And historically speaking the tow capacity of Wranglers was around 2,000 pounds max it may be even less now .
Exactly, they're barely rated to tow a little teardrop.
Yeah imagining the entire interior full of batteries and the beefed up suspension to carry them all.
They can do the packaging, it's just a major tear up, and why? For 4 years of production and another 30-40k units?
That's correct. Ford, GM, and Stellantis have all said they are losing profits on EV programs, which is why many EV projects are being delayed or canceled. Towards the end of his time, even Carlos Tavares said that pushing EV wasn't sustainable.
Carlos Tavares was starting to see the light at the end of his reign. In several 2024 interviews, he mentioned that EV batteries were simply too heavy. At one point, he talked about needing to wait for a breakthrough in battery technology before going to the next level in EV development, which he thought would be 10 years. He felt that batteries would need to be cut down by 50% before it could be considered 'green'. It's interesting to see how optimistic he was in 2021, but by 2024, he had pivoted away from the EV push.
If green was the priority almost everything would just be a plugin hybrid with about 30 miles of range and an efficient gas engine. You can make 5-10 phevs for 1 ev, and run significantly more miles under electric power everyday as that is the majority of most people's daily commute and uses 1/10th to 1/5th the battery of an EV. Plus wouldn't need as much new infrastructure, no range anxiety, easier to incorporate to average homes since you won't need a 50 amp specialty charger or any of the other ev drawbacks.But its so green...Bwahahahaha
Complex sure, not sure how you can say inefficient though other than you just don't like them because reasons lol.If green was the priority nothing would be a PHEV, it's the most complex, inefficient way to move a vehicle
It's wild to assign a whole set of values to me off one post of mine that you read, when I have about twenty just in this thread alone.
No values assigned. I agree it can be more complex than a straight gas drive train but complexity =\= inefficiency. Yes they're more complex, but a modern diesel is significantly more complex (and newer technology than a hybrid actually) than a gas car but it doesn't suddenly make it less efficient either.
