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Re:What Happened to EVs? by Enginerrrd on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:02AM (#38867059)
I'd really like to see a plug-in hybrid pickup where I can do 10-20 miles on a charge without needing the gas engine to even kick on. I get that by the time you put all that infrastructure in, an engineer starts asking why we don't just omit the ICE and add batteries for range... but I think there is an unmet need. That would allow me to do at least 50-70% of my miles all electric.

I do quite a lot of truck stuff: 2-3 major construction projects a year, gathering / transporting multiple cords of firewood at various stages annually, commercial landscaping, driving forestry roads for engineering work and hunting, etc. And I have a motorcycle that works a lot of the time for commuting needs. BUT, I also have kids and so I do end up needing a passenger vehicle, a need which is unfortunately filled by my truck since my wife has to also commute.

There is no way an electric vehicle would allow me to do the stuff I do. My truck offers 385 miles of range, and I usually carry enough extra fuel to get double that when I go into some extremely remote locations where there will simply NEVER be charge infrastructure. And I absolutely need it sometimes. I saw some poor guy driving that road get stuck in a Tesla out in the middle of nowhere. Not sure what that guy was thinking but he ended up getting towed out after failing to get a charge off of a gas generator after running it for 8 hours. It's bad fire country out there and he's very lucky that wasn't a concern at the time.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by briffle on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:29AM (#38867391)
> I'd really like to see a plug-in hybrid pickup where I can do 10-20 miles on a charge without needing the gas engine to even kick on.

Next year, the 2025 RamCharger

https://www.ramtrucks.com/revolution/ram-1500-ramcharger.htm...

92-kilowatt-hour battery pack paired with a 130-kilowatt generator

Re:What Happened to EVs? by screye on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:01AM (#38868568)
This is the ideal middle ground.

I would like for the market to stabilize around PHEV for a decade while the rest of the infrastructure catches up.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by Enginerrrd on Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:41PM (#38873788)
That looks awesome!