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by trog
657 days ago
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This misses the point and it's why talking about cars is so annoying if you're a person who doesn't give a shit about cars. How often do you tow your utility trailer? If you do it every day because you need it for work, then having a big truck probably makes sense. But if you're like many people who have trucks, you probably do this once a year, if ever, but still feel like you "need" a truck for these occasions. It's like the people in Australia who live in the outback and need to drive 800km every few weeks to drive to a town to buy supplies. Yeh, sure, maybe a diesel ute with a 200L tank is the right choice for you. But it doesn't mean EVs are a complete waste of time for the 90 percent of Australians that live in cities. Most people aren't hauling around a trailer every minute. |
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Nope.
We're in Australia, we have a 35 year old home over built double axle heavy steel frame trailer built to handle off road conditions in the north west; it's got heavy duty leaf springs, slaved brakes, can take some serious load tonnage and gets used weekly (still, and has dome for 35+ years).
It gets pulled by a six cylinder sedan car with a Hayman-Reese tow point and tracking anti sway bars.
It's done well in excess of 3 million km now (been stripped down to frame and rebuilt twice now (new wiring, new brakes, refurb'd springs, etc)).
Don't need a big "truck" (oversized Toorak Tractor).
Well, save for hauling wheat and cattle etc. but we have prime movers + semi trailers for that .. and for fire fighting we have an ex military heavy chassis truck modified to carry 5 tonne of water off road .. but that's a bigger beast than US SUV "trucks".