Posted on 08/21/2022 2:59:35 PM PDT by absalom01
These new electric pickups are wonderful towing companions, aided by massive horsepower and torque that allow for easy merging with the flow of interstate traffic, and their heavy curb weights (between 6855 pounds for the F-150 and 9640 pounds for the Hummer) lend an impressive stability when lugging a three-ton trailer. But you won't want to be going far, as a full battery will take you a mere 100 miles in the Lightning, 110 miles in the R1T, and 140 miles in the Hummer. Although the Hummer consumes electricity at the highest rate of the three, its considerably larger battery pack more than makes up for the difference.
If the vehicle with the hitch must be an EV, the tow package will need to include auxiliary power. More batteries or preferably a generator to extend range.
Excellent point. A bunch of various car companies already have EV pickups on sale, however, existing gas-powered pickup owners are totally unimpressed by all of them. They're a huge disappointment. Notice that there's one company that's been planning for more than a decade to do an EV pickup but still hasn't put one on the road yet. I'll give you 10 guesses which company that is. On second thought, I'll give you just one guess.
At least three years ago, Tesla finally announced it would put into production an EV pickup by mid-2021. Now that we're closing in on fall 2022, there's still no sign of it. Most recently, however, Tesla announced its first EV pickup will go into production in 2023 and be on the road in late 2023. So my guess is Musk intentionally delayed production because he wants to first see how all the others do with their EV pickup attempts. He's surely learning there are lots of things existing gas-powered pickup owners really don't like about the EV pickups currently on the road. There's not a single EV pickup on sale today that the pickup community likes. I suspect when Tesla finally puts out its first EV pickup, in another 1 1/2 years, it's going to totally blow away the competition. The guy builds rockets that carry U.S. astronauts to the Space Station, so he should be able to do the best EV pickup by far. (After all, it's not rocket science.)
Are there a lot of National Forest and state park campgrounds with charging stations at each campsite now?
Yup. And I’ve said it the past 10 years and counting: anything you plug into an electrical outlet is an appliance.
EVs are only practical if you live in a single-family home with your own charger and only use them to drive around town.
A tesla induction motor will blow the pistons out of your 5.3L block.
That is for sure. Took a model S for a test drive a couple of years ago, and I have to say, it's a great car. Fast, well balanced, and a beast from a dead stop. Just couldn't justify the price tag.
Or you split water with electricity from solar (to be green), and that is just a huge waste of energy.
I'm waiting for LFTRs to ride to the rescue and relegate solar and wind to the history books. Might be waiting a long time tho.
Coal- and wood-fired locomotives used to pull a car that was full of fuel.
LOL !
Add a gasoline powered generator and a 20-gallon gas tank.
Oh wait, that would kind of defeat the purpose.
/sarc
Since the trucks carry that huge batteries, they cannot be very energy efficient!
I’m looking for something new. Won’t be electric.
Our future - meet me at the charging station!
Saw that. 80 miles, LOL! Good luck towing a skip loader around town. Hey, maybe you should put a diesel generator in the bed of the pickup, you know, just in case.
Bwahahahaha...!
Inline OHV Diesel Engines?
That’s why the Left wants you in EVs. So you won’t travel. Besides, camping is for elitist white folks as we were told in the past two years.
Whzt would be cool is if you could put solar panels on the camper top or trailer top and put some extra energy into it while driving and during the day.
This is the next phase of these, there are companies already getting ready with cars whose surfaces are covered in conforming solar panels.
I was being a little sarcastic. But not by much
One EVguy more or less stated how fast and quiet the cats are and that anyone that doesn’t convert is a deplorable, knuckledragger.
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