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To: Red Badger

Electric trucks are just WRONG.


3 posted on 06/18/2024 6:26:13 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: fwdude
Electric trucks are just WRONG.

For many, including me, that is true. EV trucks can't tow my boat or RV without stopping every 100-150 miles. That is unacceptable. There are places I go where I'm 40-50 miles from fuel. Probably much further from a charger.

But for a ranch truck, it might work just fine. Especially with a charging station right there at the house. When I was a kid, my uncle had a gas pump at his house with an underground tank. I'm sure plenty of ranches have one. A charging station would serve the same purpose.

The majority of pickup owners don't tow anything heavy enough to greatly reduce their range. The hardest use their truck gets is a trip to the dump, the nursery, or Home Depot, or helping a friend move.

36 posted on 06/18/2024 10:20:07 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: fwdude

“Electric trucks are just WRONG.”

Electric series hybrids like a locomotive a re perfect for trucks. You get all the zero rpm torque of an electric drive system just like a locomotive plus the unlimited range of having liquid or gaseous fuels. Add in a small high density pack and you get huge peak torque and HP, regen energy captured to double your mpg and with a plug in pack the first 40 or 50 miles of five times cheaper per mile in fuel costs. Retail kWh is five times cheaper than retail diesel fuel per mile.

When my current F250 diesel dies a noble truck death I hope Ford has a diesel electric series hybrid with a 50 mile plug in range ready for sale. Also a series hybrid can have V2G so you have 80 amps of 240V anywhere the truck goes all the time everywhere off grid. That alone is worth it for folks doing real work and truck things off grid in the oil patch or construction.


43 posted on 06/21/2024 9:50:46 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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