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I wonder how this will impact the average car size? I would expect to see fewer big pickup trucks being used by people that don't need them in the near future?
by cinntaile 4y ago
I wonder how this will impact the average car size? I would expect to see fewer big pickup trucks being used by people that don't need them in the near future?
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoVehicles are bought and sold on longer time horizons than the shortage, diesel pickups were always somewhat of a rounding error and they kinda fell out of fashion hard about 5yr ago when emissions components got bad/numerous enough that the TCO didn't pencil out vs gas trucks. The OEMs saw this (the emissions driven increased TCO of diesel, not the shortage) coming ~10yr ago rolled out a new generation of gas engines for pickups, vas and MDTs which hit market in the last couple years so if anything this will drive a faster transition back to gasoline engines in those applications.
- willio58 4y agoElectric trucks will surely fill that gap