Scout by... Volkswagen ?!?!?!? Electric, no less.

[California]

Funny, the slowest vehicles I see ARE Priuses... yet I’ve always thought that was due to the mindset of the people behind the wheel.

Must be.

Some hotheaded girl shot around me on the right from a stop sign that fed into a single lane, I didn't know Prius could accelerate like that! . It was probably the electric starting torque effect.

Highway use - I agree with you.

 

[Jstpssng]

Must be.

Some hotheaded girl shot around me on the right from a stop sign that fed into a single lane, I didn't know Prius could accelerate like that! . It was probably the electric starting torque effect.

Highway use - I agree with you.

I see them go past me occasionally... I always look around, hoping that nobody saw it. :embarrassed: More often though they are driven by people who are better than me. I’ve always wondered what it was like when your “*.*” doesn’t stink.

Actually, if my Ranger hadn’t rusted out so badly I had to replace it I would have considered a Prius as a second vehicle. The short distance runs on electric would be handy.

 

[Hay Dude]

The EV pickups will be plenty fast until they run out of change; unlike gas engines or (and to a less extent) turbo diesels, power doesn't drop w/ altitude. I've hauled our Airstream over Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevadas (26% grade, 9600 feet) w/ our 90's turbo diesel pickup; we were in 4 low range with the front hubs unlocked to save the automatic transmission from dying from the heat, and doing 25 mph or so. Our Tesla would happily do 5 second 0-60 times there if we could find a straight enough section of road.

Here are the specs for the F150 Lightning: Standard-Range Battery (426 HP / 775 LB-FT TQ) or Extended-Range Battery (563 HP / 775 LB-FT TQ)

Those power rating would not drop at all at altitude.

The slowest vehicles I see are never hybrids or EVs; they're 1970-1980s overloaded RVs with laboring gas engines.

- Bart

Issue being none of the EV’s currently offered have neither the braking power, chassis strength or GVWR/GCWR to pull the trailers that I tow.
I am running a standard Cummins with 360/850 and have zero trouble scaling in the mid 40,000’s GCWR. No more power is needed than that for a light or light-medium duty truck.

I’m a perfect candidate for a 4500/5500 size truck with EV power (shorter trips is my reason), but theres nothing offered.

It’s not a power issue, its a chassis rating issue.

 

[Jstpssng]

Issue being none of the EV’s currently offered have neither the braking power, chassis strength or GVWR/GCWR to pull the trailers that I tow.
I am running a standard Cummins with 360/850 and have zero trouble scaling in the mid 40,000’s GCWR. No more power is needed than that for a light or light-medium duty truck.

I’m a perfect candidate for a 4500/5500 size truck with EV power (shorter trips is my reason), but theres nothing offered.

It’s not a power issue, its a chassis rating issue.

In time, they will be here. Until that happens, and they do turn out to be as magic as some think they are, we need affordable fuel for the heavy trucks which haul the supplies we need.

 

[Surshot]

Got picked up at the Joeberg airport by the Nurse from the outfitter’s lodge, in a VW Turbo diesel van with 7 other hunters….that was a most interesting 4 hour trip. RSA has some very different customs about passing, flashing lights and doing 120. Oh, yeah. Wow… On the wrong side of the road.

 

[barts]

Issue being none of the EV’s currently offered have neither the braking power, chassis strength or GVWR/GCWR to pull the trailers that I tow.
I am running a standard Cummins with 360/850 and have zero trouble scaling in the mid 40,000’s GCWR. No more power is needed than that for a light or light-medium duty truck.

I’m a perfect candidate for a 4500/5500 size truck with EV power (shorter trips is my reason), but theres nothing offered.

It’s not a power issue, its a chassis rating issue.

Not yet, although I'd guess that situation will change in the next few years. The power train engineering needed to make effective use of regen down hills will be interesting to see; if the batteries can accept charge fast enough so that towing vehicles can descend hills at (a safe) speed, surge brakes would be a detriment since they would waste a significant amount of power. Interestingly enough, some electric locomotives descending grades put power back into the grid.

Right now I think batteries are going towards vehicles with greatest profit/unit battery power, given the supply pressures on batteries.

- Bart

 

[panamaguy]

Everything will be electric soon. Hope battery technology takes a leap forward. I love my electric car. Oil changes are a thing of the past.

Yes but do you remember when they were telling us not long ago about cell phones? Don't hold them to your head, don't carry close to body, don't have near your bed. But now electric cars come alone it's OK to sit on a huge battery and cook Eddy and the Twins. Think I will stay with y old gas car.

 

[jmc]

Yes but do you remember when they were telling us not long ago about cell phones? Don't hold them to your head, don't carry close to body, don't have near your bed. But now electric cars come alone it's OK to sit on a huge battery and cook Eddy and the Twins. Think I will stay with y old gas car.

I think that concern was about the cell phone's transmission energy, not the battery itself.

 

[tstex]

Everything will be electric soon. Hope battery technology takes a leap forward. I love my electric car. Oil changes are a thing of the past.

Yeah, let’s book a flight on an electric jet. Also, diesel trucks won’t be leaving the scene which transport everything. And, what charges an EV when it dies? A diesel truck w a diesel generator.

EV’s have their place, but not too far from their power sources…

 

[nickfank]

Last three people that I know who bought used ones had nothing but trouble (none were teslas).

I'm curious about that. What kind of issues were they having? Electric cars sold in the US are required to have a full 100,000 mile/10 year transferable warranty on the electric propulsion system (Basically everything from the charger through the batteries to the wheels.) On my 2016 Kia EV, I had an issue with my batteries with 69K on the odometer and the manufacturer rented a replacement for me while they fixed the problem at no cost. It's hard to complain when the fix is free. (Other than that problem, all I've had to do is replace tires once and wipers a few times, lubed the suspension once, still haven't worn out the original brake pads.)