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[Guest]

On the CBC today:”Family ditches electric truck on drive fro east Winnipeg to Chicago after charging troubles.”

Highlights. Person bought the truck for $115000 in January. Spent an additional $16000 installing chargers at his home and business and upgrading his electrical panel. Truck has a rated range of 515 km. Left on his trip. First charge at Fargo North Dakota. 350 kms, charged from 10% to 90% for $56. The trouble began in Albertville, Minn., the only fast charger brought up a faulty connection message on his truck. Headed to another charger in Elk River, Minn., it wouldn’t work either. With 15 kilometres left on his battery and no fast charger in range he got it towed to a Ford dealership and rented a Toyota 4Runner to finish his trip. Now he just uses his truck to commute 100 kms round trip daily to work. A very expensive vehicle for this purpose lol. Obviously real life experience showed the rated range is exaggerated.

My baby duramax would have took 31liters of diesel ? How I; *** is an EV cheaper to drive at $56 to charge and 35% higher purchase price ???
Chuck ? , anyone ?
And this is on the “trusted CBC?”

[chuckChuck]

Lots of very expensive high end ICE trucks on the road that cost a fortune to own and operate. But cost and fuel efficiency seems not to be much of a concern if you look at truck consumer behaviour.

Toyota is going to offer a range of low emission vehicles options including full EVs and hybrids so that you can choose the best fit for your needs and location.

With the new solid state panasonic battery technology coming in 2027 range will increase and charging time will decrease.

[shtferbrains]

[furrowtickler]

Wrong
Consumers know that current EV batteries are useless in Canadian winters and have only 1/2 the range . So until this new “proposed” battery technology is readily available and proven to work in our climate things won’t change

[furrowtickler]

Why don’t you own a full EV chuck ???? Answer that and you have your answer
Ya , lots of hybrids out there , blah blah
My wife will probably get a hybrid for her next vehicle, they kinda make sense
I am currently looking at an F150 hybrid, actually later today .

[Guest]

They are only good for city driving otherwise they run on gas on the highways
Two here and they show 18 litres per hundred

[Guest]

And still have the cold battery problem

[furrowtickler]

Trying hard to find a 3L Duramax , like hens teeth

[Hamloc]

Lots of very expensive high end ICE trucks on the road that cost a fortune to own and operate. But cost and fuel efficiency seems not to be much of a concern if you look at truck consumer behaviour.

Toyota is going to offer a range of low emission vehicles options including full EVs and hybrids so that you can choose the best fit for your needs and location.

With the new solid state panasonic battery technology coming in 2027 range will increase and charging time will decrease.

Chuck2 is it solid state batteries that VW and Stellantis are planning to build in Ontario? Always future solutions Chuck2, never in the present!?!? Always computer models not real numbers. And when I present real numbers like coal generation plant construction in China, nothing but crickets!!

[sumdumguy]

Hybrid Jeep will make it from White City to almost Lumsden on a charge.