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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
George, you can't take a multi-million dollar race car and extrapolate those results to apply to every car with an electric motor. It's apples and oranges. Electric cars still haven't overcome the obstacles to widespread acceptance that plagued them a decade ago. Hybrids are a nice stopgap but often times don't pencil out compared to an economical car with internal combustion.
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Why do electric cars/trucks have to be on par in every aspect with ICE?
There is a slot that is being filled, and that slot is going to get bigger and bigger.
I'm not cheering it on, but it is going to happen, even the so-called hybrids are a stopgap measure.
For instance, Chevy is selling or will soon be selling full sized hybrid pickup trucks.
In addition they are selling the Silverado chassis to a company making a full electric version.
https://www.rivian.com/
Rivian to make all-electric pickup trucks with up to 450 mile range starting at $50,000 at old Mitsubishi plant
https://electrek.co/2018/05/24/rivian-all-electric-pickup-truck-price-450-miles-range-old-mitsubishi-plant/
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Range: 200 miles to 450 miles depending on the battery configuration (80 kWh and up)
Acceleration: 0 to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds for top version to less than five seconds for the base version
Autonomous driving: Level 3
Price: $50,000 to $90,000
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2.8 seconds 0-60, even if the final number is double that, still faster than anything we would have dreamed of +12 years ago.
Just say'n.
Jan 17, 2018
New 2019 Chevy Silverado pickup: planned for all powertrain types
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1114845_new-2019-chevy-silverado-pickup-planned-for-all-powertrain-types
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Parts of the outgoing 2018 trucks, he said, date back to the "GMT-400" series introduced for 1988. The new design has eliminated those, Herrick said.
"We looked at all possible propulsion units" while designing the new pickup, he said. "There's nothing that doesn't fit" into the truck's basic architecture.
That includes not only 6- and 8-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines, he acknowledged, but everything from 48-volt mild hybrid systems to hybrids, plug-in hybrids, battery-electrics, and even hydrogen fuel cells.
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