Have Swedes conquered the cold weather problem for EVs, or do they just hibernate for the winter now?
The Norwegians conquered it, then the Swedes just looked over and realized it was no big thing.
Those '$100+k charging stations' generally aren't for people that live there especially in rural areas where a higher percentage of people live in single family homes. It would be silly for those people to not just charge at home with a charger that cost ~$500 instead of $100,000. They're there to encourage people to visit that area. I helped a McDs owner install charging stations at 3 of his restaurants. He doesn't charge anything to charge. Why? Because it encourages people to go eat there; he gives away $1 in electricity and they buy a $40 meal for the family. Everyone wins except the oil companies and Ruzzia.
Damn, I didn't realize MN has like 100 counties! Some pretty colorful names too. Anyhow, just looking at a backwater county in Maine or Minnesota (or even the entire state) is pretty myopic. The change is happening all around us, and it won't be long before it comes to our towns. You'll come to love your EV. Mark my words.
The f150 lightning is a terrible bad joke of a pickup truck. Even with the largest battery it can barely manage a load of groceries, let alone anything close to its claimed payload without a generator hooked up to it. There have been, many, many reviews on this fatal flaw. It's not taking any market my storm out side of the soccer dad that is trying to virtue signal his manliness. Even the gm hummer ev can manage to go farther with weight behind it, and it's range is pathetic.
Like any new platform, there are bugs to work out. I'm confident it will do well for Ford. People don't buy 1/2 ton pickups for heavy towing duty anyhow. Most of them do amazingly little work that a Golf couldn't do.
We're not talking about a bug. We're talking about a worthless truck.
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I'd love to have an EV, but I can't afford one- I've done the numbers and the after rebates price of even a Bolt would have to come down to $10K for it to work for me. I need and bought a small van too and their are no EVs in that segment.
And there's what, 3 or 4 of them intermittently running? Only a Tesla cultist would fall for their semi as Volvo, Traton, Daimler, and Paccar have working models available for purchase. In fact, Volvo just got an order for over a thousand from Holcim in Europe.
The pace of EV change here is so slow that it may not even be happening. The first EV in southwest Minnesota was delivered 10 years ago and even the delivery was a challenge, dealer I bought my last 2 TDIs from sold it and it ran out of juice on the 60 mile delivery run! After 10 years EVs here have probably multiplied by 100 fold but they're still barely .1% of the vehicle fleet here. So even given the same 100x acceleration of EV percentage in the fleet they'll maybe be 8% EVs in the fleet in another decade. Growth beyond that 8% will be difficult simply because it will require selling EVs into segments where even the advocates admit they won't work like heavy duty pickups, vans, and larger trucks. So makes more sense to ignore the EV cultists and see EVs as part of the global warming solution along with plug in hybrids and renewable fuels.
even more worthless in the range department and can't even haul the same weight as a diesel powered semi. Everyone wants to point out all the power the ev have, and all that extra power does is burn up the charge faster. Sorry, not sorry, it's years away from being a viable option.
They go 500 miles with a full 82k lb. That's plenty for 2/3 of trucking routes in this country today. Pepsi/Frito Lay is already saving bundles on fuel and maintenance with their fleet of electric semis. Maintenance costs (and associated downtime costs) alone on a fleet of today's diesel semis is staggering.
even PepsiCo won't disclose what real world millage is. The last article I read about the Tesla trucks were, they are only used for short range trips and not loaded close to their max weight so they can be recharged after a trip. They use cng powered Volvos for their long haul operations. btw just about any diesel semi can triple that range. Also, like I said before it can't haul as much weight as a diesel powered semi. The Tesla truck weighs more then the diesel powered truck. Ie can't haul as much weight. But it's electric so your getting an additional 2k lbs because the feds want electric so bad. We can move on the charging... wait that infilstructure doesn't exist yet. Ok, that old chestnut eventually they will get there. No one knows what the maintenance costs are, it's reported Tesla is doing the maintenance free of charge for PepsiCo/lays. A disease powered truck goes for 10k miles at least before needing an oil change and hundreds of thousands of miles before much of anything else is needed. It's all virtue signaling at this point. When like can actually replace the capabilities of like then I'll get excited about it. Till then it's a waste of space.
Beat me to it... yes the big V engines all died out 15-20 years ago now and took the 19L cummins with it. Replaced by 15L and more typically 12-13L and even smaller 9L engines depending on application. One of the big topics at last year's towman show in Baltimore was ev rescue and emergency charging. Lots of calls for stranded cars. One of the "portable charger" ie gas/ diesel.powered generator unveiled its latest gadget which was a 150kw diesel generator on a small trailer.... it was cool buy made a lot of us laugh... another need for gas/diesel to power an electric vehicle.
PepsiCo has at least 54 of the electric Semis in operation today. With more getting delivered on a regular basis. They have a max payload of 44k lbs, which is enough for more than 90% of the loads on the road. They are being bought by fleet operators, not truck drivers.
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They do. They just don't have nearly enough to meet demand yet. They're going to be opening up a full production facility for the Semi in Nevada quite soon. Then it's off to the races.