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I don't know about the car market in the US enough but Tesla seems to be in the premium segment - are the trucks people buy for this kind of work in the price range of this thing ?

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100% absolutely. See [1]. People spend an absolutely stupid amount on trucks - basically no one gets the base model and the average sale price for an F150 is north of $45k. It's one of the reasons Ford is focusing on the truck segment - the margins are way higher than for mass market sedans.

[1] https://www.kbb.com/car-news/pricing-your-next-ford-f-150-it...

Yes, people foolishly gravitate toward trucks and SUVs, fattening the wallets of the car manufacturers and fueling the insanely stupid 7 year auto loan industry [1]. Of course, this is also disastrous for mitigating carbon emissions [2]. Additionally, they are a menace on the roadway through increasing pedestrian accidents and death [3] and likely increasing cyclist deaths [4]. They should be much more heavily regulated, for commercial use only, and require special licensing requiring regular accident avoidance training/testing.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/america-s...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...

3. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/05/09/study-links-rise-of-s...

4. https://nypost.com/2019/10/24/transportation-chief-says-suv-...

Have you seen the work trucks some guys have? $40,000 doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

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