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BobJudy
The company that just bought the Lordstown plant and equipment says they will be producing electric pickup trucks by the end of 2020. I can't seem to find any advance specs on the vehicles. I am kind of curious about things like range, payload, towing capacity and so on. I know 90% of the pickup trucks sold don't do any more work than grocery hauling. If a normal gas work truck runs low on fuel it takes just a few minutes to fill it up. When a battery needs recharging it take a heck of a lot longer. For the worker time is money and he better not run out of juice half way through the workday. How about the people towing a trailer or fifth wheel - just a couple hundred miles at most and then done for the day? Before all the blackouts California would have probably been their biggest market. Now probably not. I was talking to a young friend at dinner last night and he was pretty happy about this. He bought the stock at 2 and it went up to 3. He made a 50% increase in his investment. I asked him about product details and he had no idea.

So what do you guys think? Practical? Pipe dream? Scam to relieve investors of their money? Bob
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    BobJudy wrote:
    So what do you guys think? Practical? Pipe dream? Scam to relieve investors of their money? Bob

    At this point, maybe some of all the above. But like it or not, electrics are coming. Just like every past major change in industry there will be lots if growing pains. Some people will get rich, many will go broke, but the industry will advance itself in the long run. There was a time in this country that many a farmer gleefully hitched up his team to go pull a Ford Model T out of the mud.......
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  • select-fire
    Screw electric vehicles. I will drive an internal combustion engine till I die if they don't outlaw them.
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  • 4205raymond
    select-fire wrote:
    Screw electric vehicles. I will drive an internal combustion engine till I die if they don't outlaw them.
    +10
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  • Smitty500mag
    select-fire wrote:
    Screw electric vehicles. I will drive an internal combustion engine till I die if they don't outlaw them.

    If you think a gun ban will cause an uprising wait until they try to ban the internal combustion engine. :shock:
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  • nmyers
    It's a "penny stock", not an IPO. Just someone's pipe dream.

    Move on, nothing to see here.

    Neal
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  • jimdeere
    Electric propulsion is at or nearing it?s zenith. It the storage battery technology that?s stagnant.
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  • select-fire
    Smitty500mag wrote:
    select-fire wrote:
    Screw electric vehicles. I will drive an internal combustion engine till I die if they don't outlaw them.

    If you think a gun ban will cause an uprising wait until they try to ban the internal combustion engine. :shock:

    Here is some electric power


    https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=243
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