Recent content by Jon A

Definitely. I guess it depends how a guy defines "serious." Towing a large, heavy trailer that catches the wind like a sail over a long distance would be thought of as pretty serious by many people, even if it's only done occasionally. Regardless, people who do that do make up a decent chunk...

There's some really deep critical thinking going on there.... But this will be very interesting--in the next few months, when real prices are announced and they're $10K, $20K or $30K less than what the hoaxer from Reddit mad you believe, how will you react? It'll be fun to see. I'm guessing...

Personally, I think Ram got it about right (actual road tests still needed to confirm) and I would expect Ford to do a very similar thing: 130 kW sustained output, 200 kW maximum. Look for generators capable of that and look up their weights. It's a whole different thing.... :wink:

The 95% of truck buyers who didn't (and won't) buy a BEV truck is a very, very large pool of potential buyers. There are a lot of "target audiences" within that group. If you read through the comments on some of those videos, you'll see many are planning exactly that. Not farmers, ranchers...

A "source" for proving a negative. :rolleyes: Sure. How about all the actual journalists who have been covering this truck extensively the last couple of months, attended all the auto shows, spoke with numerous people from RAM (including Tim Kuniskis himself). The official line from Ram is...

I don't deal in conspiracy theories, but you're free to think what you want. In a couple of years, we'll know if you were right (about it not making it, not the other stuff). That indeed looks like an interesting project and I wish him the best of luck. But it's not the same thing.... To...

Agreed. All that capability (they weren't messing around!), but still an infinitely more pleasant (and much cheaper) daily driver than any HD truck. It'll be interesting to see how well it works at both of those things in real life once they hit the streets.

I won't argue the first. But with its towing and hauling capabilities far beyond that of any other 1/2 ton truck, I think a lot of buyers who use their trucks for truck things (but want a really nice daily driver as well and would like to avoid a HD truck) will be interested. And no, buyers...

No, the 145 mile range is based upon using less than 70 kWh of the battery. That rounds off to about 2.1 mi/kWh. You are correct sir. The bottom 17% of battery can never be accessed by the user on purpose (except purposely running out of gas). It's a much larger percent held back in Tow/Haul...

This was a total internet hoax. I'm sorry you fell for it.

Gas stations do not need an actual pipeline direct from the refinery in order to keep them supplied with energy. Replace a row of gas pumps with 1-2 MEGAWATT! chargers, and the station does need a "pipeline of copper" directly to it. That will be obscenely expensive to do in even a small...

If you don't want to read my posts, that's fine. But if you feel compelled to comment on them, actually reading them first may be helpful. The statement was regarding exactly how far the BEV range is doesn't matter much when it is much longer than most people need on a daily basis--and that...

It was generalized. I wasn't saying it doesn't work perfectly well for lots of people. It was generalized in the context of getting a wider customer base to actually buy it. Being lacking in some specific capabilities (even if they aren't needed very often for most people) tends to drive...

I think you need to pick an argument and stick with it. In the first you seem to be implying trips of that distance are extremely rare (in which case, an EREV owner would be using very, very little gas for the bulk of their use). In the second you seem to be implying that much, much longer...

You're completely correct. An EREV isn't going to be cheaper than a BEV with a small battery, and pretty close in cost to those with medium sized batteries. But, that's not quite a fair comparison. I think most reasonable people would agree, that the 140 kWh Lighning is somewhere between "not...