• Ford’s CEO said Tesla’s Cybertruck is for “Silicon Valley people” not “real people who do real work.”
  • Jim Farley said Tesla’s pickup truck won’t compete with the F-150 Lightning.
  • Tesla is expected to release the EV pickup later this year, but it’s been delayed several times.
    • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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      1 year ago

      Except that generally speaking, your gas tank doesn’t really change capacity that much based on the weather – the fact you have to idle it is obviously a concern, but typically your fuel economy doesn’t dramatically change because the weather outside changes. By contrast, I’ve heard and seen an EV in very cold winter weather basically become a brick until it spends some time in a nice heated space, and then it only wakes up until you bring it back outside and the battery freezes again.

      I’ve done really long road trips in extraordinarily cold weather. I used to live in the far north, and I still work up there occasionally. You’re not losing 80% of your travel capacity or anything like that.