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Ford CEO says Tesla's Cybertruck is only for 'Silicon Valley people' and he's not threatened by it: 'I make trucks for real people who do real work' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ford's CEO said Tesla's Cybertruck is for "Silicon Valley people" not "real people who do real work."
Jim Farley said Tesla's pickup truck won't compete with the F-150 Lightning.
Tesla is expected to release the EV pickup later this year, but it's been delayed several times.

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[–] LetMeEatCake@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's 40 below out, the vast majority of outside workers should be not working. The vast majority of work that could use a truck is work that isn't going to frequently (or ever) encounter that kind of temperature range. A 600V DCFC is going to charge either of those trucks quickly in the majority of scenarios.

Most truck owners aren't people doing "truck work" anyway, though. They own a truck as a public facing part of their personality. It's virtue signalling.

[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with you that most people driving trucks probably don't need to be driving trucks. My home vehicle is a nice little Corolla that gets great gas mileage.

But reality is that for a lot of workers, the show must go on, rain or shine, heat wave or cold snap. I've had to be that guy -- coldest day of the year and some piece of critical infrastructure is broken, the boss says "I don't care, we need it working, get out there". Temperatures that cold you literally start to feel death's caress. It starts to soak into your meat, and it at some point it doesn't matter what you're wearing.

Days like that, even a diesel is pretty scary, but pretty much no vehicle ever turns off. If it's a gas vehicle at least the block heater can let you start the thing.