Leaked images tease BYD's first electric pickup, coming to global markets this year
Leaked images tease BYD's first electric pickup, coming to global markets this year
New images are showcasing what appears to be the first all-electric pickup model from Build Your Dreams (BYD). The camouflaged...
Another EV truck with a bed too small to haul plywood/drywall.. wtf it might as well not have a bed at all.
Just shows that people get those trucks because they think they look cool/safer/whatever, not because of any utility.
I'm the first one to admit that the primary reason for buying my truck is because it looks cool. Mine is a 2 seater with a long bed though
I can fit bigger stuff in my crossover with the 2nd row folded down than most of these emotional support vehicles can fit in their bed. And I can rent a truck once a year when I need to move something big. These things are such stupid shapes.
You can't fit a full sheet in a dual cab Hilux, Ranger, or DMAX (etc etc) either but these utes sell in vast quantities. To get a dual cab in something not ridiculously large (and not a cab over design) the tray size will inherently be compromised, it seems however that people still go for the extra seats much more than single cabs with more useful tray sizes.
It really should just be able to fit a pallet. Not hauling drywall/plywood all that often.
This should be one of the only legal form factors for trucks. I can also tolerate something like a dual cab Sprinter with a flatbed.
So people with small egos can now drive an ev without the fear of being gay
"Hot Wheels! Beat that!"
Good call, I was thinking it was Nerf sponsored.
Coming to global, but not US markets due to massive tariffs. Too bad we can’t inject some competition here in the states to drive down the price of EVs.
This is like demanding that a new Walmart open in your town to drive down the price of goods. What happens is every small business in town shuts down and then everyone winds up making near minimum wage working at Walmart and then spending half their check buying everything from Walmart because nobody can compete with their artificially low prices. With the Chinese government paying a good chunk of the manufacturing cost of these cars, you're not bringing in competition, you're putting everyone else out of business.
This is why there's barely any manufacturing in the US anymore.
There needs to be more pressure on companies like Ford, GM, etc., who suck at innovation and need competition. Luckily some newer domestic auto manufacturers (Tesla, Rivian) are doing a decent job, but I think the US would benefit from getting some smaller, cheaper Chinese EVs in a similar wave to the Japanese and Korean manufacturers entering the US market.
I wasn’t implying zero tariffs since BYD is absolutely subsidized by the Chinese government, but more competition is always better for the consumer. Too bad we can’t rely on our government to enact laws that actually encourage competition.
These high tariffs are supported by the likes of Tesla and other car manufacturers that have a US presence. Why? Less competition for them.
And manufacturing left the US because of pure capitalism and greed. If anything THAT’S where more tariffs should be applied. Even out the actual cost of these workers.
When that $20/hr job goes overseas for $3/hr, the workers in the states lose $20, and the company profits from that $17/hr savings for “the shareholders”.
Hey, the 90s are calling and they want their paint job back!!
Hot wheels
That paint job is atrocious.
Its point is to hide the true shape of an unreleased vehicle model.
If they are going to make it that big anyway they should put in stacked seating and a bigger bed, and there can't be any justification for so much space under the hood in an ev so shrink the front to get more room for seating and bed. Or get fucked and stop making shitty giant vehicles for the shitty people that end up buying them. Literally everyone that shouldn't be on the road drives a big and/or expensive car. On my way home today someone in a gas truck that size made the most ridiculous illegal road maneuver I have seen to date, driving in a bike lane to pass on the right or all the car lanes, cutting off and nearly hitting a car turning right from the right most car lane, then doing a U-turn through the intersection from the bike lane to the outermost lane on the other side, nearly hitting 4 or 5 more cars.
We need to legislate these things out of existence. Mandatory sightlines, lower hoods, lowering the CDL threshold for certain size/weight, max headlight height, culling the light truck loophole, etc.
Giant spotless brodozer/mallcrawler trucks seem like they're always driven by predictably shitty douchebags.
Looks like a car from BttF 2
