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These will be pretty rare in 10 years time if things continue the way they are. That said I’m in a country adopting EVs, so YMMV
I feel like that is happening because people were made aware of the energy security side of running your car on electricity rather than imported fuel
Yeah they’re a major producer, plus the influence from the car lobby there is insane.
Also the tax incentives
Ah, yes, because EVs can’t be made into giant ugly trucks
gahh, every time I see a Hummer EV, I think people can't get stupider
Me too.
And then I see a Cybertruck
OMG, I saw a cyber truck try to randomly go off road at the park the other day. Up a too steep incline about to just tear up the grass. Not an unpaved trail or anything. Just a grassy field, like he can do whatever he wants.
I learned recently that the stated target demographic for the original hummer was "people who didn't serve in the armed forces, but felt like they should" and it's funnier every time I think of it. They knew their market SO well, and I'd been wondering for years "who the hell is this for?"
Yes but, it can crab walk
That’ll happen as well, but at least it’ll be a lot cleaner. I’m still of the mind there’ll be less.
You do have a point though.
10 years? The longer Operation Epstein Fury drags on, these guys will be struggling to gas up in months.
Yeah can’t argue with that
That’s going to hurt too many of the wrong people, unfortunately, for the benefits in the end it will give.
I just hope it doesn’t turn into Kuwait but the whole area.
Yeah, they will get even heavier so you will never see a road without craters in it
Maybe tracked vehicles will come back into fashion. Finally a RAM TANK half-track.
Yeah nah as time goes by it’ll go the other way. Batteries will get lighter as tech improves.
The argument going on about this reminds me of what my grandmother told me about the horse to car transition. Pretty much all the same stuff, including how big they were in comparison to a horse.
But people keep buying bigger cars. We are able to build small cars it's just that almost no one is buying them.
In North America.
Fuckin gold
Well for now BEVs are still much heavier than ICE vehicles. It will take decades for them to finally become lighter than ICE vehicles.
only in the US, where people love tanks and can't do math so they need to carry around 2000lbs of batteries.
Err... Batteries aren't exactly made of air elsewhere in the world either. BMW i4 is 2100 KG empty for the small battery single motor version, 2300 for bigger battery dual motor AWD. 440i with AWD is 1835.