Better yet, don’t buy chips.  High in carbs, fat and salt.

Are people really doing this?  I’m asking this while knowing full well that people throw Starbucks frap cups into recycling with half the drink still in them and with a polystyrene straw inside.

Have you ever thought about starting an “ask a green person” column? I certainly have some questions that I can’t find clear answers to. 

You seem like a pretty smart guy, David. Why are you doing this?

What a piece of crap. Good call on the helmet!

You’re a loon, David....a loon.

You know it is bad whan a horse-drawn carrage has better weather protection — and predicted reliability — than the vehicle you’re driving.

Were you envious of the people in the horse-drawn carriage?

I wouldn’t say that “most” trucks are used for short trips, but there are many, many trucks that are used this way. Pretty much any truck used to provide service in a specific locale will be on a short-trip duty-cycle. In this kind of application, an electric vehicle will be able to take advantage of regen, and should…

High mileage says nothing about average trip length. You can get high mileage with few long trips, or many short trips.

And as long as that’s say, less than 300 miles a day, an EV will work perfectly well. That’s not everyone, but that’s a lot of people.  

Most trucks don’t do much more than any other car on a normal basis, sure the option exists for them to do more but an EV truck does still make a lot of sense for most truck owners and probably even a lot of companies.

Trucks here in Central Alberta are used as kid-haulers to school and soccer. Lots and lots of short trips. Yes there are work trucks but I would confidently say that most F150/Silverado/Ram1500 trucks are being used for commuting and errands.

Fleet vehicles put on many miles, but they usually don’t travel very far.

Almost every single time I drive a truck it’s:

50,000 mile per year, divided by 250 work days is 200 miles a day. Shouldn’t be a problem, especially if you get a quick charge at lunch, which will be increasingly easier to do

Shilling is right. But man do people hold on to romantic notions of pickups really being used to do truck stuff all the time. No one takes their boat to the lake every day. Yes, a lot of trucks are used daily for work, but we all really know that a vast majority of trucks (and every other vehicle for that matter) do…

Where did this assumption come from? Most work trucks have double the mileage of most commuter vehicles and those not working are used as commuters.

If you do the math, 20k miles over a year is still only 77 miles per day if the vehicle is driven 5 days a week.  

Manufacturers, say it with me: