I really wish EV manufacturers would get around to targeting fleet pickups. Generic, bare-bones, featureless trucks.
Like Slate? I have high hopes for them but the price is already creeping toward $30K.
I can forgive and even cheer the absolute bare bones amenities it offers including no telemetry for the price. The hardest pill to swallow is the lackluster battery range and max charge rate.
The price leaked at ~$25k
They’ve been hiding behind the chicken tax, aggressively marketing high margin pickup trucks that only appeal to the local market for decades.
They only make 40% of cars sold in USA. Chinese EVs may push them over the edge but they’ve been teetering there since the Japanese invasion in the late 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobiles_manufactured_in_the_United_States
Also, less of, say, the Ford F-150 is done in the US than are Honda’s or Toyota’s models, so at some point, the question of what exactly one means by “US auto manufacturer” does arise.
What does “X country corporation” in any industry mean when they have shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Ireland or wherever tax rates and shelters can be best structured?
Corporations have always been and will always be resource leeches that will abandon a country once they no longer have any blood left to suck. The host organism here in the US has already been overcome and Corps are about to start digesting previously pristine federal lands and forests for mining, forestry, and the critical national interest of off-road ATVing.
There are no “country” corporations, they lobbied to be extra-national deliberately.
American car makings are raping us. It is time for that to end.
Thanks for that.
I mean, this is a more complex issue. We actually need to change transportation and not just the type of motor and Western car makers like in the US or Germany are idiots for sticking to combustion engines. But… It’s difficult to compete with Chinese companies that can utilize slave labor and heavy government subsidies.
They only need to keep it going until the total collapse of civilization due to climate change!
cant be a cheap EV, over overpriced one that nobody wants to buy.
