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1 posted on 08/21/2022 2:59:35 PM PDT by absalom01
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Dang it, posted the URL in the comment section.

Here it is again:

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a40896618/ev-pickups-towing-test-hummer-rivian-lightning/


2 posted on 08/21/2022 3:00:20 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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The review
3 posted on 08/21/2022 3:01:49 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Youtube video has guys driving a lightning with a bed camper. Got 80 miles before running out of juice. They were testing for distance.


4 posted on 08/21/2022 3:02:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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When EV’s are mandatory there won’t be many campers anymore. That’ll put a huge dent in tourism, especially in the West where a lot of people rent them for vacation.


5 posted on 08/21/2022 3:02:35 PM PDT by packagingguy
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im guessing its not good

why not just widen the roads so they can really make competitive evs?


6 posted on 08/21/2022 3:03:31 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go? if you see it please call someone else. i was tired of it.)
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In before the EVnistas claiming you’ll love playing frisbee and walking your dog for the 8 hours it takes to charge your EV truck.


8 posted on 08/21/2022 3:04:33 PM PDT by moovova
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Let’s see...I towed my 14000 lb fifth wheel 400 miles today and will tow it 350 tomorrow on my way home to Alabama. Don’t think any any of those could handle it.


10 posted on 08/21/2022 3:09:34 PM PDT by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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100 miles won’t get most to the lake and back with a boat.


11 posted on 08/21/2022 3:11:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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They’re an outstanding solution for towing a camper around the metro area!

Lose the house and live in the camper because you won’t be able to afford anything else.


12 posted on 08/21/2022 3:12:43 PM PDT by glorgau
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Until an electric pickup can go 300+ miles loaded, it ain’t ready for consumers. I’ll stick to my 3/4 ton with diesel engine, thanks.


15 posted on 08/21/2022 3:15:27 PM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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But you won't want to be going far

That's the idea...Create chaos in every direction, restrict travel by forcing people to buy electrical power sucking EV's to put additional load on an outdated power grid.

17 posted on 08/21/2022 3:17:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Gomer Pyle getting out of the Wally’s Garage tow truck:
“I got a gallon gas can but we don’t get many of these electric truck break downs. I can tow you back to Wally’s and you can stay at the hotel overnight until maybe tomorrow afternoon when your recharge is all done. We only got the slow charge kind in Mayberry. Behind Floyd’s Barber Shop. Sorta goes along with our slowed down easygoing life. We like it.”


18 posted on 08/21/2022 3:20:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Maybe they can pull a third trailer that is a battery.


20 posted on 08/21/2022 3:21:13 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Couple Towed Trailer Behind $80,000 Electric Truck, Had to Stop Every 100 Miles on 2,700-Mile Trip

https://www.westernjournal.com/couple-towed-trailer-behind-80000-electric-truck-stop-every-100-miles-2700-mile-trip/

But don’t worry everyone, someone that goes by TexasGator, will Don be on here to provide stats and specs that none cars about in an attempt to prove that EVs will save the world, cure cancer, House the homeless, seal the border and feed the hungry.

All while people recharge their toy cars with the solar panels on their roofs.

Have the investment portfolios of Al the government fills pushing this bs been looked shy lately?


21 posted on 08/21/2022 3:21:14 PM PDT by qaz123
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Without a tremendous technological revolution, I can’t see EV’s being anywhere near practical without a universal power source being at-the-ready at power stations…quick change standardized batteries. Or a mini-reactor power source.


22 posted on 08/21/2022 3:22:08 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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The cost of the tires are $250 a piece and with the battery weight you will be buying more tires. Since only rich people can buy electric boondoggle machines then the cost of new tires is nothing to them.


26 posted on 08/21/2022 3:24:06 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Sorry guys.

You’ll have to tow your camper or boat behind a municipal bus. Check the schedules far in advance.


29 posted on 08/21/2022 3:27:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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The only EV I would buy is a Hyundai Kona. Some FReeper lay $35000 on me and I will buy one.

Very good Australian car man reviews the Kona EV>>>
Living with Hyundai Kona Electric EV (& ritual suicide) | Auto Expert John Cadogan
201,689 views Aug 26, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39ALqowjf0


32 posted on 08/21/2022 3:30:03 PM PDT by dennisw
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EVs - government flips off the power switch and you go nowhere.

Gasoline - easy to acquire, store, and carry. You go anywhere you choose.

Choose wisely.


33 posted on 08/21/2022 3:33:33 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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Electric trucks are like having phone sex with a blow up doll. Just ain’t like the real thing.


35 posted on 08/21/2022 3:35:38 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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