Then why is it so important to go 400-500 miles on an eight minute charge? Sounds like you just want to justify not wanting an EV.
Edison Motors announces their pickup truck kit
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Then why is it so important to go 400-500 miles on an eight minute charge? Sounds like you just want to justify not wanting an EV.
Is that a self imposed OCI? The ALH engines call for 10k. I've seen engines with 500k+ that loosely follow that. One guy I do his timing belt for runs about 60k miles a year and changes it at 15k. Like a pre emissions CTD, ALH platform is a good engine and easy on oil.
Thays how long it takes me to fill my vehicles, why do ev people constantly think it's acceptable to take hours to charge a vehicle? I don't have that time to screw around everyday, when I need fuel I stop and get it, not wait at the charger forever to get 50% charge.
I guarantee you spend waaaaay more time standing there pumping gas or diesel than I ever do charging. It's not even in the same ballpark. It's literally seconds to plug it in when I get home. If you're truly driving that much you're spending what, 10 minutes a day on average at the gas station?
Takes as long to plug in your car as it does to plug in your phone, and your car starts every day with a full "tank" right from home. You don't have to go anywhere else to fill up, like you do with gasoline or diesel.
Unless you're emptying the tank and having to refill mid-day, it's really a non-issue. It'd probably save you time. It's one of the things I'm looking forward to when I switch my daily commuter to an EV.
Im not really sure why they would recommend that, other than being proactive I guess. Those engines are not known for fuel dilution nor do they shear oil down like some other engines are known for.
I do annual changes on pretty much everything because I don't meet the mileage intervals anymore, the Jetta being the exception. Wife's Explorer is 7500 miles and we do about that annually being that's generally our road trip vehicle if we aren't dragging the camper somewhere.
So I'm supposed to accept that flawed logic, plug my car in every night and hope I make it through a day's commute without needing a charge? So what part of that meets my criteria for acceptable charge time? I clearly said when they charge in 8 minutes, and have a 400-500 mile range. Untill thats met, you're both delusional that i will have one in my driveway. Sliding standards do not sit well with me. I don't charge my cell phone daily and I sure as hell won't be plugging my car in daily either.
My man, no need to get defensive. We don't care what you drive. You brought up a 100% valid concern, and we discussed why it probably wouldn't be a problem for you. It definitely wouldn't be a problem for me.
Im not being deffesive, I'm being realistic. Need to understand one thing, I want the same convenience as my gas and diesel vehicles. Plugging in at home is not one of them, needing to charge for hours is not one of them, range that sucks isn't one of them. Bring something to market that offers all that and I'll be standing in line to get one.
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Edison is partnering with Deboss Garage to R&D the pickup truck conversion kits.
The "pickup truck" kit will actually be a medium duty kit and rated for F450-650 trucks, because service trucks and occupational trucks are where this conversion is going to make sense, and where the $$$$ will be. You can oversize axles, but can't undersize them. You can put a F550 axles under your F150, but you can't put F150 axles under your F550. At the same time, the axles will be developed with the idea of being put into smaller trucks or vehicles as well, and enough flexibility in mounting points built in to allow that.
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