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No one would buy an ICE truck that can only tow something 100 miles.

• toomuchtodo 4y ago
  Most people who own a half ton truck never tow or leave pavement. The vehicles are garage/pavement queens.
  • MerelyMortal 4y ago
    Source for claim?
    • toomuchtodo 4y ago
      https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz... > Truck owners might protest that they are slightly less likely than owners of other categories to use their vehicle as primary transport (83% vs. 95%), limiting the miles and gallons. And they might also protest that trucks provide capabilities that other vehicles lack. But, as it turns out, a significant portion of truck owners never use their trucks for these capabilities. According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less. > So what do people actually like about trucks? According to Edwards, the answer is counterintuitive. Truck drivers use their trucks very much like other car owners: for commuting to and from work, presumably alone. The thing that most distinguishes truck owners from those of other vehicles is their sheer love of driving. “The highest indexed use among truck owners is pleasure driving,” says Edwards. Truck drivers use their vehicles this way fully twice as often as the industry average. “This is the freedom that trucks offer,” says Edwards. > “When asked for attributes that are important to them,” Edwards says, “truck owners oversample in ones like: the ability to outperform others, to look good while driving, to present a tough image, to have their car act as extension of their personality, and to stand out in a crowd.” Trucks deliver on all of that. At a price.
      • MerelyMortal 4y ago
        Nothing in the text you quoted proves your claim: You wrote 50+% = 0 whereas the text you quoted says 70% ≤ 1 You also added a bunch of other text unrelated to your claim. Dislike of something does not turn opinion into fact.
        • toomuchtodo 4y ago
          Doesn’t bother me at all. I provided a citation showing how little trucks are used for truck use cases, demonstrating that electric trucks would be fine for the consumers of these vehicles. Your dislike of the citation doesn’t make the data not exist. If they want to keep paying current petroleum prices to drive their combustion trucks, by all means, proceed. Not my household budget.
          • MerelyMortal 4y ago
            It doesn't bother you at all that you're spreading misinformation, that you value opinions over facts?
  • throwaway0a5e 4y ago
    And how many hours has the rear seat of your Tesla had an ass on it let alone the middle one? The proliferation of 3-row SUVs for 2-child households and fullsize trucks for people who haul a bag of mulch is pretty much a direct result of the fact that for a long time people of a certain bent have hand wrung real hard every time they saw someone trying to get 11/10ths out of a vehicle the one time every few months they had the need. If you want to see people buy the car they "need" then you (you specifically, but also plurally, there's a ton of people here who need to hear this) need to have the self control to hold your tongue when you see kids double buckled, someone at the home improvement store loading a stupid amount of bricks into a car, small SUVs and trucks towing big things, and all those other rare but not that rare edge case that people base their vehicle purchasing decisions around wanting to have enough vehicle for. The reason people who can afford to by more vehicle than they need is because you have stigmatized pressing a vehicle into occasional service doing things that it is uncomfortably small for.
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