So who will be first with an electric pickup. And when.

He said the key thing that I always point out about Tesla and other exotics. If any of them actually wanted to be anywhere near environmentally friendly they would target or duplicate the characteristics of the most popular vehicles. They also wouldn't design a vehicle which can brag about zero to sixty acceleration and ridiculous top speeds. Maybe if it's designed around those points MASSES of people could afford them. It's all silliness right now.

If they also wanted to be accurate in advertising they would drop the ZERO emission BS and come up with a real rating system which actually depends on current fossil fuels as it's primary charging source. Solar is good but it's only about .6% of the power. Right now, pushing more electric vehicles onto the grid will just use more coal and natural gas.

8.1 Van wrote:

OK. One for Tesla. My guess is model Y will be out mid 2020 so 2021?? Ford isn't saying much about an electric pickup but they could technically be close to that date.

John & Angela wrote:
Ford plans US$11 billion investment for 40 electrified vehicles by 2022. Link below.

https://www.bnn.ca/ford-plans-us-11-billion-investment-for-40-electrified-vehicles-by-2022-1.968176

Your title says "electric", but the title of the link says "electrified". There is a difference between the two.

An "electric" vehicle runs solely on electric motors while "electrified" can simply have an electric motor somewhere in their drive train. Like the Jeep Wrangler's 2.0L that also uses an electric motor to move the vehicle from a stop for a short period of time(since this consumes the most fuel) and then switches to gas once it has momentum. Ford is more than likely going to have something similar on many of these 40 vehicles in this timeline, not pure electric vehicles.

Wouldn't this be more appropriate for one of those electric vehicle sites instead of a RV site?

azrving wrote:
If they also wanted to be accurate in advertising they would drop the ZERO emission BS and come up with a real rating system which actually depends on current fossil fuels as it's primary charging source. Solar is good but it's only about .6% of the power. Right now, pushing more electric vehicles onto the grid will just use more coal and natural gas.

https://www.google.com/search?q=electric+power+source+usa&rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS594US594&oq=electric+power+source+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.11375j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

About 65% of utility-scale electricity generation in the United States was produced from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), about 20% was from nuclear energy, and about 15% was from renewable energy sources in 2016: Natural gas —34% Coal —30% Nuclear—20%

troubledwaters wrote:
Wouldn't this be more appropriate for one of those electric vehicle sites instead of a RV site?

I agree. This has nothing to do with rv'ing.

troubledwaters wrote:
Wouldn't this be more appropriate for one of those electric vehicle sites instead of a RV site?

Good morning. Well, not really. This is the tow vehicle forum and thats what the thread is a about. Just an EV version. EV's make pretty good tow vehicles. I can see a nice ford silver half ton pulling an airstream. Sweet.

ShinerBock wrote:

John & Angela wrote:
Ford plans US$11 billion investment for 40 electrified vehicles by 2022. Link below.

https://www.bnn.ca/ford-plans-us-11-billion-investment-for-40-electrified-vehicles-by-2022-1.968176

Your title says "electric", but the title of the link says "electrified". There is a difference between the two.

An "electric" vehicle runs solely on electric motors while "electrified" can simply have an electric motor somewhere in their drive train. Like the Jeep Wrangler's 2.0L that also uses an electric motor to move the vehicle from a stop for a short period of time(since this consumes the most fuel) and then switches to gas once it has momentum. Ford is more than likely going to have something similar on many of these 40 vehicles in this timeline, not pure electric vehicles.

Could be but I kinda get the impression they are talking about BEV's.

John & Angela wrote:

troubledwaters wrote:
Wouldn't this be more appropriate for one of those electric vehicle sites instead of a RV site?

Good morning. Well, not really. This is the tow vehicle forum and thats what the thread is a about. Just an EV version. EV's make pretty good tow vehicles. I can see a nice ford silver half ton pulling an airstream. Sweet.

Anything less then ideal driving conditions and they can barely get 200 miles with a EV car. Now add a 8,500 lbs TT, chilly fall day with rain and you'd be lucky if you made it to the next city before you needed a charge. They are a long way off for an electric tow vehicle. Topic is way off for a RV site.