With any Tech heavy purchase, you buy it and don’t look back otherwise regret sets in shortly after no matter when you pull the trigger. Temporal separation between my purchases are so long that size of the improvement makes it difficult to regret.
I'd have to check again, but I'm pretty sure they are still using the 18650s for the S/X. Basically, they are getting their hands on every battery they have the capacity to use. They're not going to omit a reasonable supply of cells b/c the other cells simply can't be made fast enough. Battery cells are their largest production bottleneck.
Bear in mind, any new car as soon as you drive it off the lot loses value. Cars are not generally equitable investments (like a home). If you buy a 50,000 Mercedes or BMW you wont sell it for 50k 3 years later
Cast iron and cast stainless are typically cast in a casting media (think sand), not a casting press. I am positive this means the Cybertruck subframe will be aluminum. Not good news on my opinion.
What do you mean look back? They are antiquated now.
That is always the case with technology. If you wait, you could wait forever with the same rationale.
That's certainly plausible. My plan is to not worry about the underpinned magic too much. The only vehicles I know are using them are the S/X. So worst case we *could* get 2170s. The 3/Y models appear to do very well on those with charging, efficiency, and longevity. Personally, I'm good with that if it happens, but I still hope we get the 4680s.
Same form factor but different chemistries, but I would not call some chemistries crappier than others, like LiFePo batteries have some advantages over NCA.
