I’d still prefer a series hybrid with a diesel generator and half the batteries. Especially with a with a winter storm bearing down.
Plus the hybrids can function as stand in place generators for jobsites and houses. I know their hybrid f150s can be optioned out with 7200w inverter kits that pull from either the battery or engine as needed. You know how many contractors would immediately jump on the opportunity to not have to lug around big ass gensets to multiple jobsites?
Yeah, and with a series hybrid you get all the torque benefits of a pure electric and none of the crazy transmissions of a parallel hybrid. Plus depending on the generator it might even weigh less.
Plus, half the batteries per truck means it’s cheaper.
Knowing Ford, it’s gonna be awful and impossible to do maintenance on, but it can’t possibly be worse than the nazi dumpster.
Prototype stage to be followed by the “Sorry, it will cost $35,000 due to {excuses}” stage.
Sorry but I think you typoed 53,000
65,000 after EV credits expire.
They expired last year.
A car with a trunk that has no lid is not a fucking pickup truck and it never will be.
I can’t find other sources for that image BTW, it may not be that bad but I doubt it will be good.
Good luck to them, but I have a feeling it will be about double that price when it exits the prototype stage and is actually being sold.
Cheap EV! Forty thousand fucking dollars including a steering wheel, actual rubber tires, tax and title. What are you poor bastards waiting for?! Get in debt!
$0 down and only 120 monthly payments!
Fuck Ford after hosting Trump.
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Probably because they don’t sell very well. At least, they don’t at the dealers I have worked at in South California. Which is like, EV capitol of the world.
Hyundai/Kia, Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler, Jaguar, Land Rover, etc, all couldn’t hit their sales marks on EVs consistently each month, so they inventoried less of them and they usually sat until they were a year or two old and they got discounted. Unless its a Tesla, people just aren’t buying EVs in the volume necessary to justify the dealers liking them. Plus, working on them requires extra safety equipment and training, which costs more money but the manufacturer does not pay or reimburse for any of that.
Unless they start getting these costs down by leaning into it, shit ain’t gonna work.
They also are just making the same fucking suv that nobody wants over and over.
The dealerships are actively trying NOT to sell them.
I’d buy that truck over a Slate.
but it’s not a truck. it’s an suv with no back door
$30k for a ford. No thanks. Sell it for 12k. Look at all the EVs and UTEs in the east all go between 9-15k. No gimmicks.
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Or cars: technically, everything they do now are trucks. A legal distinction, but one that matters, as trucks are allowed to be less safe and pollute a lot more.
It’s literally them skirting safety regulations. That’s not weird. That’s the American way.
Good!
Even if you’re a climate change denier, fact is Ford has to figure out cheap EVs anyway. ICE costs pretty much bottomed out, unless you’re talking about a generator for an EV drivetrain.
Probably going to be four doors and a 4.5 foot bed, to me a decent size bed is the most important part of a truck.
i can’t wait to see how someone from doug’s podcast can ruin this vehicle, too.
I feel like anyone who is buying a truck will never want an electric truck and will most likely just be made fun of in all his friend groups.
I would love an electric truck, and no one in my friends group would make fun of me, because my friends aren’t pieces of shit.
I want a small two door electric pickup truck that is basically the size and ride height of a hatchback but with a bed instead.
That’s a ute. You can only get them in Australia, AFAIK.
No, that’s a pickup truck before the US bastardized them into hulking monstrosities.
Australia has electric utes now?
I miss my S-10 sometimes. Was the perfect size for what I needed at the time.
I think that speaks more to the intelligence of trendy truck owners than it does about EVs.
i would buy an electric full bed truck tomorrow if anyone made one. fuck four doors, fuck a short bed. i need a truck to move full sheets of material.
i love my stick diesel 2500, but id go electric in a heartbeat.
