Tested: How Towing Affects the Electric Pickups—Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and the Ford F-150 Lightning

Car and Driver | August 16, 2022 | DAVE VANDERWERP

[Cowman]

Not only personal transpo. Remember the dollar is tied to oil since Bretton Woods 2. If you collapse the oil industry you collapse the dollar and it will no longer be the standard currency of the world.

[absalom01]

Average interstate mileage on a mostly flat route (say Houston to Florida) is roughly 15 mpg. With the trailer it’s a shade over 10.

Add a grade and all bets are off..can be as low as 8 with the airstream in tow.

[old-ager]

And charge in ten minutes at any gas station

[Cold Heart]

I believe the term “he” used was , “fundamentally change”.

[dragnet2]

I read on some of the higher end model EV’s, you can program in what type of horn sound you prefer. The Arabs seem to like the realistic sheep horn. Of course some people in big cities prefer the shotgun blast horn.

[JimRed]

Is the Hummer’s significantly larger battery also more likely to burst into flames?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Basically having both an EV and an ICE is the best of both worlds. ”

If you only need to make short trips.
And the rest of us are paying for that vehicle with the large subsidies they get .
I think electric vehicles would be great. In 30 years when the technology is ready.

[central_va]

Plus all the rolling virtue signaling you get to do....

[Reno89519]

These are perfect for the wanna be truck and off-road drivers that have their fancy vehicles all tricked out but never tow with them or drive them off pavement. They are perfect, but expensive, around town cars. Nothing more.

Why no hybrids? I have a Toyota hybrid, get nearly 60 miles to a gallon. Great daily car around town and for simple road trips. Curious why no trucks or 4x4s.

[kvanbrunt2]

well taking a month to go the coast is still better than walking./s

[bray]

Where can you go with only a 100 mile round trip?

[absalom01]

Nowhere.

It’s not fit for purpose.

[patriotfury]

🤣👍

[DAC21]

“Add a gasoline powered generator and a 20-gallon gas tank.

Oh wait, that would kind of defeat the purpose”

That is a hybrid and the only Car / SUV I’d consider. 50 MPG, 600+ mile range on some sedans.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My 2011 GMC does just fine with 53,000 miles on the clock.

Wish it got better mileage...

[moovova]

I’m OK with folks buying EVs. I would even consider a reasonably priced one for local driving. Might even be kind of neat. What gets my back up is the govt pushing these things. Let the market decide, unassisted & unmolested, whether EVs make it or not.

(The wife had a Prius. I picked on her about her “roller skate”, but it was a great little car.)

[Rappini]

Don’t panic folks it’s just a fad. Wait until they have to replace batteries.

[Tell It Right]

If you believe as I do that things like tax credits do nothing but raise the price, then the $7,500 tax credit had no bearing on my decision to buy an EV. The seller probably raised the price by $7,500 anyway.

I'm with you -- get rid of the subsidies. All they do is give taxpayer money to the car makers. I'm just saying that EV's bring something to the table beyond virtue signaling to people who believe in warmageddon. If you need 2 cars anyway it's worth considering one of them being an EV.

[Tell It Right]

I can’t stand that stuff. I wish I had a dollar for everyone who assumed I voted Dim because they saw me get out of my EV. I tell them in all honestly that my first vote for the Dims will be sometime after I die.