MotorTrend F150 Lightning Tow Test

way2roll wrote:

dodge guy wrote:
The ICE is only 120 years old. That’s still new technology in the grand scheme of things. To introduce a new type of power will take another 100 years to perfect. Until then you can not mandate something that is only effective for 20% of the population!

I am not an advocate for EV's - mainly because they aren't really the green silver bullet the hype would have us to believe.

But I think you have it backwards, I think they are not effective for 20% of the population but a very viable product for the other 80%. Most people don't tow or haul big loads, or even go 100 miles/day.

And last I heard, no one is mandating anything.

If it were viable for 80% of the population then there would be far more on the road! As a road trip vehicle even not towing, the time it takes to stop and charge makes them unattractive.

Maybe not mandating it, but when the government wants a certain percentage of vehicles to be electric by a certain time then that is mandating it with out actually mandating it!