According to Ford, a fully depleted battery takes less than 3 hours to charge using a 220V charger, and 7 hours with a dropcord plugged into to a household wall socket, hillbilly style.
"Pre-premiere chatter helps, but if that doesn't eventually translate into sizable ratings ... the traditional multi-camera manner in which the show is shot could drop in demand to the level of a cord phone, " he wrote.