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Originally Posted by 86MLR
How do the batteries last, a few mates have elec vehicles, their main issues are always battery related, losing the ability to fully charge, like up to 50% over only 3 years.
IIRC one went from a range of 250km down to just over 100km.
Disclaimer: these were mainly micro type cars, the Nissan leaf and the Mitsubishi i- m???
New battery packs are stupidly expensive to replace.
I'm all for elec vehicles, but, how are the batteries holding up in cold weather, we don't really have cold weather here so I have no real experience with that.
Cheers
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Those microcars are not designed for longer travel, they don't have large battery cells with the internal controllers and cooling and heating to prevent cells dieing either. Tesla and rivian and other companies use a heating and cooling system in the battery packs so they perform fine in cold weather.
Also warranty wise they all these companies have battery warranties ranging from 5-8 years so honestly if your friends were having charge issues they should've been able to get it taken care of. I know tesla replaces the battery pack and then sends the old one off to panasonic to be rebuilt and older cells get recycled. That helps considerably with the cost.
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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR
Or... how annoying will it be to tow cars with one long distances?
My truck is basically a tow vehicle.. 15 years old and 76k miles. I think it'll work great for those "city truckers" that just HAVE to use a big ole truck to drive to work though.
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Originally Posted by humfrz
Not only that - it is just WRONG!
An electric pickup truck!
* just HOW are you going to look like you have big balls when you climb down off an electric truck?
* the power will be reduced to nothing after you put the giant wheels on it!
* just how are you going to "coal" someone with an electric motor?
It just ain't right - 
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In the electric sectors defense, the rivian has the same towing capacity as the tundra and ram 1500. Torque and HP are a non issue, electric motors in those are well over the 700hp and 9000 lb-ft of torque mark instantly as well. I'm unsure how they'll do range wise, but I can assume if you cut it's supposed range in half to 200 miles of towing it's still not that bad. I'm not sure what the diesel or gas equivalents do while towing as all their ranges tend to just be with there largest gas tank configurations and not accounting for towing either.
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Originally Posted by stevesnj
Thanks, I may be lurking every once and a while, and thanks for the well wishes.  |
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Originally Posted by stevesnj
Nah, no Supra. When I get back on my financial feet again I'll go Supra, Tesla or RIVIAN.
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Darn, hopefully RIVIAN can last long enough to be a contender
Good choices, hope to see you head back to the forum and tell us what you end up choosing when things get better!