...sounds like a YouTube channel with four million subscribers.

I wish Formula E would step out of its spec series comfort zone and go all out with a series that simply tests which BEV is the fastest for 50 laps.

Meanwhile at Nissan....

I read through the article twice and couldn’t figure out what’s his beef. I thought it was about losing control over the name “labradoodle”. Maybe that was part of it. But I looked up labradoodle on Wikipedia, which says (without citation): “Mr. Conron was referring to the craze he initiated of multiple types of…

Yeah, well, life’s not always Faraday.

When the incline changes and the truck starts to level out, the rear axle essentially gets lifted off the ground. Only the front wheels and the center wheels are touching the ground with any force, so the rear axle just spins helplessly.

The middle axle is taking all the weight, none left over for the rear axle to drive the truck.  In reality, and it sounds like there is a option to do so, both rear axles need to be driven to get up this incline. 

Most laughable is the bit about long-term battery health as if Audi gives a fuck about reliability outside of their warranty.

And excuses, apparently.

Get a PHEV for that. The hybrid drivetrain will still deliver superior low-end torque and an all-EV mode for worksite/farm/town driving, and an ultra-efficient Atkinson engine can do the long range/highway towing.

The automakers are ripping off the American (male) public with pickups. It’s their collective cash cows.

Sure the first EVs might have a premium, but really there is a lot of profit margin/room to disrupt the pickup market, so EV economics may not be so fundamentally noncompetitive.

And by the time pickup designs…

To think people drastically overestimate how much charging away from home is actually required.  It’s not like an ice where you can only fill at a gas station.  I’d guess 90% of ev charging is done at home.  For me it’s more like 98% and I only have 70-80 miles of range.

ICE cars are hot, smelly, loud, and dirty.

I’m sorry, but that is a myth.

“They may not start out “affordable”, but then again, most pick-ups are being sold at 50K+, so they’ve all gotten expensive at this point.”

How do you do that with an electric truck?

I believe that 15 ships number is the SOX and NOX and particulates and other “nasty stuff”. Bad no doubt. But I don’t think it applies to greenhouse gas production. As best as I could find 15% of GHG’s production worldwide comes from transportation, 3% of which is ships.( According to the EPA transportation is 29% of…

So what you’re saying is that one powertrain may not serve 100% of customers? How is this any different than how a full-size pickup wioth a V6 also won’t serve the towing needs for everyone?

We do have a universal charging standard: CCS.

Those are only a few years out.