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Old 02-04-2019, 01:20 AM   #65 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JSH View Post
It is way cheaper to just pay the fine then to make an electric truck. An extra $55 added to the MSRP gets lost when the average transaction price for a full size truck is $39,000.
Even though some MPG improvement would be desirable for the average Joe who gets a truck to haul a handful of grocery bags once in a while, and considering that a contractor would most likely get an F-250 instead of an F-150, it sounds like even some technical improvement way less radical than switching to a full-EV becomes hard to justify from the standpoint of the bean-counters.
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