A cap about doubles the dry storage and adds a place for another roof bar for long items like rafts.

Sure - If you want a body-on-frame truck that rides horribly and gets crap fuel economy.

Or you drop the tailgate, flip over a bed extender, and load 4 bikes.

This vehicle is on my short list as would a truck cap. Where is the irony?

The bed on the Santa Cruz is 3 inches shorter than the one on my 2000 Frontier Crew Cab.

Bed extender

It has a roll-up tonneau cover that takes up room at the front of the bed.

I had a 2000 Frontier Crew Cab with the 55 inch bed. I had a rolling tonneau cover that took up 6 inches in the front of the bed. (The Santa Cruz has a rolling cover too which is why the upper dimension is smaller than the bottom of the bed) 

Skis on the roof rack and gear in the back under the cover.

Fishing waders smeared with cured salmon eggs.

Lower tailgate, flip bed extender, load mtn bikes.

Lower tailgate, flip over bed extender, load bikes.

There is a perfectly rational reason for using drum brakes.

The real price for a the current Bolt is mid 20's. If anyone is paying more they are getting ripped off. For April GM has a $10,500 factory rebate + a $3,000 Costco discount.

Exactly. It is a way to imply action but take none.

Oregon has a rebate not a tax credit. It is not tied to income taxes at all.

France wants people to turn in a car to get the e-bike credit because the goal is to get people to commute by bicycle instead of by car. They don’t want to pay $3,000 so people can ride e-bikes instead of regular bike on their weekend ride.

Why not used EV vs used gas car then?

Oregon has been doing fee per mile program called OReGO for awhile now too. I signed up for the trial 5 years ago. They record the number of miles traveled on Oregon roads and apply the 1.8 cent fee per mile. Then subtract out the gas tax paid based on OBD fuel economy data. Each month I get a bill and it auto debits…

Australia is a huge country with 2/3 rds of the population living in 5 cities.