I'm surrounded by ranchers mostly driving very expensive diesel pickup trucks. They're not going to buy electric for cultural reasons, but the price seems in the ball park of the vehicles they're already buying.
I know there is a strong desire to hate on rednecks, but farmers/ranchers are extremely quick to pick up on reliably useful technology, and that would include EV trucks. They will sit back and wait for a generation of trucks to show them they are worthwhile.
I'd be interested to know where this is, and what it looks like. I haven't seen this, and while I don't live in rural area it is a big agricultural area and is fly-over country to most at HN. Maybe this is specific to certain brands of electric cars? Or maybe the 2018 and later Nissan Leafs aren't distinctive enough to immediately identify as electric?
It’s absolutely hate bread by a superiority complex.