BCSnob wrote:
How many threads have there been on people looking for 1/2 tons that can be daily drivers (commuting vehicles) and tow on the weekends to local CGs? This truck seems like it could fit that market. Most of these people won’t be towing the Ike Gauntlet on the weekends.
True story, and over on the E Coast where you could drive through 6 different states in a day and not even put 300 miles on your car, most of your "destinations" are much closer to your own front door and that magical "cheap" fuel.
Here, I make a 300+ mile "commute" one way every week, takes 'bout 4 hours, including the time to stop n re-fill my dinosaur burner.
So yes, EV's are still decidedly better suited for short or shorter trips and not well suited for towing.
Thus, they have their place and are currently (no pun intended) cheaper to "fuel" if you don't value your time, or you can plug it in, snug as a bug in your garage every night.
But unlike ICE powered vehicles which are equally at home in the wide open spaces of the majority of our country (geographically speaking) and the crowded places where you can smell when your next door neighbor farts, EVs are not, unless you don't value your time very much.
Take the same example, you used about the "local" campers. Now mom n kids want to go to Disney in March and see Mt Rushmore and Yellowstone this summer since you have a sweet camper. Both of those trips are still virtual, no realistic, non starters with an EV tow rig.
