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Bezos backed $20k Slate EV truck with 150-240 mile range

Never did like riding pillion.
??? The OL supposed to be on the P-Pad, not you. :)

EVs are crazily popular around here (NH/VT "Upper Valley") for a variety of reasons, even though I'd opine that this is a tough environment for battery power
My idea of the perfect Hybrid would be a Pickup with a 700 hp ICE engine with a 21 yo College Cutie riding the shotgun seat.

Looking into Toyota Cross hybrid...
Your American, buy American ;)
 
Interesting that! My current beast is a Ford Focus, very much a global platform and design. It’s the most reliable car I’ve ever owned but nearing the end, I’m afraid. Maintenance only, no repairs. For what it’s worth, the Toyota I’m looking at is manufactured in Huntsville, Alabama, America.
 
For what it’s worth, the Toyota I’m looking at is manufactured in Huntsville, Alabama, America.
But corporate profit taxes are paid to Japan.
 
Do you own or consume anything not made in the United States? Listen to music created by people who hail from other lands? Spin the globe and see that it is round?
 
Do you own or consume anything not made in the United States?
Only when I don't have a choice. Whats wrong with that?
 
[Ford] EV process economics
Well any new technology tends to have an investment loss curve, it's somewhat apples and oranges to compare versus mature very high sales volume technologies. That's the chicken and egg dilemma. There's also this
https://www.autoblog.com/news/gms-ev-losses-werent-from-making-cars-they-were-from-canceling-them
We stumbled into leasing a Chevy Volt back in 2014, I thought that series hybrid powertrain would be cool for trucks, like diesel-electric locomotives. Instead it seems RAM has gotten the jump on that.
Chinese EVs. They have the world market already. The US auto industry will not survive long after we stop focusing on burning dinosaurs and having ridiculous standards in place to "protect" American jobs while the technology elsewhere keeps moving forward.
China appears to be hugely subsidizing all that, so to me the problem is we implemented FREE trade but not FAIR trade. We opened up our factories to have to compete directly with factories paying their workers pennies for crazy long working hours and dumping trash and toxins all over...so our factories went out of business. THEN would have been the time to have leveling tariffs. Sigh.
 
'The customer, a 72-year-old retired British social worker who lives in Spain and New Zealand, had ordered a mosquito repellant on Amazon Marketplace. Jane* said: “I will not be using Amazon again. I want people to know that it’s unsafe.”'

Well how the hell did he get in her house?!? She left the door open? She let him in to process the delivery and went to the bathroom? No details given. I don't even open my front door, I open a window next to it. My elderly mother did have a fellow literally brush past her into her house but that doesn't seem the case here.
 
Well how the hell did he get in her house?!? She left the door open?
Wide open door or not, he had absolutely no business entering her home.
If he had done something like that around here, odds are very high he'd have left in a body bag. ;)
 
I enjoy the look of the Tesla 'S' sedan and am saddened to read Tesla will end production later in 2026.

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I rode in the sport version of one of these and it had by far the fastest acceleration of any car I've ever been in, and I have been in some very serious muscle cars.
Think Hayabusa racing-bike acceleration.
Electric motors have a very wide power band compared to piston engines, so will always be better for acceleration, throttle response and drivability than a piston engined car with the same nominal horsepower since they generate it over a narrow power band.
Basic engineering ;)
 
We had a few Model S as company cars at the last place I worked. Shame it's going as it's one of the few good looking EVs.

On a positive note the Jensen Interceptor could be making a return, V8 engine:

 
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