On 21 May 2021 at 21:22, Jim Walls via EV wrote: > Because you didn't want to drive some postage stamp vehicle... > Or you like me NEED a full size truck...
Tradespeople in every other major industrial democracy do fine with trucks as little as half the weight of our pickups. US prickups carry less cargo per unit of energy used than work vehicles (usually vans) almost anywhere else. They're grossly oversized, grossly overpowered, grossly wasteful. The majority of people who own these enormous trucks don't need their full capacity every day. Many use that capacity a few times per year at most. The rational answer to that situation is the station car concept. Instead of owning a vehicle, you pay for the right to use the vehicle you need day to day. M-F you might commute to work in a subcompact EV or midsize plug hybrid. Every so often you swing by the depot after work on Friday and swap it for a pickup truck or van, so you can haul plywood from the lumberyard for a home project. Monday morning you get your EV back. Twice a year for 2 weeks you sign up for a 7-place van or ute or even a camper, so you can haul the family on vacation in relative comfort. But that won't fly here, because while I doubt that it's true of most EVDLers, many big pickup owners don't really own their vehicles because they need them. They own them because the size and power appeal to their antisocial, aggressive emotions. The truck manufacturers know that, and deliberately design them for that appeal. Just look at them - massive slablike front ends attached to comically small beds, huge wheels, roaring exhausts, beercan-size chrome plated phallic tailpipes. Compare them with the practical, economical vans that European and Asian tradespeople drive. Heck, compare them with the more reaonable and practical pickups that Americans drove in the 1960s. Don't misunderstand me. I think it's good that Ford is going to build an EV pickup. It's just that they could have made it so much more rational. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. -- Richard Nixon, "Real Peace"(1983) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
