Here comes the electric pickup

[e30addict]

my deadblow hammer is not reporting back to the motherland all of my travel / driving habits....and YES, I do care if they know what I do, I AM that important....

No, but your phone and car already is

[Kurlon]

All the pain points for adoption are almost gone.

Minus that pesky lack of charger infrastructure of any flavor in large areas. NACS doesn't magically make chargers appear where there aren't any right now.

In other news, test rode the new Livewire Delmar S2, oooooooh... I want. Wouldn't be practical, again due to the 100mi est range plus no where to charge it around me, but it's a fun ride, really want to track day it bad.

[e30addict]

Minus that pesky lack of charger infrastructure of any flavor in large areas. NACS doesn't magically make chargers appear where there aren't any right now.
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And when they do all start popping up everywhere they're going to have to be more reliable before the majority will be easily swayed.

[PurplePackage]

Minus that pesky lack of charger infrastructure of any flavor in large areas. NACS doesn't magically make chargers appear where there aren't any right now.

That's kind of, no that's exactly what it does. Where are you going or thinking of going that doesn't have fast charging infrastructure within 10 miles?

[Kurlon]

Um, let's start with my house... there's nothing around me, and unlike my trip to Texas where once I got into the south there were tons of Buc eys with Tesla chargers, there wasn't anything obvious along my way to Florida.

[PurplePackage]

Um, let's start with my house... there's nothing around me, and unlike my trip to Texas where once I got into the south there were tons of Buc eys with Tesla chargers, there wasn't anything obvious along my way to Florida.

Better go and get your complaints to the public, because they're moving you to be 43% EV in 3 years!

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/mai...ctric-vehicles

[jimmycapp]

Um, let's start with my house... there's nothing around me, and unlike my trip to Texas where once I got into the south there were tons of Buc eys with Tesla chargers, there wasn't anything obvious along my way to Florida.

Why would you need to charge near your house?

[e30addict]

Why would you need to charge near your house?

Because not everyone will have the space or financials to upgrade their home. What about the apartment dwellers in town? They would need a sloid public charging network.

[Kurlon]

Better go and get your complaints to the public, because they're moving you to be 43% EV in 3 years!

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/mai...ctric-vehicles

I expect most of these types of laws to get adjusted/repealed as the deadlines get closer and adoption isn't matching targets. Also, in Maine's case, Plug in Hybrids count as EVs in the text of the law proposal I just looked at.

[jimmycapp]

Because not everyone will have the space or financials to upgrade their home. What about the apartment dwellers in town? They would need a sloid public charging network.

I’m not talking about everyone else. That’s certainly an issue for those people.

[csmutty]

Better go and get your complaints to the public, because they're moving you to be 43% EV in 3 years!

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/mai...ctric-vehicles

Good luck with that. How the hell do you expect that to happen?

[e30addict]

Good luck with that. How the hell do you expect that to happen?

Rainbows and unicorns.

[csmutty]

Rainbows and unicorns.

I think there's a better chance of those.

[PurplePackage]

Good luck with that. How the hell do you expect that to happen?

Really depends on what happens on election day. Biden has an agenda to use federal funds (NEVI) for putting a fastchargers everywhere. Maine would literally be leaving free money on the table. If Trump gets in, he will reverse whatever Biden thinks is good, and NEVI is a hill of beans.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment...ogram_faqs.cfm

[typeone]

official Rivian R2 reveal tomorrow @ 1pm EST ... speaking of, i passed a Forest Green R1T on 68 in Roylston yesterday morning. (was in the Gobi Heep)

[csmutty]

Really depends on what happens on election day. Biden has an agenda to use federal funds (NEVI) for putting a fastchargers everywhere. Maine would literally be leaving free money on the table. If Trump gets in, he will reverse whatever Biden thinks is good, and NEVI is a hill of beans.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment...ogram_faqs.cfm

Yeah but you still can't force people to buy an EV...

[PurplePackage]

Yeah but you still can't force people to buy an EV...

Varies by state.

[csmutty]

Varies by state.

That's talking about new vehicles, and assuming that they won't back pedal on those laws.

[TheIglu]

official Rivian R2 reveal tomorrow @ 1pm EST ... speaking of, i passed a Forest Green R1T on 68 in Roylston yesterday morning. (was in the Gobi Heep)

Yup, probably me dropping the spawn off at school.

[PurplePackage]

Rivian overkills its announcement and shows us 3 new vehicles.

[TheIglu]

That R3X is the hotness.

Put in a reservation for the R2, but man, that R3 is what I want next to my R1.

[Paul_E_D]

Wow, that R3X has my attention

[RandyO]

here is reason Toyota hasn't jumped on the EV bandwagon yet

[RandyO]

I think uses the new encabulator

[tls25rs]

That R3X is the hotness.

Put in a reservation for the R2, but man, that R3 what I want next to my R1.

Wow, that R3X has my attention

R3/R3X remind me of a Rabbit GTI hatchback with bigger wheels and tires. Kind of like a Matchbox or Hot Wheels version of one.

I like them.

Make them more affordable than most other electric vehicles and they might be on my radar for my next daily driver work mobile