The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[kruddler]

I read if you put a EV battery config in a large dual cab ute you will be adding the weight of a Honda Civic to the Ute.
Our roads are only designed to take a certain weight with regards total car mass and given 40% of new vehicles sold are of the large Ute variety good luck dodging the dents and holes in the roads which means Vicroads will be looking to increase its earnings which means we will all be paying for those EV Utes.
And good luck with the range on those 3.5 tonne unladen full EV Utes with a Caravan or boat attached when your weekend getaway to Knobs creek finds your intrinsic value for Kilometres specified cut by plenty thanks to all that extra weight.
https://www.whichcar.com.au/reviews/2023...ectric-ute
So its not much use for towing or offroad and has sub par handling.....but it will look impressive in the primary school carpark picking up the kids at twice the price of a combustion version and you are doing your bit for cleaner air. Good luck to LDV , they are going to need it....

Adding to the above, if you add that much extra weight via battery to these utes, you have to limit the amount they can carry....which defeats the purpose!