IMHO, EVs are not ready for prime time until they can be competitive with ICE vehicles without various levels of government subsidizing their sale.

There’s something profoundly ironic about naming a vehicle getting fuel economy in the low teens after the one of the oldest and largest life forms being destroyed by climate change.

“We wanted to show a typical boat trip, so we took a boat without satnav through a reef at low tide”

I’m guessing she didn’t even try the Electrify America network because a completely normal trip with a few extra stops doesn’t make for big clicks :)

LoL. It’s like the people who can’t strain spaghetti until the amazing “spaghetti straining pot” came along.

Looking at the Electrify America map, it appears that for the first ~400 miles of her journey, there is a gap in Electrify America coverage. But once she got past that first 400 miles, it should have been straightforward to hop from EA charger to EA charger.

Deja vu?

I actually don’t think it’s car dealers. This doesn’t compete with you if you’re a car dealer - nothing on your lot is losing sales to a 25-year old mini truck.

Last time I was there they had one at the Corning factory museum in upstate New York.

It’s just what happens to us old white guys unless we’re fitness buffs. I’m starting to look like a thumb myself. A few of us aren’t assholes. 

I think vehicles like this make a lot of sense, but just not in the USA. We’ve always had a perception here that bigger is better. And then now you have large vehicles weighing in at 4500lbs instead of 2000lbs. This thing has less hp per lbs than even a 2004 xB. 0-60 might be slower than 14 seconds.

I do love all the neat little bits of engineering in modern ICE cars; it shows such dedication to the medium, so to speak. However, I do think it also shows why electric cars are the future. Hybrids show that the most efficient way to “run” a car with an ICE is to turn it off most of the time. A decade-old Nissan Leaf…

I don’t think you’re gonna find any GMT800s in even semi decent condition for under 5 grand now a days, those guys and 400s are on the rise, especially if they’re not rusted.

I’d try to contribute, but I think you hit the mane points.

Ford has to stop horsing around and buck this trend of product launch issues. Having brand new flagship products saddled with these kind of issues behooves them to increase their quality control until a stable manufacturing process is established.

There’s no way any OEM would take on the liability to do a fix like that. Could you imagine the story you guys would write about it?? “TESLA SHAVES OFF CRITICAL COOLANT FITTING, USES HARDWARE FROM HOME DEPOT TO REPAIR BATTERY”. Oh the humanity!

Does this mean that instead of the “angry Jeep face”, we’ll have the “angry Bronco shoulder” - scoops, spikes, and jagged edges like a Gwar costume?

That’s easily the best use for this. A set of rubber fenders for bumps along the trail is pretty genius.

It would be very cool to have a set of plastic or rubber “trail” fenders and leave the nice ones at home.

Tesla did something so difficult that the other car manufacturers would rather pay them 100's of millions of dollars than do it themselves, and that’s somehow a bad thing?