NFR Electric Truck

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Long_Rod_Silvers said:
Wait, was this nickelback joke? If it is, well done.
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Uhhmmm, no, wasn't a joke. I watch a lot of science channel type stuff, and a month ago, during a feature on impact craters, they featured a place in western Canada that is famous for its nickel mining. Seems that area is sitting inside a 20+ mile wide impact crater that is very rich in nickel because of the nature of the impactor.
 
Cabezon said:
In theory, I would love to purchase an electric truck or, even better, a hybrid truck as my vehicle to transition to retirement and beyond. There is a charging station where I work, but I need the hybrid to have a range of 30-40 miles, not the 9 mile (15km) all-electric range of the hybrid F-150. The electric capacity in this vehicle appears to be primarily appealing to those who get a boner over horsepower or rocket-like acceleration.
And if a fully electric truck, I want a range of several hundred miles between charges. But the ranges that are now being promoted by the manufacturers are falling significantly shorter under real-world freeway driving (see this review of the Rivian). And the range becomes downright laughable if you are towing a trailer (see review). That won't cut it if I am driving from Western WA to Montana, etc. with even a small trailer.
I suspect that what I want cannot be satisfied by a single vehicle. I want something that has enough battery capacity to be a commuter vehicle (less than 100 miles round trip) and yet have a good-enough gasoline engine (or battery capacity) to not make a 450-500 mile road trip to Idaho or Montana into a multi-day affair of charging and charging and charging. I suspect that I will end up purchasing a gasoline-powered vehicle in the end.
I will keep looking...
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Gonna need A LOT of diesel powered portable generators when this happens…
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So much for going green… 🤦🏼‍♂️
 
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jasmillo said:
We had two of the old VW buses growing up. Not because the parents were hippies (well, actually they kind of were) but because you could get used ones cheap back then and they were easy to work on which my dad loved. Lots of great memories from those old rust buckets.
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Some of us still use them. They still work well and make great fishing/camping rigs if you take care of them.
I took it on an excursion to Wyoming last year;

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Thinking of going green? Thanks to the EV tax rebate you might be able to get this for under $100K. :sneaky:

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Greg Armstrong said:
Some of us still use them. They still work well and make great fishing/camping rigs if you take care of them.
I took it on an excursion to Wyoming last year;

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Nice! Ours were even older than that I believe. They were the ones with the rounded noses. One was all white and was modified to have a bed in the back, as well as a bench with storage. The other was a two toned version (orange and white). My favorite memory of that one was the engine catching fire with my dad driving and the 3 kids in the back. We were able to get it out with sand before the whole thing went up!

It was very similar if not the same as this…

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I think there will be a market to use the new ones in the same way you are using yours. If they design it to be just a cool, urban use only vehicle I think they might have a dud on their hands.
 
Not to sidetrack but why are automakers even allowed to produce passenger vehicles and light trucks with this kind of horsepower???
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jasmillo said:
Nice! Ours were even older than that I believe. They were the ones with the rounded noses. One was all white and was modified to have a bed in the back, as well as a bench with storage. The other was a two toned version (orange and white). My favorite memory of that one was the engine catching fire with my dad driving and the 3 kids in the back. We were able to get it out with sand before the whole thing went up!

It was very similar if not the same as this…

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I think there will be a market to use the new ones in the same way you are using yours. If they design it to be just a cool, urban use only vehicle I think they might have a dud on their hands.
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Those older “bus’s” are very nostalgic and cool! They have a serious cult following and values have gone way up there for the good ones.
There’s a few around with electric conversions. An outfit in Seattle (Peacevans) has one that you can rent.
 
My buddy just sold his Westie down in San Diego for just over 30,000
 
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