Comment on Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs

• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  8587 isn’t quite 9000 lbs. Close, but no cigar. And the 450 is a ridiculous truck (which I just love tbh), but even in Texas, almost no one drives them. Biggest you usually see are 350s, or at least in my experience. And the 150 is just every where.

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  • Tathas@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A 5% difference is close enough for me. You make it sound like the EV part is where all the weight is coming from when the ICE versions are already there. And please, “The hummer EV is too much but the regular hummer is fine”? The hummer is just already excess no matter what version you’re talking about.

    I see people commuting in F250s to their tech jobs cause they tow stuff once in a while, and they don’t feel safe driving the same size vehicles as 95% of the rest of traffic around them. Then they whine about parking spaces.

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  • You999@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    F450s are everywhere you just don’t know they are F450s. Things like dump trucks, tow trucks, ambulances, box trucks, etc are built on top of the F450.

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    • jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And a Freightliner Cascadia is significantly heavier than the EV Hummer if we’re comparing consumer SUVs to utility vehicles

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    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now I’m wondering if Ford just sells bare bones F-450s, or if there’s just piles of F-450 chassis out there.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now I’m wondering if Ford just sells bare bones F-450s,

        Yes.

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean used casually, but you’re right.

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