Thanks for sharing, I had heard about the interview but had not seen it.
Lots of interesting info. I had to admire the way they dodged most of the really important info gracefully. There is more than what has been shared before so it's still containing helpful tidbits.
Interesting about the 48V, I kind of assumed that it was dropped as I had not heard a lot of buzz around the 48V system that was supposed to be the LV system in the Cybertruck. I figured they would have been hyping it up if it was going to production. It is incredibly hard to break away from the 12/24V infrastructure that already exists because the tooling costs make it not worth developing the 48V items.
For the backup camera, its mostly just helpful to make sure you are lined up to attach to the trailer. It would be helpful to be able to see behind the trailer just to ensure there is no hidden object, but you learn how to back up pretty quickly. It's something people always ask to automate, and it's like by the time you have a CDL you are pretty good at it and it's really not something you wish you had. Sometimes things get a bit hairy so it would be nice then, but I think a backup camera would get used a lot less than an average person suspects.
If the battery is in the 800-1000V range, do you think it's like 850 nominal? Always seemed weird to me to want to go to 1000V nominal as in most cases it would require you to make your electronics capable of a higher voltage level which would be expensive and much less established just to be a hair over the threshold. Current generation electronics for CEVs have a 1250V max voltage and you want some buffer. If you go over the threshold, might as well go to 1500V
I suppose its good marketing to use max voltage versus the common nominal voltage so it sounds cooler!
