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Originally Posted by redpoint5
That's a problem for you and those that pull campers. My guess is the majority of trucks are used to commute in, or light duty hauling of Home Depot goods. An EV truck will be perfect for contractors. I've got a Cummins full-size truck that I intend to never travel more than 150 miles round trip in.
Perhaps Elon made the $50k comment assuming battery prices would continue to decrease rapidly. Achieving that price point requires a sufficiently affordable battery.
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Well you're partly right, plenty of people use pickups as road warriors too, just driving empty down the highway for long road trips, which again isn't all that practical in an EV. For shorter trips with heavy loads, EV would be great, even a hybrid to extend the range: there's a reason modern heavy equipment often uses electric motors in the wheels and the diesel engine is just a glorified generator