All Hat No Cattle

Saturday's Wall Street Journal had a write-up on this all-electric truck. If it actually comes out in production, Ford is going to have to up their game, big-time.

The first vid compares the F-150 to this Rivian truck. Very interesting. Enjoy.



https://www.motortrend.com/news/2020...-pickup-truck/

acdii

I read that a couple weeks back. 0-100 in something like 6 seconds. I called it the Trukla. What would make it a competitor to the F150 is the range and charge times for towing and hauling, as well as price.

Summers22

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Why no videos of it towing a 7,000 lb. trailer???

DarrinT04

i wouldn't have one. they take longer to charge up than it takes to fill up a gas tank

All Hat No Cattle

Absolutely true, LOL.

But the big Tesla uses 32 kwh to go 100 miles. So for 400 miles, it uses 128 kwh. At 12 cents per kwh, which is what I pay locally, that is $15.36 to "fill it up". Right at your home.

What do you pay for a 400 mile fill-up?

chimmike

and what does the range drop to when towing a 5,000lb aerodynamic brick of a travel trailer? I still can't get any answers on that.

AricsFX

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jhelrey

It's fugly.

moparado

What a lot of people don't realize with these so called non-polluting electric vehicles is that the power to charge their batteries has to come from somewhere.
Where does that high amperage battery charging power come from?

Coal, Natural gas and nuclear power plants. All polluters in one form or another.
With a small percentage coming from solar and windmill farms.
And there's also electrical efficiency losses involved with transporting all that added battery charging amperage over hundreds of miles.

Speaking of windmill farms, most tree huggers might not realize those windmill blades kill a lot of insect and rodent eating birds.

DarrinT04

between 50-60 dollars for city driving. and i don't get 400 miles to a full tank. maybe 300 at most