Electric Ford F150 towing demonstration.

SidecarFlip wrote:

BB_TX wrote:
Not pointless. In spite of all the naysayers, electric is coming on a much larger scale.

Not in my lifetime it won't and at the slight chance they did become mainstream, the grid as it now stands won't support electric vehicles for the masses. The grid needs upgraded first before plug in vehicles can become mainstream.

Putting the cart before the horse will result in disaster.

Ford's pulling the train cars is kind of misleading. For one thing all rail cars today ride on roller bearings so it don't take a lot of effort to move them (when the brakes are released) and I'm sure the trackage is perfectly level too. Might even be a bit downhill as advertising like that is usually fixed anyway.

Re the grid not handling it. I think this is more a regional issue. From what I have read from pretty much every poster on this forum as well as various news stories the US grid is more of a 3rd world affair with no hope of ever being upgraded to handle the expected 20 percent increase in capacity to handle the personal vehicle fleet changing to EV over the next few decades. Most utilities in most countries see no issue as it will be a gradual change. I don’t know what the technical issues are in the US but they seem pretty profound. It will be interesting to see how they solve the problem.

Companies like ford need to look ahead and adapt to changing laws that affect their marketplace. More provinces, states, cities, countries, regions will simply outlaw vehicles with any tailpipe emmision so they need to have an alternative market. BC and Quebec already have laws prohibiting the sale of any vehicle with any tail pipe emmision by Jan 1 2040. I think California is close and Washington as well. Europe and China are also going down this path.

China will lead followed by Northern Europe but eventually EV sales will be the majority over the next couple of decades. I don’t think any manufacturer doubts that. A test drive pretty much confirms that.