— 0 to 60 in 3 seconds — but stopping is another matter. “Stopping is terrifying,” Hall writes. “The road runs out quickly when your truck is this heavy and can go this fast, so play carefully.” Even though the truck was equipped with GM’s Super Cruise, Hall still handled all braking chores herself, not trusting the software to bring the beast to a halt when necessary.
“The system can change into a clear left lane on its own to get around slower cars, and it can even detect merging traffic or when a lane ends. However, with the mass of this vehicle, I just don’t trust the braking. Every time I need to stop for sudden traffic, I always take over and brake manually. Perhaps you’ll have a bit more confidence than I did,” she says.The one true thing about an electric car is it ismore efficient than a car powered by an infernal combustion engine.
“I managed a paltry 0.9 mi/kWh during my off-road excursion in the Hummer. Meanwhile, I’ve spent ample time off-road in the Rivian and averaged 1.6 mi/kWh, and that included soft dunes. That’s the Hummer’s average on the street. The Rivian? You’re looking at around 2.3 mi/kWh on the pavement. “Sure, the Hummer EV has that cool rear wheel steering, but that’s really the only worthwhile party trick. In the end, it’s too heavy and big for a lot of trails, the front locker doesn’t engage fast enough, and it doesn’t have a spare tire . Add the lack of confident brakes, and you’re looking at an EV that’s best left in the dealer’s lot.” Ouch! Mary Barra isn’t going to like reading that review.lunch counter, the conversation often turns to a discussion of EVs and size.
We often hear about peak oil, but shouldn’t we also be talking about peak car? Building 78% large cars is simply not sustainable for the Earth. We need to electrify everything, but we also need to mine and refine fewer raw materials and ship them shorter distances. Just going electric so we can all drive a 4-ton battery on wheels everywhere we go is not a solution to global heating. It’s a fool’s mission. We have to do better, and pretty damn soon, too.
Cybertruck will be both tough and efficient, and manufactured in volume. Great functionality without having to buy a gas guzzler. Hummer EV will be nothing more than a footnote in EV history. I concede there is a good argument to not buy a larger battery pack than truly needed.
The cyberwankers are coming. People on Twitter are already announcing their intent to buy one purely for the look. Please, buy it if you can put it to work.
Point is most people should use a lot more efficient vehicles for their daily commute and such. 90% can do with 30% size battery. Yet we are being pushed to buy cars with the range for those other 10% of drives. 'Range anxiety'. Result: lots of wasted resources.
So, how can large trucks and busses go electric?
KetanJ0 These takes miss that huge EVs are generally replacing huge ICE trucks and therefore abating more emissions. If the big resource consuming ICE vehicles could be replaced with smaller EVs that would be great but the emissions issue is being conflated with a wider problem here.
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