Electric Vehicles: General topics

[Yoused]

Pickup trucks are a tricky BEV execution

Does anyone make a pickup truck? I have seen no pickups on the road, except for a few that are a couple decades old. I see a lot of bloated ugly cars with a tiny open bit at the back, but pickups do not seem to exist at all any more.

 

[Eric]

Does anyone make a pickup truck? I have seen no pickups on the road, except for a few that are a couple decades old. I see a lot of bloated ugly cars with a tiny open bit at the back, but pickups do not seem to exist at all any more.

Any rural area will be overrun with them.

 

[Herdfan]

Does anyone make a pickup truck? I have seen no pickups on the road, except for a few that are a couple decades old. I see a lot of bloated ugly cars with a tiny open bit at the back, but pickups do not seem to exist at all any more.

Is this pickupy enough for you?

Not MY truck, but mine is exactly like it.

 

[diamond.g]

EREV allows for pure BEV operation for a reasonable distance, if you use it like a BEV you'll never fire up the ICE gen for 100+ miles, it's a totally different model, a PHEV would wind up being a vehicle that lugs 500+ lbs around with little benefit after 30-40 miles (at best case).

It gives you all the perks of a BEV, no transmission, huge off idle torque, with the perks of ease of fueling of an ICE.

EREV is perfect for trucks, offroad, towing.

As long as the gas generator can acutally supply the motors (via-sa-vi the battery) enough power to actually be useful. Otherwise you end up in an i3 situation where the motor can't provide enough juice to the battery to do the required work. And if the motor is large enough to keep the battery charged while towing uphill, then you are likely not getting great fuel economy just powering the batteries and you may as well power the driven axles.

Of course I am basing my opinion on the OG Volt. Which (as far as I am aware) never actually powered the wheels with the motor, like the i3. So we had interesting modes like Mountain Mode that would top the battery up because the motor couldn't provide enough power when you were in "hybrid" mode (I think it was called either charge depleted or charge depletion mode) to go up and down mountains. Of course that isn't an everyday occurrence for folk, but then again such a mode would probably be needed for towing.

 

[Yoused]

Is this pickupy enough for you?

To me, that is an oversized car with a dog platform in the back.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm looking forward to seeing what Ford can do with the new platform.

I'd be interested in something like the Maverick, that's a BEV.

 

[Cmaier]

To me, that is an oversized car with a dog platform in the back.

It also has room for a gun rack

 

[Yoused]

It also has room for a gun rack

See, there is the thing right there: where would you put it? Many years ago, we had a F-100, and it did have a gun rack (bought it used, came with). We never actually put guns on it, but the point of it was you had the gun right there at hand. The thing Herdfan showed, if you put the gun rack in the traditional back window location, how do you easily grab a gun when you suddenly spot a buck in dire need of becoming a trophy? It is a hell of a long reach from behind the wheel, and if you have to get out to get it, the buck will have run away. The only upside is that it puts the guns in easy reach of the young'uns who can take them down and play with them while you are going down the highway and then … oops …