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Ford Teases New Details About Its $30K EV Truck Coming Next Year
Last week, Ford revealed a few more details about the $30,000 electric mid-size pickup truck it will launch next year. The company invited reporters on a curated tour of its new Electric Vehicle Development Center in Long Beach, California. That facility, which officially opened last August, unites all aspects of the EV development process in two buildings totaling 250,000 square feet.
Did we see the finished EV pickup? Nope. But we did get a quick “surprise” glimpse of a heavily camouflaged development mule traveling through the yard between the two buildings before it vanished through a door. It was enough to persuade reporters that the new EV would visually resemble a traditional truck from a distance.
Read more here.
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$4.55 Gas Still Isn’t Convincing America to Buy EVs
Kids say the darndest things, Art Linkletter used to say, and it’s also true that the car-buying public believes the darndest things about electric vehicles. For instance, in a new Bumper.com survey of 2,228 people conducted between April 3 and 6, two-thirds of respondents said that owning an EV would not save them money in fuel costs. “No difference vs. gas,” said 67.4 percent of those surveyed, getting it profoundly wrong.
That’s amazing. Could Americans simply be massively misinformed? The other 32.6 percent in the survey thought they’d save some moolah, but not a lot—most say less than $500 per year. The actual number is closer to $1,000, though it obviously depends on how far you drive annually, electricity rates in your area, which gas car you’re switching from, and what happens with gas prices. Speaking of which, on May 8 the national average was $4.55 per gallon. Californians pay more than $6. Prices are up approximately $1.40 from a year ago.
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Your EV Battery Probably Isn’t Dying Anytime Soon
Turns out your EV battery is probably pretty healthy. One of the many potshots taken at EVs when ownership first became more widespread 15 or so years ago was that the battery would die and it would cost more to replace than the car was worth. Turns out those web commenters were wrong.
“The average EV retains 97% of its range after three years, and 95% after five years,” said Seattle-based tech company Recurrent, which has been tracking the batteries of more than 30,000 privately owned electric vehicles for the last six years.
Read more here.
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