Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business

hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What I wanted was a nice little ranger style truck - 2 seater, can pick up some lumber, decent sized bed, for in my garage. What they made was a giant crew cab monstrosity that takes up 2 parking spaces and costs 2x what I would have spent.

  Car companies keep trying to tell us customers what we want then are surprised when we don’t buy.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Those giant crew cab monstrosities are the best-selling vehicles in America.

    The problem is that F150 buyers are the very largest anti-EV meatheads. It’s the wrong market for such a vehicle.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This. People either want a giant diesel-guzzling truck, or they want a small efficient truck as their second vehicle for moving things around. Nobody’s looking for a giant EV truck, especially at that price.

      All they had to do was make an EV Tacoma. Instead, they made an EV F-150.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If they had made an event Tacoma I would have bought that instantly

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  • sawdustprophet@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What I wanted was a nice little ranger style truck - 2 seater, can pick up some lumber, decent sized bed, for in my garage.

    The Telo truck looks like it has promise, but it’s far from mass production. I hope it lives up to its promises though, I would love to see small trucks make a comeback.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ll keep an eye out, but yeah looks like I shouldn’t get in line quite yet

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      • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I learned after what I saw with elio.

        Twas sad

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  • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think that’s what we all want. Id be front of line for what you described too.

    I’m really paying close attention to those Telo Trucks, but they are a long way from market (if they make it, we’ve been here before, so many times now).

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You might be interested in the slate auto truck

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve heard good things about it

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Until you see them on roads, pure USA bullshit like the Aptera.

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