01-30-2019, 02:15 PM
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medium and heavy duty
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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
Medium and heavy duty pickups that hotshot time sensitive loads come to mind. Batteries are chemistry limited. Sure, lose some of your payload to get yourself a 500 mile towing range. That's fine for contractors who put around a work site drinking coffee and surfing their tablets. Some of us idle the diesel with a 6000 watt inverter running a work crew all day and into the night. Then we pull the 20,000 lb trailer to grab another piece of machinery to bring back to the shop 200 miles away. Of course, this is in the middle of the Mojave desert. Not a charging station in sight.
I'll take my concentrated energy in a jug.
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I was limiting the conversation to an F-150.
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