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I watched the commercial this person is charging up there car. 15 minutes and I can go 100 plus miles. Wow. That’s great. BUT I can gas up my pickup truck in less then 5minutes and go over 400 miles. That should be the follow up commercial
Sorry I think I posted this in the wrong forum.
 
I guess electric works for some people. There is a tesla dealership in a town close to me, a bunch of charging stations. Mostly empty but alot of tesla cars running around. Wouldn't work for me. I normally tow a trailer or camper with my f350. Wife has a Yukon xl, she can tow the boat!
But I do have an electric golf cart for the campgrounds.
 
Electric might make sense for some depending on their driving habits. My young urban dwelling nephew loves his Tesla. But I'll never go fully electric. I have driven a few hybrids and might consider one if I ever stop pulling trailers. But I'm an old phart who loves gasoline powered cars and trucks and that's all that's in my current fleet.
 
I don’t even think I can drive an electric car. Don’t you need a smart phone? I don’t have one plus I think they are for the young kids. When we were young we worked on our cars. The kids today don5 wan5 to work on cars they want to play with there phones.
We changed the mufflers and love to do burn outs if you got ten extra HZ
YouTube were happy as $&*#
They are good for golf carts. I think that how they got started. I use to go to big share houses and they had carts that were electric but ran off car batteries they were fun to drive in 5he whse. But not for you everyday car. They are ugly and if 5hey catch fire. Your done. To expensive 5o replace the batteries. I don5 like them at all
 
Modern gas powered vehicles are complicated enough. My buddy and his wife both have Teslas. She recently hit a deer and he needed to jack the car up to secure a dangling foglight (or some light) just so it would be drive-able. The battery is located under the floor, so you have to have "jack pad adapters" in order not to damage the battery. He didn't have any but figured out how to make his own. I believe he said he was going to use wooden dowels and hockey pucks. Seems like a decent amount of trouble just to jack the car up.....
 
I have NO interest in an electric car or a newer hi-tech gas vehicle. A buddy just swapped out his Expedition for a newer one. It has a 10 speed transmission, unlocks when you walk up to it with the key fob on you, must have 50 electric motors in it that work EVERYTHING, and tons of obnoxious features.

I bought my 2000 Tundra with less than 100k on it from my sister-in-law 5 years go, in the family since new and I expect it to last until I’m either croaked out or drooling down my shirt and can’t drive. New lower ball joints in the shop with my son tomorrow, timing belt soon, new rear springs after that (gen 1 Toyota trucks well known for bad springs if hauling loads). Even this rig is a little techier than I like, but I can work on it and it does what I want. Repairs are CHEAP compared to a new rig and the more of them I do, the better I know the truck.
 
I've got a good one - My daughter and I were at an event and I needed to run an errand in her car. Started up, then she needed her purse so I handed it off. Got to my errand, but when I come back to the car - I can't start the car......no key fob! :LOL:
 
Exactly, and when the key fob battery goes dead? How vulnerable do we want to be to tech stuff? I see ads for really rebuilt/restored Land Rovers and Land Cruisers - I wonder if there’ll be a business opportunity rebuilding the old units Step, Oteps, I and a bunch of us love from the past? Start with a key, you can see and reach the spark plugs, you turn on the headlights manually when you need them . . .
 
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