EVs a disaster

[Anonymous]

What's the point of paying all the premium for this trash if it can't even do what a normal truck should be able to do?

So pathetic. Totally impractical, unreliable, and a waste of money.

[Anonymous]

Your gas mileage goes way down when you tow anything as well. Not seeing how this is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your gas mileage goes way down when you tow anything as well. Not seeing how this is different.

Don't be disingenuous. The ford EV performs FAR WORSE than a gas powered vehicle, plus it only takes 5 minutes to fill up with gas vs. 45 minutes to recharge an EV with far less range. complete S show.

He also did a followup:

Had to sell this expensive junk because the range was trash in cold weather without towing anything. Absolutely terrible.

[Anonymous]

Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

[Anonymous]

i would get a tesla, these other companies have no idea what they are doing w/ evs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

This. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that EVs don’t make great working trucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc. What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc. What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you.

Do you live in California? Do you have to haul work equipment there?

[Anonymous]

You should a tad unhinged, OP. Take a deep breath. Or maybe go for a drive in your big manly internal combustion engine equipped pick up truck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc. What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you.

California is setting a timeline to move to 100% ZEVs for new vehicle sales by 2035. I’m sure the technology won’t change at all in the next 13 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc. What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you.

Haha, oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had stumbled into the Blue Collar California Moms and Dads forum. Silly me, thinking the vast majority of posters here who have or who are considering EVs buy small sedans or SUVs and use them primarily for commuting and soccer practice.

Bye!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should a tad unhinged, OP. Take a deep breath. Or maybe go for a drive in your big manly internal combustion engine equipped pick up truck.

You sound kind of unhinged yourself. Take a couple edibles and sip some soy tea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc. What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you.

Do you live in California? Do you have to haul work equipment there?

CA's regulations bleed into many states if you didn't know. Your questions is woefully naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc. What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you.

Haha, oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had stumbled into the Blue Collar California Moms and Dads forum. Silly me, thinking the vast majority of posters here who have or who are considering EVs buy small sedans or SUVs and use them primarily for commuting and soccer practice.

Bye!

Look deeper.

(I know, I know, that’s not your thing. Try anyway)

Let’s say you need your toilet fixed. Because I doubt you’re the handy type. So you need to call a plumber. Plumbers drive work trucks or vans. They need to, because they have to carry lots of tools, not to mention toilets, sinks, water heaters, and lengths of pipe. They MUST use a truck of some kind.

So you call your plumber and set an appointment for say, 10am. The plumber drives out to your home - using 50% of the vehicle’s charge to get there - and fixes/replaces your toilet/sink/whatever in about an hour. Then she (see what I did there? Yeah, women are plumbers too) she needs the rest of the vehicles charge to get home. If she had a conventional truck, she could just take a couple minutes, fill up with gas, and hit another job or two after your house - which she finished at 11am. But she can’t do that. She needs to recharge her EV truck now, otherwise if she goes to another job after yours, she won’t make it home or to pick up her kid from aftercare, because she’ll need to recharge for an hour or so after running down her EV truck battery.

So now instead of doing 3 or maybe even 4 jobs a day, she’s limited to 1 or 2.

Her earning potential has effectively been cut in half because of the complications of recharging the vehicle.

Do you think she’s simply going to eat that cost and accept earning half what she used to when she drove a ICE truck?

Nope.

She’s going to make it up by charging you double the price.

So your toilet replacement, which might’ve cost $300-$400 before, will now cost you $600-$800 now instead. Because she’s only doing half the work - so the work needs to produce twice as much revenue.

Extrapolate that over an entire service economy now. Everything will get more expensive, and take longer.

That’s a deeper look.


Try it.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, EVs are the future and generalizing hate for EVs just makes you lose all credibility. Maybe this particular truck does not perform as expected. But don't trash the entire industry, moron.