Peri Hartman wrote: > With electric vehicle sales growth slowing, Stellantis Ram brand has an > answer: > An onboard charger [meaning a hybrid system]. > > As a purist, as I suspect many EVDL members are, I view this as a setback. > However, in general it's probably a good thing because it will mean more > truck-miles driven by battery than we would have with strictly pure EV trucks.
I agree, on both counts. A recent study noted that pickup trucks are the #1 selling vehicles in almost every state in the US. Most pickup truck drivers dislike the poor gas mileage; but are staunchly anti-EV. Making it a hybrid means Stellantis can market it as an ICE that gets better gas mileage. That will strongly appeal to the motor-heads. Who knows? They might discover that the EV mode actually works *better* than the ICE. :-) -- Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James -- Lee A. Hart https://www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
