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At current prices I pay approx $85 to fill my F250. I typically tow around 6k lbs and get 9-11mpg in town. Most days I travel 6-20 miles per trip so I figure the CT will save me a bit in fuel.

IMHO the cyber truck isn't worth it. Even if everything is optimum from you to have an EV (i.e. you don't live in cold weather, you have cheap and dependable power perhaps with solar), you don't drive enough miles for the gas savings to be worth it.
20 miles per trip, divided by 10mpg = 2 gallons per trip. For me that's $3.29 per gallon of gas, which is close to $7 per trip. Even if your truck was about to give up the ghost and you were in the market for buying another truck anyway, so let's say the decision to get the CT costs you $20,000 more than a comparable ICE truck. That means it'll take 2,857 trips to make up for the up front extra for the CT. And that assumes, 1) your power is free, 2) you're paying cash instead of making car payments. If you're making car payments then you're paying interest on the extra $20K for buying the CT, which means more trips before the gas savings offsets the cost. Then there's the extra for your car insurance.

My wife and I own an EV car and an ICE pickup. The EV car works well for our driving habits and such. But we've put 26K miles on it the first year we've owned it. Plus, we have plenty of solar for our home, and by not having to charge the EV every day (because the range of the EV far exceeds our normal driving per day), it allows me to usually pick sunny days to charge the EV. Not always, but usually. Thus the EV math works for us. But very few people are in a situation like that. I think everybody should be wise and open to various purchase decisions (i.e. us conservatives be open to solar and/or EV in case it might suit us especially in the deep south where those work better). But think long and hard before you go there because for most people it's not worth it.