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Originally Posted by noclue
If you buy a truck for work or daily driving around town in which you do consider the running cost of an EV truck but if it's for pleasure use you want the freedom of a gas truck. Towing? Off-roading up a logging trail? Carrying extra jerry cans in the bed to increase range? Not having to plan precise stops to charge and hoping the charger is working? A F150 with the 136L tank I can drive from Vancouver to northern California in one shot, and with one 10min fill at a gas station anywhere along I5 I can get to San Fransisco by nighttime.
Plus he said his driving is mostly highway so the gas savings is negated somewhat.
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That’s my biggest detractor with EV trucks for me. I think HEHE makes valid points, however about 4-5 times a year I’ll go to the cabin, go hunting, etc. the cabin we go hunting to is hardly “remote” it’s about an hour drive into the bush from Kamloops airport. However, we will drive probably 200-300km during the 4-5 days we are there. It’s basically a house and you could plug 120v in however, you fill up the F150 back in Kamloops and I could do all that driving in the bush, drive all the way home back to Vancouver, and never once think about it.
Same can’t be said with the EV. If I did that once a year, might be a consideration, but 4+ times, nah