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How do you even make an electric car that can't drive? Electric drivetrains are way, way simpler than ICE ones...

• SoftTalker 2y ago
  No they aren't. We've been making ICE vehicles for 100 years. The drivetrains are well understood and don't present any technical hurdles. Especially in trucks. EV heavy trucks are still pretty uncharted territory.
  • dismalaf 2y ago
    There were literally electric cars 140 years ago. Getting enough energy density in a battery is a definite technological problem that's difficult, but making a car move with an electric motor isn't.
• cheema33 2y ago
  > How do you even make an electric car that can't drive? The "pusher" truck was not supposed to be EV. It was supposed to be a Hydrogen truck. In reality it was neither.
• immibis 2y ago
  Reality has a surprising amount of detail: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-... I have no doubt it's entirely possible to make an electric truck, but you still have to spend a year in the trenches actually doing it and solving all the little design problems before you have something to show off. Especially if you weren't previously making ICE trucks. Then you have to learn how to make a truck from scratch, instead of just the new electric parts. You can of course buy an ICE truck and convert it for your prototype, which I think is what Edison Motors did, but then you'll be showing off a rusty old truck that won't get any venture capital or journalist attention because it's nowhere near shiny enough.