• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “Before incentives, Ford’s electric van is more than $20,000 cheaper than GM’s”

    Yikes.

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      Maybe. These have a range of 272 miles, which is good compared to most of the other delivery vans, but would significantly limit the places you can camp, especially out west.

      It would be tough for a gas vehicle with that range to go to certain places, and that doesn’t account for more limited charging locations, or the extra weight of a camper conversion.

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        Yeah, that’s a little light, but that’s still 3+ hours of driving between charges. There are a surprising amount of EV chargers scattered around Colorado. Going to a campground with RV hookups would really help. And solar panels on the roof wouldn’t give a ton of range back, but 5-10 miles per day isn’t nothing.

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    Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I’d often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I’d put The Weather Channel on.

    Quite often they’d report on “snow coming down from Canada”, or “frigid air coming down from Canada”, and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.

    Dunno why I thought of that.

    Anyway, electric vans. Cool.