Toyota (and less so Honda) just maintain a significantly higher margin on all car sales, let alone small car sales. AKA the whole, design a car to be cheap and then make it well philosophy compared to the US OEM approach of  design it to be nice-ish and make it cheaply...

In terms of eliminating liability, preventing start-up is the safest state to put the vehicle in. Weird fault but technically sound from the fault reaction standpoint. How they managed to end up with a single point short circuit killing all brake lights in the first place is a mystery.

Yea I’m calling bullshit. Packaging inefficiencies != manufacturing prowess...

I think I’d rather see Rally-X E personally

Yea you can mitigate the severity of the peaks and valleys in grid consumption by coordinating EV consumption, but as EV take rates increase your overnight total load will dwarf your day time usage. Thus the real issue pokes its head, and that is dramatic changes in grid demand . Note that this is what I mean when I…

The specific times are really not the point I’m trying to get at. Without coordinated charge scheduling and a re-engineered grid the issue of grid load is still an issue, that’s the point..

The specific times are really not the point I’m trying to get at. Without coordinated charge scheduling and a re-engineered grid the issue of grid load is still an issue, that’s the point...

The specific times are really not the point I’m trying to get at. Without coordinated charge scheduling and a re-engineered grid the issue of grid load is still an issue, that’s the point...

Maybe not yet, but they will be. The biggest detriment to traditional energy grids is intermittent demand. AKA exactly what a whole mass of EVs trying to charge between 5:00-8:00 (around existing peak demand) would result in. Couple that with more and more solar panel installations causing a deeper drop in demand at…

Get a Yugo

Perhaps not, it would be interesting to see ya’lls resident engineer do a breakdown of the different emerging competitors though and look to start identifying some of the upsides and downsides to the direction each truck is going.

Yea 2 kWh/mi is the definition of cherry picking data to present on their part. Consider the fact that the absolute ideal for taking 80,000 lbs from 0-60 would result in ~50 kWh consumed (at 100% efficiency). To be clear, I’m not saying that there’s set of conditions in which that truck pulls off that 2 kWh/mi mark,…

It really depends a lot on exactly how much heavier Tesla truck ends up being. If it comes in at 1,000-2,000 lbs more then yes it’s pretty much a null point, but if they come in at 7,000-10,000 lbs more than a conventional truck it’s going to matter.

You kinda glossed over the “80,000 pound gross combined weight” bit a bit quickly there. Yes Tesla could probably manage to erk 500 miles out of a battery pack, but that pack is going to add a significant amount of weight and dig into the cargo portion of that 80,000 lb GVWR. Thus you end up running headlong into the…

That’s definitely fair. I will say your still photography and writing overall is certainly some of the best out there. It’d be pretty phenomenal to see your photography skills paired up with a videographer of similar talent though, especially on exceptionally unique shoots like this one.

You’re telling me you didn’t take video of this?

$10 says they call it the Ram 1200 and build it on the 2019 Jeep Scrambler platform

Make it tow > 7,000 lbs and suddenly you’ve got a pretty solid track support rig/daily!... :D

Always more pictures, however if Kinja supports any sort of in-line gallery feature that would be ideal.

I get the whole “Let’s develop a crazy backstory to generate some viral interest!” tactic, but this is a bit over the top for a Doug DeMuro video series...