Trivia, but you know that Ford actually had an EV Ranger from 1998-2002.
Sure enough, in 1998, you could choose from two electric pickup trucks — but unlike the S-10 EV, the Ford Ranger EV continued to be produced until 2002.
Since so many people around here get a livlihood out of it I am ok with well managed harvests but cutting old growth and tearing up the earth and using up good water to process tar sands, not to mention carbon impact is demonstrably terrible for the environment. this isn't politics, it's science that everyone who cares about their children's future should take the time to understand, and you don't have to like granola to get that.
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Without starting a debate on this subject in the past I did a fair amount of research on this. If you changed the way the world farms (plowing the earth to turn soil) and let top soil alone and plant as well as also stopped over fishing the seas, a carbon regulator all by itself, the ‘global carbon’ issue would correct itself. The planet has been doing this over its entire existence naturally. Look it up, it’s all there in black and white. It’s just the money made for the fix becomes unnecessary
They were really cool, and -- aero issues notwithstanding -- pickup trucks are a great platform for evs since packaging is simpler and they are already designed to handle load.
There is definetely truth to the part about taking care of soil and oceans since they do provide so much carbon storage capacity (and also because it is the right thing to do anyway) but also without getting into a debate I think the big thing people don't understand is the imporantce of the time scale: the difference between the carbon (air/water/life) cycle which works on order of years and decades and the geological cycle which is on the order of hundreds of thousands and millions of years. Essentially we are taking stuff out of the geological scale and putting it into the air/water scale of time if that makes sense. Basically the problem isn't the carbon itself, it's that we are introducing carbon into the atmosphere at a waaaaay faster rate than the earth can recapture it at. Just think about the energy and resources it takes to extract the carbon and the time it would take to put it back where it came from.
Was it that, or did Tesla just have orders in where other manufacturers cancelled or didn't order more units? I don't know the answer, but I don't think you can just go find another manufacturer that easily.
Q1 earnings report says
Copy, so perhaps Tesla is just more agile, or don't have the same engineering processes set in stone. Interesting.
Not a fan boy, but the two positive things I think you can say about Tesla is that a) they are wizards at securing supply chain, and of course they are also much more
