Speaking from personal experience, my daily commute is about 16km each way and takes 25-30min, and for the most part the seat is comfortable enough for the kind of riding you’re gonna be doing on a CE04. I have done a few longer rides on it and the seat is a little on the firm side once you get past that sort of 45min-1hr mark but not cripplingly so. As for the battery, it’s one monolithic module to my understanding, as it’s actually one module of 11 that makes up the pack from a BMW iX, just configured slightly differently to bring up the overall pack voltage. There hasn’t been any price discussions yet because in most markets, they won’t be hitting warranty expiry for at least another 2 years (for bikes sold early on) or 4-5yrs (for bikes sold after BMW Group upped their warranties across the board).

Unionisation in Sweden (and frankly most countries outside of the US) is not done per-business, it’s done per-industry, and you are able to freely join a union for the industry you work in regardless of your employer’s opinion. The striking employees are already unionised, and the strike is over Tesla’s failure to sign on to collective bargaining agreements (like every other automaker in Sweden has) that guarantee certain entitlements like minimum wages, holidays and other things. The striking employees are part of IF Metall, a union that covers metalworkers, mechanics and the like, thus the opinions of any worker at Tesla in Sweden who is not in those industries is completely irrelevant, because the CBA in question does not cover them.

It’s pretty much just the BMW CE04 for the time being, it doesn’t really have any direct scooter competitors in NA, just electric motorcycles like the Zeros. It is extremely well built though, it reaps the benefits of BMW making a bunch of other motorcycles in terms of fit and finish.