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[85_Ranger4x4]

So the same argument could be used in reverse.
If you commute to work 5 days a week for 50 weeks(2 week vacation) a year, an F-150 would cost a fair bit more than an electric.

Still gotta have the truck for moving farm equipment and because it takes at least two days for the county to plow out my road.

The problem I have is I need the truck too much to get rid of it, but I don't need every time I go down the road. Been thinking about adding a car to the mix... don't really know how the extra expense would pay out though.

EVs are getting better, but it gets old people that live in the city thinking they are gods gift to everyone. They are not yet and I don't know if they ever will be.

 

[RonD]

Still gotta have the truck for moving farm equipment and because it takes at least two days for the county to plow out my road.

The problem I have is I need the truck too much to get rid of it, but I don't need every time I go down the road. Been thinking about adding a car to the mix... don't really know how the extra expense would pay out though.

EVs are getting better, but it gets old people that live in the city thinking they are gods gift to everyone. They are not yet and I don't know if they ever will be.

I have a theory about country and city.
It is based on my observation that "common sense" is not what a person is born with but is a something they "draw on" from the area they are in.
There is XX amount of "common sense" per square mile spread out across the earth.
In the country where there are less people per square mile, each person "gets" more "common sense" to draw on.
In the city where there are more people per square mile, each person "gets" less "common sense" to draw on.
This explains things like Starbucks and Malls, also Justin Bieber.

If there is a large crowd of people in one location, then basically you are dealing with a group of morons, each has so little "common sense" available to them that you get "mob mentality", i.e. riots, or cheering for teams like Montreal Canadians, lol.

You have to cut the "city people" some slack, it's not really their fault, they are just mentally challenged in the "common sense" department.

Just my observation, I was a country boy who moved to the city


But on the other hand, in the early 1900's I am sure many country people were doubtful about using gasoline powered equipment vs the good old tried and true horse powered equipment, things change..........they always do.
Although a good horse is hard to beat, it sucks for high mile family vacations, talk about your limited range.....

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

But on the other hand, in the early 1900's I am sure many country people were doubtful about using gasoline powered equipment vs the good old tried and true horse powered equipment, things change..........they always do.
Although a good horse is hard to beat, it sucks for high mile family vacations

Yeah but until cars were refined, priced so common people could afford them and had an infrastructure in place to take care of them (repair shops, gas stations, proper roads...) the horse still looked pretty good vs down a busted down car stuck in a mud road and out of gas. Ironically EV's have many of the same challenges right now.

 

[RonD]

Yeah but until cars were refined, priced so common people could afford them and had an infrastructure in place to take care of them (repair shops, gas stations, proper roads...) the horse still looked pretty good vs down a busted down car stuck in a mud road and out of gas. Ironically EV's have many of the same challenges right now.

Yes, which was the point
They are getting close enough to practical to have a look

 

[b3kmazda]

Get a Volkswagen Wolf. 75 mpg on a small turbo diesel. Ruins the numbers for hybrids and electrics.


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[bobbywalter]

75 mpg wolf?



1 seater? motorcycle??

 

[RonD]

Get a Volkswagen Wolf. 75 mpg on a small turbo diesel. Ruins the numbers for hybrids and electrics.


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Volkswagen Wolfsburg editions

The 77mpg record was set with a stock Volkswagen Passat TDI Clean Diesel, using driving techniques every one CAN use, but don't, lol, you know, the people who OBEY the speed limit or drive below it and the ones that get honked at because they pull away from a stop light at the speed of a snail.

The vehicle and engine they used for this test is rated as 43 mpg on highway for "normal" driving.
Which is still an impressive number.

But the comparison is not valid, electric vehicles have gone 1,000 miles on a charge, record attempts are great but are not "real world".

Simple fact of the matter is that we are still making more people and cars, and the oil supply is not increasing, economic "supply and demand" for oil has shown only one trend over the last 100years, price goes up
Limited supply + more demand each year = sellers market

 

[bobbywalter]

hmmmm.



most supply is state controlled....and i am not talking united states or canada. its not a true free market so free market principals are not a true guiding factor.. but...yeah, cheap oil is gone.

the cradle to grave pollution of this is very real. electric in current forms is more toxic vehicle for vehicle...equal work or a typical lifecycle.


but that i am sure will change.


i personally would run 4 50-60 hp hub motors and a natural gas/diesel/electric hybrid....and will when i can afford it. probably will have to like it or not before too long....

 

[bobbywalter]

oh...and i had a wolfsburg vw diesel rabbit at one time. it could get 50....but 40 ish was the normal.


vw wolf....and wolfsburg i can not see as the same.


i had some guys tell me it must have had the engine swapped because the wolfsburg did not come in diesels in the 80's....i dont know or care....but it was definitely slower then smoke off a steamin pile o shit. but fun none the less.