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Why is Price X + “Delivery Fee”… no if I cannot avoid the fee then that should be in the price. $28,350 + FEE ($1,595) = $29,945 this is the price. Why is it always smoke and mirrors with cars?
- doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish2 days
The US auto industry lobbied many hours and many dollars to set up protectionist laws so that startup companies and foreign competitors were at a disadvantage. These have been the laws so long it hurts.
The Slate startup is doing the same thing, unfortunately. Price was announced as $24,950 and then later the $1450 destination fee showed up in the fine print.
- Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Ew.
Just release an EV Ranger with a diesel range extender option you can set in the bed for long hauls. Make the range extender look like any toolbox.
- 2 days
It looks like it’s intentionally wrapped in a way that hides the proper shape right now, like there’s a plastic bag on the front with something inside making it stick up more. Maybe I’m wrong, but remove all that and I think it’s just generic Ford truck shaped.
- TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
Idk, it’s giving me vibes of lowered trucks from the early 00’s. Pretty dumb but somehow I enjoy it.
- melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
Ford seems desperate to sell now that they’ve made all of their vehicles too large and too expensive for the ordinary citizen. Money talks I guess, but I wouldn’t trust those fuckers. Now Nissan or Honda? I’ll look twice at them when car shopping.
They kinda learned that a while ago, the maverick is one of the best selling trucks on the market right now.
- doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish2 days
As an American, I can imagine. But I’m still making 2003 money so I’m not buying anything this year.
- 2 days
Why would you? The quality is shit and you’d pay far more than what you’d get.
- 4 days
It’d be nice of someone told them you don’t need that big pedestrian smasher grill on an ev.
It almost looks like they have framing to obscure the true shape under the tarps
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
For sure they are hiding the shape. I still wouldn’t bet there’s a reasonably shaped front end under there.
- hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 days
It’s definitely foam blocks to obscure the shape. We use them for camo all the time.
- 3 days
I hate how bad the visibility is in new cars. Tiny windows. Massive hoods. Huge blindspots.
They probably have a frunk up there. But they could have sacrificed a cubic foot and sloped it down for safety and efficiency.
- 3 days
I just want a kei car, or functional public transportation, or sidewalks with trees over them.
I think I’m honestly going to do with an ebike. Car prices have gotten insane lately. I no longer travel across the country for work, and it’s just me so I think I could manage regular small trips to the grocery store and back on a bike that I didn’t have to do all the work to propel.
- DreadPirateSnuggles@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
You might also want to check out Chinese electric scooters.
Appreciate it, but I don’t think I’d be able to understand them because I don’t speak Chinese. ^^
- DreadPirateSnuggles@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
There are importers that get every thing translated. They are also pretty simple. Basically the same thing as an electric bike with a different shape.
I was joking about not being able to understand a bike that spoke Chinese, and your response had me picturing a rickshaw with some other guy running along side to translate between me and the poor bastard pulling me around.
At some point you need to stop letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Bezos is a Slate investor, but that hardly makes a slate something that’s made by Bezos. It doesn’t seem connected to the Amazon ecosystem in any way.
It’s really easy to purity test oneself into complete irrelevance.
- 2 days
“[Don’t] [let] perfect be the enemy of good” is such an overused and rarely useful phrase, most often little more than a blunt object used to insist that people accept tepid compromises rather than daring to demand genuine solutions.
Not that EVs are bad of course, but EVs for ‘everyone’ as opposed to mass transit isn’t a solution (although of course it is a slightly less bleak shade of shit than ICE vehicles for ‘everyone’), and doing that whilst enabling people who are already benefitting disproportionately from the status quo to benefit ever more dramatically is even less of one.
It’s really easy to compromise oneself into complete irrelevance too, and rather easier to compromise oneself into complicity.
Edit: Not to suggest that the worst of this applies to you at all, it was just the nth time of seeing that phrase used frivolously.
3 daysAnything that doesn’t have mandatory telemetry gets my approval. It’s a very low bar to clear but there really aren’t any others trying to do it.
- 4 days
Check out telo - i really like them (wish it were more affordable, but still, if i were to buy a new vehicle, itd be that one once available and vetted)
- cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 days
Telo and Canoo really went back to the drawing board and designed trucks around the skateboard design of an EV. No frunk, front seat as far forward as possible, relatively aerodynamic design. Carbros absolutely hated them and derided them to no end but the only real objection was that they looked so much different from the designs they are accustomed to to, that is, designs tailored to the specific problem of accommodating a large engine block. At some point we’re going to have to leave these designs in the past, it’s just a matter of time.
- grue@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Meanwhile, the past:
Edit: the more I think about it, bringing back the Econoline brand specifically as an electric “cabover” pickup and/or van would be extremely cool.
(It wouldn’t really be a cabover because the thing the cab is over is the engine and an EV doesn’t have that, but you know what I mean.)
- 3 days
Gimme one of those except the cab is over a spacious frunk instead of an engine. Maybe make the frunk a big drawer that can slide out. That’d kick ass and look good doing it.
- grue@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
There’s no room for a frunk; that’s where your legs go. The engine in those things is under the seats and possibly behind the front axle.
[On a related note, that’s why I kinda want a Toyota Previa. With a little modification (only because not all options were offered at the same time/trim level, so you have to swap), you could truthfully tell people you have a mid-engine, supercharged, AWD, manual-transmission vehicle… and then roll up in a minivan!]
- 2 days
I came across this bad boy the other day while looking at kei trucks. It’s an automatic but the right hand drive would add another level in your scenario.
Hadn’t heard of those before. I like the Canoo design immediately, Telo less so but if they ever made a 2 door with a longer bed I’d probably be into it.
- 2 days
I truly appreciate that a company is doing something radically unique and I understand taste is subjective.
That being said: hell no. The Canoo looks like a ski lift gondola with wheels.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
Neither will see the light of day. Canoo is already bust and I give Telo 5% chance.
Yeah, I’m staying the fuck away from Ford or at least the next 5 years. They outsourced all of their design shit to AI and then had to higher engineers back.
- 3 days
That ford CEO is consistently on the wrong side of everything. Not a chance. Not even if you threw in the upgraded aerodynamic cup holders
- invertedspear@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
Marketing execs can’t figure out why the F150 Lightning failed. Is it because they priced it at luxury vehicle prices? Fuck no, it must be because consumers were too dumb and must have thought it was a trim level or something. So this time they aren’t going to reuse an existing name.
The F150 lightning is a fantastic truck. But the first BEV should have been the mid size, and maybe shoot for more range which is what consumers constantly doubt by streamlining the design a bit.
