Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Hay Dude]

I would buy an electric Ram 5500 in a heartbeat.
Short trips, loaded to the max and beyond is perfect for high torque electric powered vehicles.
Now that diesels are ruined by DPFs and DEF, might as well bring it on with the electric trucks!
Kind of makes you wonder if that was the strategy from back in 2008-2016 (make diesels so unreliable that replacement form of propulsion became necessary).

 

[PuffyC]

I would buy an electric Ram 5500 in a heartbeat.
Short trips, loaded to the max and beyond is perfect for high torque electric powered vehicles.

It really is amazing how much power these EVs put out. Not certain but I’d guess the Lightning will be the most powerful half ton pickup you can buy with its 775 lb-ft of torque. The 6.2L Supercharged V-8 in the Ram TRX makes “only” 650 lb-ft. You’d probably have to go to the HD and the Cummins turbo diesel to get more and iirc that’s about a $10,000 upgrade all by itself. If all you’re doing is hauling some cattle down to the local auction house or taking your boat to the lake on Saturday, something like the Lightning would be a great tow vehicle.

 

[PuffyC]

Speaking of battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow, I saw this in an article about Fords new electric SUVs:

“Ford expects 40 percent of its vehicles sold globally by 2030 will be battery-electric”

and

“Ford expects a third of the full-size truck segment in the U.S. will be fully electric by 2030, which represents more than 800,000 vehicles annually”

At less that 10 years away that would be a pretty significant shift in the market.

 

[Phil Timmons]

I would buy an electric Ram 5500 in a heartbeat.
Short trips, loaded to the max and beyond is perfect for high torque electric powered vehicles.
Now that diesels are ruined by DPFs and DEF, might as well bring it on with the electric trucks!
Kind of makes you wonder if that was the strategy from back in 2008-2016 (make diesels so unreliable that replacement form of propulsion became necessary).

Seems Dodge is trying to be the last one to the party . . . .

Dodge CEO says EVs can save America's new 'Golden Age of muscle cars'

Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis believes EVs – whether they're hybrids or all-electric vehicles – can save what he has called the new "Golden Age of muscle cars."

www.cnbc.com

 

[cqaigy2]

No thats a old farts hike when you get over 60 if the snows 2 ft deep.

Very true, especially when it's up hill, in both directions.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife of my sons friend works in battery research for one of the Detroit area companies.

I rode in a Tesla 2 or 3 years ago, didn’t even realize it was a Tesla until after I got out and I looked to see what kind of car it was.

 

[ning]

Best thing I can say about Teslas is from my experience lane-splitting a motorcycle in CA bay area traffic. From what I can tell, a substantial number of people that owned Teslas (at least a few years ago) "moved up" the car ladder a lot to get the Tesla (as in, they didn't just move from a $70k BMW to a $70k Tesla or even from the next-lower tier but lots of people jumped up a lot to get into them) and as a result, they really don't want anything near their baby... as a result, they gave a lot of room to the lane-splitter, more than pretty much any other car. It was almost a rule.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

It really is amazing how much power these EVs put out. Not certain but I’d guess the Lightning will be the most powerful half ton pickup you can buy with its 775 lb-ft of torque. The 6.2L Supercharged V-8 in the Ram TRX makes “only” 650 lb-ft. You’d probably have to go to the HD and the Cummins turbo diesel to get more and iirc that’s about a $10,000 upgrade all by itself. If all you’re doing is hauling some cattle down to the local auction house or taking your boat to the lake on Saturday, something like the Lightning would be a great tow vehicle.

Put my deposit on a Ford Lightening last night. My dealer says maybe late summer next year. Of course still waiting for the f 150 powerboost I ordered in Feb. Might see that in the next 6 weeks he thinks.

 

[NoTrespassing]

The last new car I bought in 2008 cost me $12,500 plus $1000 tax etc. It averaged over 34 mpg for 12 years and I put over 230,000 miles on it. Total maintenance was probably around $2000 not including tires. I just bought a used Mazda 3 stick and I'm getting about 38 mpg. I paid $15K + tax/title. I expect to get over 200,000 miles out of it. It has a range of over 450 miles per tank. Is there any electric vehicle that can compare monetarily to either of these vehicles available now? I prefer cars over SUV's for commuting.

Kevin

 

[California]

It really is amazing how much power these EVs put out. Not certain but I’d guess the Lightning will be the most powerful half ton pickup you can buy with its 775 lb-ft of torque. The 6.2L Supercharged V-8 in the Ram TRX makes “only” 650 lb-ft.

And it's outside the scope of traditional thinking to realize that all that torque starts from zero rpm. Instead of just being a point on a graph showing that peak torque is attained at mid-rpm.

Seems to me that some sort of traction control will be needed on any stronger EV.