Obviously it doesn't affect the electric vehicles but light trucks being excluded from CAFE def did a lot to acculturate americans to always buying a big car
replyNo, the F150 has great sales numbers but this is mostly due to commercial/work use. And commercial buyers need trucks that can tow, haul, be fitted with large toolboxes, booms/cranes, winches, plows, etc. The F150 electric solved none of those problems.
replyYou're dismissing a cultural aspect of the popularity of trucks in america. There is way more trucks in Texas than say in Indiana, or Massachusetts on the road. Texas is one of the only states where people still drive hummers. They're not all doing off-roads
replyYou need a 250 or 350 class truck for a lot of those uses - plows or heavy loads for example.
replyWell that's true. Loads of F150s in service as work trucks though. Potentially many could be EVs but the added cost and need for charging infrastructure for a fleet works against that.
replyThe f150 did all of that. Range may have been an issue, though.
replyThe chevy/gm ev trucks have bigger batteries.
Yeah my neighbor has a Sierra EV truck and he claims 500 miles range towing a camper, which I doubt but he loves it. He's all-in on EVs, has a another car as well and solar on his roof to help charge them.
replyBig cars are certainly impractical in SF, but it's more due to parking than anything else :)
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