[ProtectOurFreedom]

It appears that grille manufacturers have a serious production supply problem. Or have the grille manufacturers gone bankrupt?

[moovova]

Seriously...I’d miss cleaning bugs outta the grill. That’s the highlight of washing a vehicle.

[House Atreides]

“ It appears that grille manufacturers have a serious production supply problem. Or have the grille manufacturers gone bankrupt?”
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Neither. That’s a COVID-19 mask on the truck’s grille. /sarc

[protoconservative]

It appears that grille manufacturers have a serious production supply problem.

It is aero fronk lid now. For what they are, chassis for lightweight service haulers that never leave a zip code being shaped like a 1973 Checy Sports Van with zero need for aero over 50mps. None are going to work the west texas oil fields where all day AC is a reqirement so need for huge airflow. Or be mounted with a M2A as a technical and patrol sandbox highways, so what does it matter, it is bigger than normal golf cart to move the half dozen 5 gallon buckets of stuff, or it is bid out for the USPO contract where 100 miles per day is the contracted limit. That it has an 120V 20A UPS outlet for power is awsome for alot of applications. For 35 Grand it would be great. At 90 Grand it would need to be a tax play on personal income taxes.

A gasoline or desile powered AC that fits in the bed might end up being the number 1 upgrade for service trucks that are mobile offices and break rooms.

[Tell It Right]

The idea is that in an EV, a grill does nothing but increase drag. An EV has no radiator to cool by having air come in like an ICE car does. To be fair, EV's do have some ventilation for some cooling, but not nearly as much as an ICE car does.

So EV car makers are looking for creative ways to make the grill disappear. Truck owners all made fun of Tesla's cyber truck having no grill-shaped front end (the idea being to have an angular shape to cut through the air better), which made the cyber truck look nothing like a truck. Thus other EV truck makers are trying to make their truck have a pickup-truck looking front end (which means a flat space on the front where the grill would be), but at the same time not be a real grill catching a bunch of air (and thus increasing drag, which reduces range).