Ford F150 Lightning Electric Vehicle-WOW! Just WOW!...Or maybe not wow?

[A Watchman]

Ford is also offering 2 years free charges in one of their charging stations after you buy a Ford F150 Lightning. Sounds like they keep upping the ante!

Regarding a drain on the grid, I think its pretty evident that most people will not get an EV. Hell, Tesla has sold a somewhere around 2 million vehicles (check my stat on that one, I'm going from memory) and I still rarely see one in the wild!

Plus, it seems as if the cost to charge a car is much less than the strain that microwaves, hairdryers and toaster ovens put on the grid daily!

But for me, I'm also thinking it would be a cool project to build a Solar Home Charging Station...

I'll keep my eyes and ears open and see how this Ford F150 EV thing progresses.

But I am betting a new Owner has to buy his own skinny jeans, huh?

[bigwheel]

And yeah.. price out the replacement cost of the battery. Friend owns a “hybrid” and got a surprise.

The muslim next door tried to sell me a used Hybrid cheap...but not cheap enough for me to afford to buy batteries when the originals zonk out.

[Dwight55]

My position remains the same that it has always been. Electric vehicles are leaps and bounds ahead of internal combustion engines. Torque and horsepower of electric motors blow engines away. There is a reason all of your big locomotives that move thousands of tons of freight are ALL electric motor-driven. Ever see a Hellcat race a Tesla? I don't need engineers to produce a better electric motor. I need engineers to produce a better BATTERY. It needs to get 300 miles on a charge, and above all else, I need to be able to fully recharge it in 10 minutes or less. Do THAT, and I am sold.

"Do THAT, and I am sold."

I think we could play hockey over top of hell before that will come to pass.

I mean the place frozen solid . . . about 6 ft deep . . . and free ice skates and hockey sticks for everyone.

May God bless,
Dwight

[SGG]

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Can't wake the banned.

[red442joe]

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[Prepared One]

I think I'll stick with my good old fashioned gas guzzling truck. If I want to get across country it won't be in an electric truck. One of our corporate partners has an electric car as a company vehicle. I took a ride with him and the thing can move. I was surprised. But finding charging stations is a problem, especially once you start hitting the countryside. He has to carry different adapters for the different chargers and then there is the wait time to charge. I'll pass.

[shootbrownelk]

My position remains the same that it has always been. Electric vehicles are leaps and bounds ahead of internal combustion engines. Torque and horsepower of electric motors blow engines away. There is a reason all of your big locomotives that move thousands of tons of freight are ALL electric motor-driven. Ever see a Hellcat race a Tesla? I don't need engineers to produce a better electric motor. I need engineers to produce a better BATTERY. It needs to get 300 miles on a charge, and above all else, I need to be able to fully recharge it in 10 minutes or less. Do THAT, and I am sold.

Those electric motors in the locomotives are powered by gigantic diesel engines. They're a hybrid....lol

[shootbrownelk]

I think I'll stick with my good old fashioned gas guzzling truck. If I want to get across country it won't be in an electric truck. One of our corporate partners has an electric car as a company vehicle. I took a ride with him and the thing can move. I was surprised. But finding charging stations is a problem, especially once you start hitting the countryside. He has to carry different adapters for the different chargers and then there is the wait time to charge. I'll pass.

With the broken up and halfazzed electrical grid in the United States, electric vehicles are just not practical.

[shootbrownelk]

But I am betting a new Owner has to buy his own skinny jeans, huh?

And grow a man bun, and buy a 6.5 Creedmoor-n-more-n-more.

[Sparkyprep]

"Do THAT, and I am sold."

I think we could play hockey over top of hell before that will come to pass.

I mean the place frozen solid . . . about 6 ft deep . . . and free ice skates and hockey sticks for everyone.

May God bless,
Dwight

I'm sure someone, somewhere, at one time, said the same thing about people flying, or going to space, or going to the bottom of the ocean.....