I don’t understand your problem with the ridgeline, but okay. Anyway, I’m happy that the tesla truck is out because the hubbub seems to have urged ford, gm, rivian, and bollinger to hurry up their ev truck rollouts.

I am glad to see that Elon Musk finally decided to complete the Hammerhead Eagle iThrust.

Can we talk about how in his attempt to unnecessary re-invent the pickup truck Musk unintentionally stole from Sabre’s attempt to unnecessarily reinvent the phone?

This is honestly a lot better. Also better access to the bed is never a bad thing.

Never mind specs. Let’s fix the design so people might actually buy it. Personally, I don’t have a big problem with the faceted look, but I cannot abide the teepee roofline. So:

This is great! On the other hand, I don’t think the BMW tuners are that surprised...

That covers what percentage of trips?

Yeah, range/recharging and price are the two biggest hurdles EVs have to overcome. It has to be as affordable and convenient as an ICE. There’s a reason VHS won the war against BETA. It was cheaper and more accessible. (Plus, it had porn.)

As someone working as a Powertrain Development Engineer In Michigan right now, this is just the way I see it. Once all vehicle systems go full autonomous / electrical / App-based, there won’t be much need for us “old-school” Engineers. 

It looks nothing like a Compass.

There is technically a back seat, but it’s more of a vestigial organ than usable space for humans.

Did you have it in full Hellcat mode in the wet or did you use the lower HP mode? That’s still a thing in these right? 

Never trust colors.  Always use labels.

I think it has to do with ROI, plan and simple. The Big 3 take trucks seriously. Like life-depends-on-it seriously. Thats is their poster child for success. When Ford sells nearly a million pickups a year, rocking the boat is the last thing they want to do. So are you going to offer ICE and EV in the same platform?…

And there-in lies the problem, GM started with the volt when the reason d’etre for buying electric, albeit Hybrid, was to save fuel. the Tesla does this as an afterthought and honestly it may not be as efficient dollars wise once the demand goes up astronomically as BEV demand goes up faster than the current electric…

This car was planned 5 years ago. Honestly, 5 years ago all auto makers were looking around the room wondering “are you going to dabble in this ‘Electric’ shit or is this Musk fucker’s company going to fizzle out and let us go back to work?”

Because most people here whine about literally anything, but especially any crossover.

1. Ford gets the full tax credit plus whatever state credits.

I’m not a fan of either ford or tesla, but in terms of styling this is miles ahead of the model Y lol

If price and specs are indeed competitive when it finally hits the streets I could see the reasons as: