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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by WJW on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:57AM (#50393987)
I always got the impression that the vast majority of the F150s are never used as trucks either. Americans just like really really big cars because fuel is cheap there and none of the cities are old enough that big cars are impractical.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by SoftTalker on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:12AM (#50394259)
No, the F150 has great sales numbers but this is mostly due to commercial/work use. And commercial buyers need trucks that can tow, haul, be fitted with large toolboxes, booms/cranes, winches, plows, etc. The F150 electric solved none of those problems.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by lyelibi on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:26AM (#50394486)
You're dismissing a cultural aspect of the popularity of trucks in america. There is way more trucks in Texas than say in Indiana, or Massachusetts on the road. Texas is one of the only states where people still drive hummers. They're not all doing off-roads
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by NewJazz on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:50AM (#50394853)
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by SoftTalker on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:33PM (#50396344)
Yeah my neighbor has a Sierra EV truck and he claims 500 miles range towing a camper, which I doubt but he loves it. He's all-in on EVs, has a Volvo as well and solar on his roof to help charge them.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by NewJazz on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:42PM (#50398219)
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by shawn_w on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:03PM (#50395041)
You need a 250 or 350 class truck for a lot of those uses - plows or heavy loads for example.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by SoftTalker on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:35PM (#50396382)
Well that's true. Loads of F150s in service as work trucks though. Potentially many could be EVs but the added cost and need for charging infrastructure for a fleet works against that.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by Powdering7082 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:41AM (#50394720)
Obviously it doesn't affect the electric vehicles but light trucks being excluded from CAFE def did a lot to acculturate americans to always buying a big car

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUV#1980s_to_1990s

Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by gman2093 on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:12PM (#50398618)
This seems to have kicked off a bit of an arms race. Smaller cars are more dangerous to drive as other cars get bigger.
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by achierius on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:57AM (#50394950)
Big cars are certainly impractical in SF, but it's more due to parking than anything else :)
Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by mcdonje on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:29PM (#50401067)
Plenty of our cities predate cars. We were able to bulldoze walkable neighborhoods to build highways through them because of racism.