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ok ford, now make this fully electric. introducing the ford Maverick, a $20k hybrid powertrain small truck.

Posted by tRuMaN (aka tRuMaN) Jun 8 '21, 11:27

small gas engine powers an electric drive train, means around 40mpg.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/06/fords-new-maverick-is-a-cheap-and-cheerful-hybrid-pickup-truck/ (arstechnica.com)

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I'm not a fan of Ford's but we're getting my wife a PHEV in November and they have the best color Blue I've seen so far in the PHEV Escape -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 12:02 2
- Are they out? None here or there w/nm 100 miles. -- nm - spamlet Jun 8, 12:16 1
  - Oh, definitely not :) -- nm - oblique Jun 8, 12:53
what's with those tiny beds? -- nm - colin Jun 8, 11:28 24
- A large number of people who buy pickup trucks don't actually need pickup trucks. They just like the look. -- nm - ty97 Jun 8, 11:41 12
  - And the perceived safety benefit - Strongbad Jun 8, 12:13 2
    - Compensating…for something. -- nm - znufrii Jun 8, 13:04
    - in texas, everyone believed that trucks were magically immune to ice on the road. - colin Jun 8, 12:14
  - Except when you buy a truck, then you become "the friend with a truck" and have to do a bunch of things. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 12:00 2
    - Hence the tiny bed! - Spawn Jun 8, 12:00 1
      - werd. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 12:08
  - - people + Americans -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:42 5
    - Speak for yourself, Midwest. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 11:52 3
      - Uhm, they are actually *used* out here. *looks at cities* -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:54 2
        
        They are all over here and having seen these people drive; the times you really need them....I wouldn’t trust a single person driving - Will Hunting Jun 8, 12:02 1
        
        they're a bitch to park in garages around here. The F150 is too long for most spaces. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 12:14
    - Canadians, too. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:43
- they're made for tiny people -- nm - decline Jun 8, 11:29 10
  - i only kill and need to transport and bury full size people -- nm - colin Jun 8, 11:37 9
    - Cut them in half. - Spawn Jun 8, 11:38 8
      - Does the truck bed have drainage ports? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:43
      - Or just fold them. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 11:41 6
        
        That works too but I have found it easier to kill someone by cutting them in half. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:42 5
        
        as a strangler, i'm not real big on the cutting. -- nm - colin Jun 8, 11:56 4
        
        Garrote? Just do that to their waist! -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:00 3
        
        I find that they wiggle too much. -- nm - loosilu Jun 8, 12:12 1
        
        You have to be fast, like a marsupial. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 12:18
        
        oh my god i could just choke you -- nm - colin Jun 8, 12:11
But then they would have to make it look ugly. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 11:27
So they did like my Ranger-E idea. Sort of. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:27 5
- yeah sorta. its the same body system as the new Bronco and Escape I guess, so maybe that powertrain option will show up other places -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 11:32 4
  - Doesn't sound like it's even a PHEV, so I'm not interested in buying it in the announced form. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:32 3
    - its basically an efficient generator powering an electric powertrain. not a phev at all. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 11:35 2
      - If I can't plug it in, even just as a local range booster as with PHEV, I'm not interested. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 11:42 1
        
        I understand, its just a nice tech way to improve fuel efficiency in some cars. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 8, 11:43

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