I’d still prefer a series hybrid with a diesel generator and half the batteries. Especially with a with a winter storm bearing down.
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Plus the hybrids can function as stand in place generators for jobsites and houses. I know their hybrid f150s can be optioned out with 7200w inverter kits that pull from either the battery or engine as needed. You know how many contractors would immediately jump on the opportunity to not have to lug around big ass gensets to multiple jobsites?
Yeah, and with a series hybrid you get all the torque benefits of a pure electric and none of the crazy transmissions of a parallel hybrid. Plus depending on the generator it might even weigh less.
Plus, half the batteries per truck means it’s cheaper.
Knowing Ford, it's gonna be awful and impossible to do maintenance on, but it can't possibly be worse than the nazi dumpster.
Prototype stage to be followed by the "Sorry, it will cost $35,000 due to {excuses}" stage.
Sorry but I think you typoed 53,000
65,000 after EV credits expire.
They expired last year.
A car with a trunk that has no lid is not a fucking pickup truck and it never will be.
I can't find other sources for that image BTW, it may not be that bad but I doubt it will be good.
Cheap EV! Forty thousand fucking dollars including a steering wheel, actual rubber tires, tax and title. What are you poor bastards waiting for?! Get in debt!
$0 down and only 120 monthly payments!
Fuck Ford after hosting Trump.
Good luck to them, but I have a feeling it will be about double that price when it exits the prototype stage and is actually being sold.
$30k for a ford. No thanks. Sell it for 12k. Look at all the EVs and UTEs in the east all go between 9-15k. No gimmicks.
I'd buy that truck over a Slate.
I was super excited for Slate during the two minute video I saw about it..
Then I found out it was an Amazon truck.
Something like that would cut down a bunch on waste due to used markets for the vehicle and attachments, but jumping into an Amazon properiyory vehicle system is ridiculously dumb.
You're at their mercy.
From my understanding, the Slate truck is financially backed by Bezos, but it is not an Amazon property. That said, it could still very well fall victim to what you're concerned about. If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me.
The details are kept incredibly private. It's impossible to know how much Bezos owns.
One of the major selling features of the Slate is their intention to make the truck as end-user repairable as possible and publish documentation and how-to videos to support that. Whether they actually follow through remains to be seen, but if they do the Slate would be one of the least locked-in proprietary vehicles ever made.
That and it comes with NOTHING. No radio, no speakers, no paint, no rims, no automatic windows.
No built-in unreplaceable head unit with bloatware or spyware or un-updatable software, no cell network or WiFi connection, no user tracking and snitching.
The lack of a built-in entertainment system computer is a good thing.
You can option all of those things except paint.
but it’s not a truck. it’s an suv with no back door
Good!
Even if you’re a climate change denier, fact is Ford has to figure out cheap EVs anyway. ICE costs pretty much bottomed out, unless you’re talking about a generator for an EV drivetrain.
Probably going to be four doors and a 4.5 foot bed, to me a decent size bed is the most important part of a truck.
i can't wait to see how someone from doug's podcast can ruin this vehicle, too.
I feel like anyone who is buying a truck will never want an electric truck and will most likely just be made fun of in all his friend groups.
I would love an electric truck, and no one in my friends group would make fun of me, because my friends aren't pieces of shit.
I want a small two door electric pickup truck that is basically the size and ride height of a hatchback but with a bed instead.
That's a ute. You can only get them in Australia, AFAIK.
Australia has electric utes now?
No, that's a pickup truck before the US bastardized them into hulking monstrosities.
I miss my S-10 sometimes. Was the perfect size for what I needed at the time.
I think that speaks more to the intelligence of trendy truck owners than it does about EVs.
i would buy an electric full bed truck tomorrow if anyone made one. fuck four doors, fuck a short bed. i need a truck to move full sheets of material.
i love my stick diesel 2500, but id go electric in a heartbeat.