Another EV truck with a bed too small to haul plywood/drywall.. wtf it might as well not have a bed at all.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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Just shows that people get those trucks because they think they look cool/safer/whatever, not because of any utility.
I'm the first one to admit that the primary reason for buying my truck is because it looks cool. Mine is a 2 seater with a long bed though
I can fit bigger stuff in my crossover with the 2nd row folded down than most of these emotional support vehicles can fit in their bed. And I can rent a truck once a year when I need to move something big. These things are such stupid shapes.
It could have a pass through rear. Similar to the avalanche. I’ve always wished more trucks had that to increase bed size when I need it and don’t need the seating.
The new Chevrolet Silverado EV can do this
It's the only reason I'm kinda interested in one. But otherwise it got beat with Transformers stick like a lot of recent GM vehicles and I hate how it looks.
I think it actually lools pretty good especially compared to Rivian. Just needs few coats of black paint over the light bar and illuminated logo on the front.
You can't fit a full sheet in a dual cab Hilux, Ranger, or DMAX (etc etc) either but these utes sell in vast quantities. To get a dual cab in something not ridiculously large (and not a cab over design) the tray size will inherently be compromised, it seems however that people still go for the extra seats much more than single cabs with more useful tray sizes.
I don’t want a dual cab. I want a single cab with a 8’ truck bed. Aka a work truck
Dumb thing is, there's no engine up front. Its an EV! They could easily slide the cab forward and extend the bed and STILL have a dual cab.
But then you compromise on having the giant dick replacement hood that can hide entire cars from view.
Unfortunately you're in the minority these days, at least in the eyes of manufacturers. It appears that dual cabs are what sell so they're what get made.
The lack of useful tray sizes in utes is one reason I ended up going for a van for something to put my dirt bike in - unlike most of the utes I was finding within my budget it actually has a load space long enough to fit the bike with room to spare and low enough to roll it in easily.
Knowing that work trucks were more popular when they were available a decade or so ago.
And knowing that car manufacturers make more profit per truck when they have more add ons to charge extra for.
I would say I’m not in the minority and that the reason single cab work trucks with a full size bed are not available is because of greed.
The bed on my dual seater Nissan Navara (Frontier in US) is 180cm long and a sheet of plywood or gyproc is 260cm. You can fit it in but got to leave the tailgate open.
It really should just be able to fit a pallet. Not hauling drywall/plywood all that often.
This should be one of the only legal form factors for trucks. I can also tolerate something like a dual cab Sprinter with a flatbed.
So people with small egos can now drive an ev without the fear of being gay
"Hot Wheels! Beat that!"
Good call, I was thinking it was Nerf sponsored.
Hey, the 90s are calling and they want their paint job back!!
Coming to global, but not US markets due to massive tariffs. Too bad we can’t inject some competition here in the states to drive down the price of EVs.
This is like demanding that a new Walmart open in your town to drive down the price of goods. What happens is every small business in town shuts down and then everyone winds up making near minimum wage working at Walmart and then spending half their check buying everything from Walmart because nobody can compete with their artificially low prices. With the Chinese government paying a good chunk of the manufacturing cost of these cars, you're not bringing in competition, you're putting everyone else out of business.
This is why there's barely any manufacturing in the US anymore.
There needs to be more pressure on companies like Ford, GM, etc., who suck at innovation and need competition. Luckily some newer domestic auto manufacturers (Tesla, Rivian) are doing a decent job, but I think the US would benefit from getting some smaller, cheaper Chinese EVs in a similar wave to the Japanese and Korean manufacturers entering the US market.
I wasn’t implying zero tariffs since BYD is absolutely subsidized by the Chinese government, but more competition is always better for the consumer. Too bad we can’t rely on our government to enact laws that actually encourage competition.
These high tariffs are supported by the likes of Tesla and other car manufacturers that have a US presence. Why? Less competition for them.
And manufacturing left the US because of pure capitalism and greed. If anything THAT’S where more tariffs should be applied. Even out the actual cost of these workers.
When that $20/hr job goes overseas for $3/hr, the workers in the states lose $20, and the company profits from that $17/hr savings for “the shareholders”.
That paint job is atrocious.
Its point is to hide the true shape of an unreleased vehicle model.
If they are going to make it that big anyway they should put in stacked seating and a bigger bed, and there can't be any justification for so much space under the hood in an ev so shrink the front to get more room for seating and bed. Or get fucked and stop making shitty giant vehicles for the shitty people that end up buying them. Literally everyone that shouldn't be on the road drives a big and/or expensive car. On my way home today someone in a gas truck that size made the most ridiculous illegal road maneuver I have seen to date, driving in a bike lane to pass on the right or all the car lanes, cutting off and nearly hitting a car turning right from the right most car lane, then doing a U-turn through the intersection from the bike lane to the outermost lane on the other side, nearly hitting 4 or 5 more cars.
We need to legislate these things out of existence. Mandatory sightlines, lower hoods, lowering the CDL threshold for certain size/weight, max headlight height, culling the light truck loophole, etc.
Giant spotless brodozer/mallcrawler trucks seem like they're always driven by predictably shitty douchebags.
Looks like a car from BttF 2