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OK one last time... A price is determined by the interaction of supply and demand. Buyers and sellers negotiate based on their willingness to pay, and willingness to accept, a certain amount for the item. A market equilibrium price is not determined by cost of producing the item.

This is self-contradictory.

The bargaining happens over time. Price too low? -> You left money on the table -> Raise price Price too high? -> Product doesn't move -> Lower price Repeating for emphasis: Price is determined by what people will pay, not cost of goods sold. It's more complicated than than for an option like...

Cost doesn't determine price, what people are willing to pay does.

Noticed that. Also wondering why the clamp is there.

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Does advice like this depend on battery chemistry? I think it may. The Slate truck will have nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cells.

Somehow I have the impression that the Extended Battery option adds 300 pounds. Do we know how much weight it adds?

👆 the "Buy Once, Cry Once" perspective.

The $4,000 is a speculative estimate for the upgrade price.

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This. Much preference for the windows to roll all the way down.

"Just top it off" is almost certainly your answer. NMC batteries are made for frequent partial charging. They don't have Memory Effect properties. Consider this: Regenerative Braking does a lot of micro-charging. I don't think regen is harmful to the battery.

Good point. 100% certain it's something (because physics), but possibly negligible. There are other tradeoffs. Lower payload capacity, obviously. Acceleration, braking and handling are affected, also because physics.

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From a cost-of-ownership perspective the price is more than what you pay up front. Hauling around an extra few hundred pounds of batteries everywhere you go requires some extra energy per mile.

Current BatStats from the Crowdsourced Reservation List, FWIW 🤔:

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To extend or not to extend? Good question! Especially considering the Extended Battery can't be retrofitted. Your Range May Vary. In fact it certainly will vary, so one question is "by how much"? What differences does the Extended Battery bring with it? Some of them might not be obvious...