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  • Ford's CEO said Tesla's Cybertruck is for "Silicon Valley people" not "real people who do real work."
  • Jim Farley said Tesla's pickup truck won't compete with the F-150 Lightning.
  • Tesla is expected to release the EV pickup later this year, but it's been delayed several times.
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[-] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

I've not seen somebody driving a ford truck made in the last decade that was doing "Real" work. this includes construction contractors. most the working trucks are Chevies or Toyos. though I'm also seeing an increasing number of Nissan (the NV's)

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

I have. A lot of pickup trucks, for example, are built out of F450s. Old F450s.

The F-150 line is almost entirely vanity vehicles, though, and I have never seen a Lightning on the road but am sure I do not exclude it from my judgment.

[-] skulblaka@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

The Lightnings actually have a reasonable use case as short range delivery fleet trucks. They're not going to go very far but they will move materials across town super cheaply and relatively eco-friendly - provided you have the startup capital to buy a fleet of Lightnings and the charger hookups.

I would not buy one as a consumer daily driver though.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You could buy a delivery van for considerably less money and it is significantly more practical.

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