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Vanimal46

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Truly a bizarre design but functionally, it will be the best pickup on the market if Tesla can keep up with Elon's promises for towing, payload, ground clearance, range, bed size, and price.

 

It's a bummer they needed those side rails for aerodynamic reasons, though. That seriously constrains work use for the truck. Not being able to side-load the bed can be a real hassle on job sites.

 

But from a functionality standpoint, this thing tows and hauls like a diesel-powered F-250 while operating for less than 50% of the costs of a gas-powered F-150.

 

That really tells you how much more efficient we can be in fleet vehicles by moving to electric. I only wish Tesla had gone more for the functionality of a work truck than a sleek (let's just say "weird") consumer truck.

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Truly a bizarre design but functionally, it will be the best pickup on the market if Tesla can keep up with Elon's promises for towing, payload, ground clearance, range, bed size, and price.

 

It's a bummer they needed those side rails for aerodynamic reasons, though. That seriously constrains work use for the truck. Not being able to side-load the bed can be a real hassle on job sites.

 

But from a functionality standpoint, this thing tows and hauls like a diesel-powered F-250 while operating for less than 50% of the costs of a gas-powered F-150.

 

That really tells you how much more efficient we can be in fleet vehicles by moving to electric. I only wish Tesla had gone more for the functionality of a work truck than a sleek (let's just say "weird") consumer truck.

it had to be a consumer truck. Electricity/battery powered freight works really well in the hub and spoke model. Electric Trains travel between rain/intermodal transit stations and electric tractor/trailers work routes always ending back at the intermodal hub.

 

construction with the ultra-small freight being hauled has to operate in many job sites where power is electric supplied by gas generators. Setting up a solar array on a jobsite seems cumbersome, even if the toque put off on the electric motor can tow just about anything.

 

 From a consumer standpoint, it's a bit too science fiction styled for my taste, but I like the idea. I want to buy a truck, but don't want to consume the fossil fuels to get the torque/cargo/size that I want for my hobbies and commute. I just wish it didn't look like the DeLorean

 

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She's a beauty. But why did they not go with a variation on this elegant design?

 

http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptvehicles/2012/darren_bartley/darren_02.jpg

 

Also from the same studio: the bus of the future:

 

http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptvehicles/2012/darren_bartley/darren_01.jpg

 

I suppose no discussion is complete without recommending this spiritual ancestor of the Tesla truck design to everyone's attention:USB10POS011A0101.png

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it had to be a consumer truck. Electricity/battery powered freight works really well in the hub and spoke model. Electric Trains travel between rain/intermodal transit stations and electric tractor/trailers work routes always ending back at the intermodal hub.

 

construction with the ultra-small freight being hauled has to operate in many job sites where power is electric supplied by gas generators. Setting up a solar array on a jobsite seems cumbersome, even if the toque put off on the electric motor can tow just about anything.

 

 From a consumer standpoint, it's a bit too science fiction styled for my taste, but I like the idea. I want to buy a truck, but don't want to consume the fossil fuels to get the torque/cargo/size that I want for my hobbies and commute. I just wish it didn't look like the DeLorean

The range is 500 miles on the premium vehicle. This isn't a vehicle that will need to charge on job sites very often, and could often be a power generator itself.

 

I don't think people really realize what it doesn't cost to run an electric vehicle. No oil changes. Brakes last twice as long. The motors last twice as long. There is no transmission. Fueling the vehicle is pennies compared to gasoline (seriously, this truck probably costs $25 to go 500 miles if charged on the overnight grid).

 

I'm not talking about this being useful on a job site 150 miles from bum**** nowhere, but that's not where most job sites exist. And the savings are enormous when applied over the life of a vehicle.

 

This is why I never understood why electric/hybrid has been pushed at economical consumers in small hatches; that's not where you can actually save real money. The real money is saved in vehicles that are driven 100+ miles a day, where electric and their 25-40% operating cost really starts to add up.

 

For example, you can buy a sedan that gets 40mpg on the freeway. That's really good. Move that same vehicle to electric and the savings are pretty minimal because the cost of operation is already so low. The savings are there, but they're not enormous.

 

But take a fleet vehicle that mainly operates in an urban environment, rarely drives over 200 miles a day, and gets pounded into the ground five days a week, 52 weeks a year, while getting just 12-15mpg... Now that's where you actually see savings and where businesses can start being convinced to move to electric, which will drag the rest of us along with them.

 

And that's why Amazon dropped $700 million on Rivian: to build them fleet vehicles. UPS should have done it five years ago, maybe even longer, but traditional business is far stupider than free marketers want us to believe. It's just one more reason why companies like Amazon are lapping the field on traditional businesses in pretty much every way; they don't have their heads up their asses.

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