CAFE stds on the chopping block
NYT Good riddance. There is no way that the average fleet mileage would ever come close to those numbers anyway. Hopefully the ethanol scam will be cut at the same time.
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agesilaus wrote:
No when I think of an electric I am thinking about a Leaf or Prius. Yes I am making these points in a US centric viewpoint. We don't have $6 a gallon gas over here and it would make for a lot of politicians being voted out of office if they tried that. I haven't seen an electric large SUV or Pickup yet. If you are out of the US you may not appreciate how many of those are on the roads here.
Yah I get that. We are in Canada and where we live is definitely truck country as well. We are well traveled though, speak several languages and have seen much of Europe and some of North Africa as well as some of Latin America. Latin America has a fair amount of trucks as well but they are smaller than what you and I are used to. We NEVER saw pickups in any of our travels to Europe other than the smaller type again. Any EV that evolves into a pickup will be developed here first but I think that is a ways away yet.
Most of the crossover EV's currently are imports, KIA Soul etc. They have only been out in the last year and are finding their market on this side of the pond. Europe has literally three times the number of models available as we do....mostly because they make more economical sense there. The Tesla model X is a nice SUV that is way out of my price range but they sell them as fast as they make them.
Both the Tesla X and the Tesla S have 4000 or 5000 pound towing capacities. Nice if you can afford it. There is talk of an under 60,000 version some year. Time will tell.
Interesting times we live in.
