Personally, I think people look like idiots driving around monster trucks for fun. Unless you're actually having big shit to a construction site.
Sad that Ford had to start making the Ranger huge too.
You'd have more torque than is possible, could ditch the transmission/transfer case/etc and it would allow you to build out a platform to understand the motor/electrification side of things with reasonable energy density until the battery curve catches up with high duty cycle usage.
I mean locomotives moved to that powertrain decades ago(which is why the VFDs in current EVs are so fantastic) so it seems like a reasonable way to approach things.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%E2%80%93electric_transm...
If you calculate the battery required to pull that off, its actually insane.
Ford talks a big game about electric F-150 but I bet the numbers will be more limited then many people hope.
Because you don't, doesn't other don't either. Quite the opposite. [and yes, I do need the >2000lb payload capacity.]
And just because Tesla once didn't offer a car with the price they said doesn't mean its some inherent law of nature. Tesla now is a very different company compared to 2017 when they built their first mass manufactured car.
Fact is that Electric F-150 will not be able to compete with the Cybertruck on specs. Tesla will bring its now batteries and new packs and will reach range and performance that F-150 can't match.
They don’t have to compete with the base model. They can compete with the volume model. If they match it on specs and features it’s competitive.
Tesla marketing has a habit of being very ambitious so we’ll see if the range and performance are better in the real-world. They certainly have the technology and battery advantage.
I don’t have much faith in the 40k Cybertruck being widely or readily available based on that. It’s not really a dig at Tesla. Ford makes an F-150 that costs less than $30k, but most sold outside of fleets are higher trims and packed with options.