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If you want a truck for looks, EV is nice enough. If you want a truck to haul stuff, EV is terrible. Put a trailer on your EV and they have basically no range a
by hajile 4y ago
If you want a truck for looks, EV is nice enough. If you want a truck to haul stuff, EV is terrible. Put a trailer on your EV and they have basically no range at all.
If you need a truck to haul stuff reasonable distances, EV isn't for you (at least not right now). If you want to save the world, then an electric car gets much better ranges with much smaller batteries and a fraction of the power usage.
This leaves EV trucks in a "why bother?" category.
- panick21_ 4y agoMost hauling around is local, within a city or region. EV range is reasonable and actually has many advantages over ICE cars. Operating cost being a huge one. Torque being the other. And the reality is the waste majority of people simple don't drive long distances with trailers. Study after study shows how that simply not why most people buy trucks.
- zamnos 4y agoBMW's entire marketing department gets that you don't sell cars based on what the driver's actually going to use it for, but based on an emotional pull on who the driver wants to be. Trucks are no different. Studies after study can show how much people don't pull trailers, but that's not why the F150 is the US' best selling truck.
- mbgerring 4y agoThis isn’t true. I hauled a 5 ton car trailer from San Francisco to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada last year and it was a breeze. 160 miles (the range with the trailer) is not “no range at all”, and the charging network, at least here, is dense enough to deal with it.
- mbgerring 4y agoAlso, trailers with batteries are coming. This is going to be a solved problem in almost no time.