What are you going on about? No one claimed that. You are finding situations were it is not useful. Great, my corvette isn’t useful in the snow, my tesla isn’t great going long distance and my pick up is not the best in tight situation city streets.
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Sorry, after hours away asleep I lost track of the immediate context and thought you were referring to a residential unit.
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Just making another point that EVs are just a virtue signal. If someone lives in a city, never plans to drive more than an hour or 2 in a single day and wants to feel good about themselves by driving electric it works. But it isn’t green and it isn’t versatile.
That isn’t true for everyone. I got one because I don’t drive very far. I charge at my house and cost about 5 dollars a month. The spike in fuel costs last year didn’t even enter my mind. I could care less about being green, and I have one of the quickest full production cars ever made.
An EV would make a great commuter car but a heck of an expensive commuter car.
I used to use a decent used car rather than my best (most expensive) car for commuting myself.
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Reminds me of how Mao told the business owners…the bourgeoise…that they were needed under his new democracy in 1948.
Then he purged their asses in 1952.
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Um, that Datsun was a real pickup. The Ridgeline is unibody construction.
They have a market and purpose.
No need for gov to push or outlaw ICE.
It’s the utopia visionaries hyperventilating.
That does not mesh with my Constitution.
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Government needs to stay out of it.
Gavin Newsom and Brandon do not buy that. 
Newsom is a dictator wanna be imo.
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All it takes is an interest and the market will take care of the rest. You should see the way House Batteries have improved just since the adventure van fad started in 2020.
These morons are destructive in their own stupidity. A danger to everyone around them, for our own good. 
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EVs are a good second car for two car suburbanites with a garage in which to charge their EV. That’s about it. That’s why they have done as well as they have done and won’t expand much beyond it.
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No one is doing that here.
I swear so many on this forum live in a fantasy world.
People need to stop believing all the conservative porn fantasy novels written by the likes of William Johnstone (yes i know he is dead).
The truck was rated at 1/4 ton. I routinely carried 1/2 ton loads by installing coil overload springs mounted on the axel. But the 3/4 ton load was way beyond the capability of those springs as they compressed completely. But it survived the trip home with no problem other than the jarring at every crack across the pavement. Fortunately, I had high load truck tires on the rear.
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As much as I disdain the concept of trying to replace ICEs with EVs (for many reasons) I wouldn’t mind having an EV in something akin to a PT Cruiser with a range of 200 miles or so to tool around town in during the summer. But the price would make it impractical, I’m sure.
That’s a large size load, not a large weight. It’s probably not much more than 250 pounds.
Summed up nicely.
Yeah, but the wind load…
Drive slowly … Force increases with the cube of the velocity. 
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