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Ford CEO Says Its $30,000 Electric Truck Has Reached the Prototype Stage

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Ford CEO Says Its $30,000 Electric Truck Has Reached the Prototype Stage - Lemmy.World

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Jan 20 at 11:30pmWeb
Show threadTheReturnOfPEBJan 20
i can’t wait to see how someone from doug’s podcast can ruin this vehicle, too!
Show threadbrucethemooseJan 20

Good!

Even if you’re a climate change denier, fact is Ford has to figure out cheap EVs anyway. ICE costs pretty much bottomed out, unless you’re talking about a generator for an EV drivetrain.

Show threadneidu3Jan 20
Knowing Ford, it’s gonna be awful and impossible to do maintenance on, but it can’t possibly be worse than the nazi dumpster.
Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodJan 20
I’d still prefer a series hybrid with a diesel generator and half the batteries. Especially with a with a winter storm bearing down.
Show threadempireOfLove2Jan 21
Plus the hybrids can function as stand in place generators for jobsites and houses. I know their hybrid f150s can be optioned out with 7200w inverter kits that pull from either the battery or engine as needed. You know how many contractors would immediately jump on the opportunity to not have to lug around big ass gensets to multiple jobsites?
Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodJan 21

Yeah, and with a series hybrid you get all the torque benefits of a pure electric. Plus depending on the generator it might even weigh less.

Plus, half the batteries per truck means it’s cheaper.

Show threadFenderStratocasterJan 21
I’d buy that truck over a Slate.
Show threadgivesomefucksJan 21

I was super excited for Slate during the two minute video I saw about it…

Then I found out it was an Amazon truck.

Something like that would cut down a bunch on waste due to used markets for the vehicle and attachments, but jumping into an Amazon properiyory vehicle system is ridiculously dumb.

You’re at their mercy.

Show threadFenderStratocasterJan 21
That and it comes with NOTHING. No radio, no speakers, no paint, no rims, no automatic windows.
Show threadNaibofTabrJan 21

No built-in unreplaceable head unit with bloatware or spyware or un-updatable software, no cell network or WiFi connection, no user tracking and snitching.

The lack of a built-in entertainment system computer is a good thing.

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Show threadKoalaUnknownJan 21
I’m pretty sure they said you can option automatic windows.
Show threadJackDarkJan 21
From my understanding, the Slate truck is financially backed by Bezos, but it is not an Amazon property. That said, it could still very well fall victim to what you’re concerned about. If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me.
Show threadoyoJan 21
The details are kept incredibly private. It’s impossible to know how much Bezos owns.
Show threadNaibofTabrJan 21
One of the major selling features of the Slate is their intention to make the truck as end-user repairable as possible and publish documentation and how-to videos to support that. Whether they actually follow through remains to be seen, but if they do the Slate would be one of the least locked-in proprietary vehicles ever made.
Show threadturdburglarJan 21
but it’s not a truck. it’s an suv with no back door
Show threadHeyJoeJan 21
I feel like anyone who is buying a truck will never want an electric truck and will most likely just be made fun of in all his friend groups.
Show threadMotoAshJan 21
I think that speaks more to the intelligence of trendy truck owners than it does about EVs.
Show threadJackDarkJan 21
I would love an electric truck, and no one in my friends group would make fun of me, because my friends aren’t pieces of shit.
Show thread[deleted]Jan 21
I want a small two door electric pickup truck that is basically the size and ride height of a hatchback but with a bed instead.
Show threadRightHandOfIkarosJan 21
That’s a ute. You can only get them in Australia, AFAIK.
Show threadgrueJan 21
Australia has electric utes now?
Show threadoyoJan 21
No, that’s a pickup truck before the US bastardized them into hulking monstrosities.
Show threadMelodiousFunkJan 21
I miss my S-10 sometimes. Was the perfect size for what I needed at the time.
Show threadturdburglarJan 21

i would buy an electric full bed truck tomorrow if anyone made one. fuck four doors, fuck a short bed. i need a truck to move full sheets of material.

i love my stick diesel 2500, but id go electric in a heartbeat.

Show threadonTerryOJan 21
Prototype stage to be followed by the “Sorry, it will cost $35,000 due to {excuses}” stage.
Show threadJackusflackusJan 21
Sorry but I think you typoed 53,000
Show threadZorqueJan 21
65,000 after EV credits expire.
Show threadblitzenJan 21
They expired last year.
Show threadOptionalJan 21
Cheap EV! Forty thousand fucking dollars including a steering wheel, actual rubber tires, tax and title. What are you poor bastards waiting for?! Get in debt!
Show threadilillilillilillililliJan 21
$0 down and only 120 monthly payments!
Show threadsalacious_coasterJan 21
They’re going to have to get the dealers in line for this to have any chance of success. Dealerships hate hybrids and EVs. I tried like hell to get myself a Maverick hybrid truck. It apparently could not be done without traveling cross-country.
Show threadRightHandOfIkarosJan 21

Probably because they don’t sell very well. At least, they don’t at the dealers I have worked at in South California. Which is like, EV capitol of the world.

Hyundai/Kia, Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler, Jaguar, Land Rover, etc, all couldn’t hit their sales marks on EVs consistently each month, so they inventoried less of them and they usually sat until they were a year or two old and they got discounted. Unless its a Tesla, people just aren’t buying EVs in the volume necessary to justify the dealers liking them. Plus, working on them requires extra safety equipment and training, which costs more money but the manufacturer does not pay or reimburse for any of that.

Show threadWhostosayJan 21

Unless they start getting these costs down by leaning into it, shit ain’t gonna work.

They also are just making the same fucking suv that nobody wants over and over.

Show threadoyoJan 21
The dealerships are actively trying NOT to sell them.
Show threadSupervisor194Jan 21
A car with a trunk that has no lid is not a fucking pickup truck and it never will be.
Show threadHumanPersonJan 21
I can’t find other sources for that image BTW, it may not be that bad but I doubt it will be good.
Show threadscalaJan 21
$30k for a ford. No thanks. Sell it for 12k. Look at all the EVs and UTEs in the east all go between 9-15k. No gimmicks.
Show threadthe_qJan 21
It’s weird American car makers can’t make cheap cars.
Show threadluisgutzJan 21
Or cars: technically, everything they do now are trucks. A legal distinction, but one that matters, as trucks are allowed to be less safe and pollute a lot more.
Show threaddeliriousdreamsJan 21
It's literally them skirting safety regulations. That's not weird. thiat's the American way.
Show threadharkJan 21
Good luck to them, but I have a feeling it will be about double that price when it exits the prototype stage and is actually being sold.
Show threadFredselfishJan 21
Fuck Ford after hosting Trump.
Show threaddan1101Jan 21
Probably going to be four doors and a 4.5 foot bed, to me a decent size bed is the most important part of a truck.