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.
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.
Give him enough of my tax dollars and the great genius is sure to make money.
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.
Its not JUST politicians...
Musk is an expert at getting green liberals, (who don't understand or believe in free markets), to support what are in essence stock based pyramid schemes.
Musk starts a real company with a real product (probably with a government loan). But the company does not generate a profit. Musk will CLAIM the enterprise makes a profit with some sort of non-GAAP accounting. Musk will claim the company is slated for supernatural growth, and his worshippers will buy, buy buy, the stock regardless of fundamentals.
IF you are the first one in, you can ride the stock up and make a profit from other deluded investors who buy in after you. Musk can dilute the stock with additional offerings to raise even more money (how he paid off his stimulus $500,000,000 loan).
But the VALUE is taken from the investor - not created in the factory. So a snazzy, shiney pyramid scheme.
How are these expected to fare in high water?