ksss wrote:
Technology is going to need keep improving dramatically to make a pickup that tows a practical purchase. Power certainly isn't issue, but batteries and charging certainly is an issue and will continue to be one for some time. Likely most here can remember when computers became a practical home purchase, you could buy the great computer at Best Buy and it was obsolete before you made it home. I suspect this will be the situation here as well. Unless you dont pull anything to speak of, buying one of these initial release EV pickups will very quickly be obsolete as the tech gets better and better.
This pull demonstrates the limitations pretty clearly. You would need to top off the charge on your truck off before you started up the hill, then recharge once you got to the top, assuming that capability exists. When you put all of that together, it could take you half a day to get to the top of hill and able to continue on your drive. That is not practical. While this is a steep climb, there are many climbs in the USA that would also create a similar issue. Plenty of work to do here.
I can remember hauling a wrecked Harley over that hump in a Chevy about the same era as that Ford. I-6, carburetor, and 3 speed. And look how IC had been evolving before that pickup was built.
specta wrote:
Electric vehicles are going to save the planet just like plastic bags and plastic straws did.
You are right. We have been denying the need for change for so long, getting such a late start, the only real chance is to return to the
NEED for transportation we had in late 1800s
