Electric truck - tow vehicle of future ?
Interesting article about an electric Class 7 truck . Begs the question, are electric powered heavy duty pickups...ready for HD towing service... far behind ? Range right now is somewhat limite...
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Found this from a Jan 2017 article from consumers report:
"Apparently, the hour has arrived. Model S reliability jumped to average, which moved the performance EV into the testing agency’s “recommended” column."
So after being out how many years and having the supposedly massive advantage of a single moving part in the motor...they got up to "average" reliability.
I have some issues with consumers report and this is overall reliability so other issues beyond drive-train kick in but the Mod S is not a new model where you can chalk it up to new model bugs.
Again, I'm not suggesting electric motors (ignoring, the battery pack, battery charger, motor controllers, etc...) are not very reliable but gasoline and diesel engines are also very reliable.
"Apparently, the hour has arrived. Model S reliability jumped to average, which moved the performance EV into the testing agency’s “recommended” column."
So after being out how many years and having the supposedly massive advantage of a single moving part in the motor...they got up to "average" reliability.
I have some issues with consumers report and this is overall reliability so other issues beyond drive-train kick in but the Mod S is not a new model where you can chalk it up to new model bugs.
Again, I'm not suggesting electric motors (ignoring, the battery pack, battery charger, motor controllers, etc...) are not very reliable but gasoline and diesel engines are also very reliable.
