Posted on 11/18/2013 8:44:30 AM PST by jazusamo
Nope, it won’t work. Maybe around southern engineer-geeks, but most rednecks aren’t going to be curious about a limited distance vehicle.
Business Insider is the faux lefty WSJ version of The Daily Beast.
Yup, an electric truck’ll do the trick.
Loaded range of - optimistically - 50 miles.
That’s the ticket.
But of course, since science is not a friend (or even a distance acquaintance) of the Obamadork or his Clown Show of West Wing Felon/Cretins, Musk will pull it off.
(Not to say I wouldn’t like an electric car...but battery technology and power grid capacity just ain’t hacking it for the next few years.)
“Musk’s name often goes hand in hand with descriptive monikers like “visionary” and “genius”.”
His company is named after the genius.
Heard they just opened a dealership in Tysons corner outside DC.
I couldn’t agree more, pickup truck buyers won’t go for the electric enviro prestige thing.
Several manufacturers, including GMC/Chevrolet and Dodge, already have hybrid pickup trucks. Idiots.
Musk and all of his cronies should be locked up for life for their crimes against the Earth’s natural resources.
Using the world’s scant supply of lithium for such a feckless and foolish use as an electric automobile is the highest possible crime.
They’re putting a store here in Indianapolis also.
My buddy’s daughter had to go to Chicago to purchase hers earlier this year.
They delivered it to her door on a transporter.
She had to have a body panel repaired, they sent a transporter to take it to Dayton, Oh and back.
That costs big $$.
A modern diesel engine is more efficient and “envirofriendly” than these electric POSs.
Give him enough of my tax dollars and the great genius is sure to make money.
Electric motors have incredible torque but batteries are heavy and slow to charge
Nat gas electric hybrids make sense. Or just straight nat gas
Nat gas is like 60c per therm and gas is like 3.50gal which is like 5x as much
Also we produce nat gas. No Saudi islamonazis funding
But the musk guy is obsessed with himself
I worked briefly for his nephews at solar city. Same thing All about themselves. Not the client
But of course if you have millions in free guvmint $ you don’t have to have scruples or business sense
You just have to be a lib
I learned long ago that life isn’t fair. But the good guys generally win in the end Just takes awhile
Remember that the lies fly around the world while the TRuth is still getting its boots on
Ford is now offering a F-150 with a turbocharged V6 that has an 11,300 lbs towing capacity.
http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/specifications/towing/
Torque of 420 @ 2500 rpm.
http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/specifications/
Good luck competing with that and keeping any range.
Volt is a hybrid, with gasoline tank onboard, gasoline engine, etc.
IOW not limited range. Like a Prius.
Business Insider is well named.
They’ll give you “the business” deep inside as you bend over.
Well said, that's what pickups are all about.
Thanks for the links.
>> “Ford is now offering a F-150 with a turbocharged V6 that has an 11,300 lbs towing capacity.” <<
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Wow!
That translates to a 16,000 lbs GVW on a v6.
It’ll never work around here.
You cannot put twin Glass Packed Mufflers on an electric vehicle.
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