GMC 1000 HP Convertible Super Truck

[furrowtickler]

The big three have been making huge profits off their over the top very expensive trucks that many people drive without a good reason. They have great marketing programs!

They are doing the same with electric plans. All we need is range and something practical to get the job done.

Its great to see all the support for EVs on Agriville! The times must be changing! hahah

As I said , time will tell how reliable they are after two years in a Canadian climate.
Until they are proven through a few cold winters and as Klause said the current power grid is totally not ready.
Not doing backflips yet , but of course they are coming .
And when they prove reliable, cost effective, price still way too high if they are the same as a fully loaded Duramax .... cause they are retarded in price as is .

And there needs to be a plan in place for a major new power source , either Nuke or God forbid..... natural gas plants like the one in NB .
Until all that fall into place , most of this is still fairy tale stuff .
Ohh , and make a 3/4 ton truck like others said that’s practical and I can plug into my shops 220

So that may be 10 years plus

[Klause]

An electric truck doesn't waste power idling at a red light, or stuck in traffic.

Alot of the newer GM vehicles shut off at red lights

True.

Starting a motor still burns fuel, it's not instant on.

If your coasting along at 5km an hr you're wasting a bunch of fuel vs electric too.

Fuel needs to be transported. Electricity runs down wires after the initial generation.


Oil is a finite resource and we need it for a lot of other products... If something better comes along we should embrace it.


How many of us run cordless power tools? 10 years ago we would have all laughed at the thought of trading sir impacts in on electric.

I don't know if many left using air tools.

[bucket]

An electric truck doesn't waste power idling at a red light, or stuck in traffic.

Alot of the newer GM vehicles shut off at red lights

[Klause]

All the comments about the high HP and torque...


Electric motors, especially DC traction, are extremely powerful and can make torque at any rpm.

They don't put out 11,000 ft lbs 100% of the time. Just when it's needed... I bet it takes 30-40hp to keep it rolling down the highway.

Ever run a Milwaukee or metabo drill that'll break your wrist when it jams? That's 18v DC. Now imagine that same tech at 800vdc.

As far as prices go, look at the website. MSRP is on there and it's in line with a high end duramax...


This is GM's electric flagship to show what it can do. I'm sure they'll put similar systems into Sierras and Silverados soon.


Electric vehicles aren't going anywhere and we will all drive them sooner or later.

An electric truck doesn't waste power idling at a red light, or stuck in traffic.


My question and major concern is our electricity grid.

Especially here in SK lots of places have old lines old switches and old small transformers. It'll cost s lot of money to upgrade the whole system at once.

[chuckChuck]

The big three have been making huge profits off their over the top very expensive trucks that many people drive without a good reason. They have great marketing programs!

They are doing the same with electric plans. All we need is range and something practical to get the job done.

Its great to see all the support for EVs on Agriville! The times must be changing! hahah

[furrowtickler]

It does show that electric vehicles are about to make some noise .
Will know in two years how these hold out in a Canadian climate. Let us know Zephyr 👍.
I will wait for the 500hp version or less and a few years. Also if we can actually get a crop without drought , hail , frost or snow ... maybe next year lol .
Electric tractors finally starting to make some headway . The JD autonomous one looks most interesting to me.
But all this will come down to reliability and price though .
Something needs to change because the extreme cost of current emission systems on farm machinery, continued escalating carbon tax’s is going to drain profitability too much in the near future .

[farmaholic]

Why not improve its "energy mileage" and reduce the HP and torque and increase its range.

Yup, a waste of energy.

Does it matter what form it comes in or how it was produced?

[burnt]

Am I alone in wondering what the hell the practical value of this thing is?

rest of original post deleted. Respect to klause.

[LEP]

What a waste imo. Why not build in a regular 2500 chassis? Also why 1000hp. Sales will be right up There with all the muscle cars. They may even get to 4 or 5,000.

If they built a 3/4 or 1 ton that had 2/3 the hp and torque you could add another zero to the sales figures.

[burnt]

I plug my aeration fan in to a power supply that doesn’t need a battery so not really a comparison. But I do believe there will be better batteries if there is enough funding to develop it. And if politics stays out of it developing.

Klaus it’s very difficult to keep politics out of this debate since it is politics that will determine things such as subsidies, infrastructure development etc that will either make or break this industry. It won’t be the technology it will be rhe politics. If it was technology we would have been electric already because it would have been supported to develop a long time ago.

I was kinda wondering the same thing but didn't want the thread to disappear.

But since you raised the question, when was science, physics or simple, hard reality last practically considered in any contemporary topic such as this...