LOL right, it I had the money and more importantly a way to charge at home I might look for one.  Unforutnately while I do own my home I have no garage not a single outdoor outlet and what is almost certainly asbestos tile in the outside LOL, so mounting a charger would be an issue. I’m in a rare situation with a…

It is, and I have the V8, it’s got the pep when you need it and it can cruise at highway speed like it’s nothing, power really kicks in about 2500-3000 rpm. It’s big its comfy has the tech I want, and the V8 still carries a premium. The local CJD dealer called me trying to buy it for used inventory, and I was like the…

“This is pretty much the poster child scenario of why it’s NOT good for people to be as armed and paranoid as the GOP establishment wants them to be.”

Well good, we need a breakthrough it energy density so we can have a usable real world 300 mile range in not an almost 5000 pound car.

Oh yeah I dig the look, and they actually aren’t massive, we have a couple in town. But like you I don’t need a truck, always wanted one, but I have no real use case. If I could afford one and had a way to charge I would totally trade in my 2020 300S, even 5 years later it’s still worth damn near what I paid, I…

Good luck convincing a sitting president, the member of the house and senate to decrease military spending, doubly so with Russia doing what it’s doing not to mention China testing the waters literally and figuratively in the South China Sea. I’m not saying the money isn’t there, but convincing the people in Washington…

That just bolsters my point, though for different reasons lol. Even if we subsidized like crazy we are already starting from a losing position just in terms of cost. And unfortunately new commercial roll out of new battery tech is a bit like fusion it’s always seems a few years away.

Investing in it’s future is fine, and should the US have subsidized EV tech, probably, but even then we still couldn’t compete on a cost of production level with China, that’s the primary problem. And frankly no developed country can compete with China on that basis except maybe an India or other country in the area…

Well the problem is, first China is massively subsidizing their EV industry to the tune of about $15 billion US a year, they are also well know for stealing IP, I would be curious how much of their EV tech is stolen EV tech from other automakers, versus fully home grown, and second the pay difference for employees in…

LOL I have done the same thing. Looking at the local Ford dealer the F-150 XLT, the step below you start getting special names, are in the mid 60's in that SAME price range you can get a BMW 3 series, a 530i and a M340i so your average Ford F-150, non special named models, are BMW 3 series prices now. And if you go…

“Would you get in an electric car, blast to 60 in 2.something seconds and be like”

You forgot to add how in politics anything that good that happened a sitting pres will 100% take credit for, even when they had nothing to do with it, and blame their predecessor for anything that goes wrong unless their predecessor had the same letter next to their name, in which case go back the the predecessor with…

Well if your not familiar with turbo car’s of that era not expecting the turbo lag is understandable.  I would also like to know how old, or new, the tires are. Cars like these typically aren’t driven a lot so having old tires and not knowing is possibility.

You must not have looked at truck prices in years. MSRP on a Ford F-150 hovers right at or a hair below $50k for a low spec model.

I disagree, I think when people say EV’s are boring drives, it’s not because they have stupid acceleration, it’s because ANY EV can has nutty 0-60 times, that a few years ago were unheard of even in the tip top of the super/hyper/mega car market. That’s kind of the point EV’s made performance well, irrelevant. Like…

Yep essentially ANY sealed container of any kind should not be left in a car in extreme hot or cold days. That said, if it is something filled with a gas like say a lighter it’s fine on cold days.  Or I should say something that’s liquid filled whose freezing point is well below normal winter temps, that varies…

Or in a very hot car, in both cases the can can explode.

Well we can hope, and pray, that the GOP tears itself apart jockeying for a place on the Cheeto’s teet.  I think we saw a tiny bit of that with the government shutdown vote.

So much this, it take an exceedingly long time to spin up manufacturing from scratch, and it’s longer than a 4 year presidential term.

To be fair that’s pretty much how it goes in politics.