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I don't think it's ideal for towing 10,000 pounds 80 miles, but it could do it, I think.  

It would take a while to recharge of course.

I think that truck is fascinating, the first EV I've seen that may make sense for quite a few folks out there, the cost is not so extreme apparently.

At some point as this becomes more prevalent, boat docks will have fast chargers.  So will McDonalds etc.  I don't think towing a large RV is going to be an EV thing for a long time, but towing a boat 80 miles looks plausible.

My main point is for a lot of normal F150 use, this Lightning could be a very good option, not all obviously, but a lot, maybe half or more.

We have two fast chargers at our building now, I occasionally see a car hooked up.  I could seriously consider an EV now, but the price doesn't work for me, yet.

The price of the Lightning is competitive I think.  Consider someone who uses a normal F150 for work and whether they could use the L.

For serious towing, the often mentioned 250(0) with a hybrid turbo diesel would fit the bill nicely, perhaps a plugin that could manage ten miles on batteries, and have a 110 outlet like the Lightning and regen braking.

I rarely tow the boat more than 50 or 60 miles one-way.  But how's the tow vehicle going to charge while I'm on the lake and it's parked at a boat ramp or a campground and not a service station or my home?

I regularly tow the RV up to 350 miles in a day.  An EV tow vehicle is a complete non-starter for that use case, and likely will be for a very long time.

Assuming the vehicle gets half the range while towing it will just have to wait until they can make very large batteries more affordable and the charging time for these batteries comes down. 

Unless someone invents a battery chemistry with a much higher energy desnsity. 

Battery technology has advanced quite a bit in the past 20-40 years.

But it's still basically stone-age relative to the advancements in CPUs/ICs/silicon over the same period.

Since you’re in that industry, and by some extent have exposure to lithium battery tech and pricing....where do you see it heading?  Massive innovation?  Limited by chemistry and physics?  

Myself I see small gains in energy density, large drops in cost, modest gains in charge times.  

it’s possible something may prove superior to lithium tech, but for the next 20+ years it’s going to rule. 

What we have seen to date is of course suggestive of what we will see in the future, but we can't know.

I attended an interesting all day seminar on batteries back in the day, 1995 or so, as our company had bought Duracell and they wanted to get suggestions from our group.  I remember the challenge of packing energy stably into a small affordable package.  It has some apparent inherent limits.  You can theorize of course packing more energy in chemically, but stability becomes a problem (and these were not rechargeable).  And forget about cost, they wanted a Super AA battery at even triple the current cost.

There were some interesting suggestions from the crowd (none from me).  None of them were practicable.  Electrochemistry is pretty well worked out, folks in that area know the potential (ha) couples one can envision, and the problems with each.  Making it rechargeable is one of the key issues.

Is there a breakthrough out there?  Double or triple power density?  Maybe, I tend to doubt it.  Lower cost and faster recharging?  Probably.  Better packaging?  Almost certainly.  I don't know to what extent the current batteries are integrated into the frames, I'm sure it's a lot, but probably suboptimal.

This may be a stupid question, but I have the luxury of not being held in high esteem:
You know how they have chargers for phones that you just set the phone on the item?  Could that be a parking space charger for a car?  Beyond the "no, cars aren't phones" facepalm, would that same tech work on a car?
If your EV is being charged when parked at home, work, Target, and the hotel you're staying at, maybe that would be a good thing.