Posted on 09/27/2022 12:00:23 PM PDT by rktman
(I'm just the poster, not the tester)
A YouTuber with 1.4 million followers attempted to tow a 1930 Ford Model A truck with his brand new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, but it ended in “a complete and total disaster.” “If a truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles — that is ridiculously stupid,” Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover says in his video. “This truck can’t do normal truck things. You would be stopping every hour to recharge, which would take about 45 minutes a pop, and that is absolutely not practical.”
“This is my new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck,” YouTuber Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover said in a video in which he tests the electric truck’s towing capabilities, which resulted in “a complete and total disaster.”
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Evil Diesel Rolling Coal Band.🤔
...but it isn’t a technological issue. Expensive energy is by policy. It’s an inevitable conclusion that EV’s will continue to improve and meet more and more applications. There’s nothing wrong with electric propulsion, in fact the torque is extreme. Batteries will improve, the only problem is woke politicians vs our desire for cheap, abundant, and reliable electricity. Even without EV’s this is the enabler of our high standard of living. Hopefully we get to watch the EU energy disaster and learn from it before it happens here.
It seems many FR’s hate them only because they’re part of a lefty agenda. While that is the case, I welcome the option....so long as it is an option in a free market.
Hahahahahahaha!
This sounds like a business opportunity, FRiend!
A lot,plus a biiig battery bank and a small fortune to buy all that.🙄
“What is ‘dreaming’ about that?”
The whole concept of all electric cars is a fantasy dream. Even the reason why is a lie. Producing the electricity for all this will create the same damage to the environment. And there will just never be enough power to make it happen... They are already having trouble keeping the lights and A/C on now...
Just never going to happen period. It amazes me how many are daft enough to ever think it will work.
> build induction chargers into the roads
That is a big national) infrastructure project, requiring there to be something like a “we,” societally. “We” is (are?) disappearing.
Something a bit more independent and locally (no bigger scope than one US state, pending a new federation) produced is wanted.
> It amazes me how many are daft enough to ever think it will work.
You will find that the most confident people about “new” and future “technology” are NOT the ones who have EVER experimented, built, fixed, designed anything.
> small fortune
Fortune indeed to convince the sun to shine everywhere all the time.
“Okay, perhaps a Tomcat taking off in full afterburner …”
Check out the sound F4 on YouTube. Wow.
cool info. thank you.
Hehehehe...I LOVE me some J-79 engines in full throat!
Boy, did I ever love those Phantoms...:)
Big trails of black smoke and an ear-splitting din!
There were a few who tried it, and the big three, the oil companies, and the government shut them right down immediately. It was obvious the powers that be truly did not want fuel mileage and fewer emissions. Ask tucker how hard it was to produce a new line of autos, beginning with government approval. And of course the government is paid off by the lobbyists not to approve a new line and maker.
If I was a billionaire I would!!! Like yesterday! It would be the new beetle craze all over again!
You have to start with a large fortune first.😏
Well, you clearly failed to notice that my original comment was not calling for all electric, or all gas vehicles.
I was suggesting that the future might be a hybrid that uses electric for acceleration (which is where you use the most gas) and the gas to cruise (where you waste the most electricity)
But I am not calling for or demanding any of that.
Is it possible to explain this any more clearly to you? Or are you ‘daft’
And as near as I can tell, he doesn’t even own an EV.
A small turbine engine running a generator to charge a moderate battery bank.
The turbine can run at it’s most efficient speed and can run off most any liquid fuel.🤔
“You will find that the most confident people about “new” and future “technology” are NOT the ones who have EVER experimented, built, fixed, designed anything.”
Before even starting to build anything there is the sticky issue of even ever having enough electricity to power both homes, businesses, and ALL the electric vehicles.
It is total fiction not at all based in reality. right off the top is is just never going to work period.
Hybrids do work. But those who are bolstering and supporting the “all electric” concept because they are buying them are helping advance this mandatory all electric concept. They are helping send us over the edge of the abyss by financially supporting this pipe dream.
I will myself defend Hybrids that need no batteries, but the idea of all electric is never going to work period.
EV’s are great commuter cars.
EV trucks CAN tow but not far. So why buy one if you need to tow???
The only people that could use an EV pickup are homeowners that get stuff from Lowes or Home Depot and back home. Or local delivery folks.
The most ridiculous thing is the Ford ad claiming to use the truck to keep your house electricity going from the battery in a power outage.
Yeah, for about 20 minutes and risking the life of an expensive battery.
And I own an EV.
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