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I just came back from a road trip to the US. It seems a lot of people there drive insanely big pickup trucks for no other reason than fancying big stuff. I wond
by yodsanklai 3y ago
I just came back from a road trip to the US. It seems a lot of people there drive insanely big pickup trucks for no other reason than fancying big stuff. I wonder how EVs fit into that picture. Are we talking very big electric cars or are we expecting them to transition to small + electric at the same time?
Actually, even in Europe, cars are getting bigger and bigger. SUVs are very much on the rise, and small cars are getting bigger too.
It's not so much a technical issue than consumer preferences at that stage. Without financiary incentives, I don't see consumers shifting to small/EVs cars
- colechristensen 3y agoThe F150 Lightning sold so well they stopped taking preorders because the production was fully booked for more than a year. There will certainly be holdouts but folks that want huge vehicles will still get them but electric. Nothing but cost prevents big electric cars, and those gas trucks already often cost 60k+
- alephnerd 3y ago> lot of people there drive insanely big pickup trucks Depends on the region. By just solely concentrating on drivers in urban areas like the Bay Area, LA-SD Metro, Mid-Atlantic, and Chicagoland you can make a large enough dent to impact emissions. Most of these metropolitan areas are a good fit for electric cars, and in some of these (Bay Area and DMV) around 20-30% of the cars I'd see are Teslas alone. In general, a road trip within the US won't be a representative slice of the US as most of the population is concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic (Boston, NYC, DC), California (LA, SD, Sacramento, Bay Area), Chicagoland, and Texas (Austin, DFW, Houston).
- jes5199 3y agoI think there must be a cost-per-kwh where big trucks just get big batteries, and fast chargers get fast enough to push them. but we don’t seem to have hit that yet