TESLA Electric Truck?

[Gale Hawkins]

Agree, EV's aren't suitable for everyone.

This is so true. Until one can see an application for an EV in their travel needs it may be best to pass on ownership of an EV at this time. Battery care and treatment does have some learning curve and once damaged the damage is not self healing. It is not that hard and the software does most of the management but there are some do's and don'ts when it comes to charging, etc.

Anyone who owns a electric golf cart, solar storage batteries, etc should have a head start understanding the batteries are the tail that wags the dog.

 

[Jstpssng]

So you need that $1,500 beater as a tow vehicle for when the $100k Tesla runs out of battery.

TBS

I would love to find something for $1500 which is in good enough shape to trust it while towing a 10,000 lb trailer... and get me where I'm going every time. Besides, your $100K Tesla sounds like all of the $80k pickups which people keep talking about, while ignoring all of the extras which make it cost twice what you can buy a new one for.

 

[lilranch2001]

All I know is I am 95% sure I will never have an EV vehicle in my lifetime

 

[davrow]

All I know is I am 95% sure I will never have an EV vehicle in my lifetime

That's sad.

 

[lilranch2001]

maybe for you!

 

[California]

So you need that $1,500 beater as a tow vehicle for when the $100k Tesla runs out of battery.

TBS

Just like you need the beater for towing when your only other vehicle is a motorcycle. Or a Jeep. Or anything lightweight - that gets 3x the gas mileage compared to the beater. Many families have more than one vehicle.

 

[4570Man]

A Jeep gets 3 times the gas mileage of anything?

 

[lilranch2001]

prolly 3 times a loaded road tractor.....

 

[CHF4]

my take? it will be the Edsel design of "futuristic" trucks. the style will quickly fade
but the engineering will no doubt be the wave of the future

+1

Hopefully they inspire good products vs first gen ugly toys like the Nissan Leaf.

The statistics on this thing are amazing.

 

[lilranch2001]

yea, the Nissan Leaf is just an uglier version of a butt ugly prius