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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
I feel the need to defend Dodge on this one. We all saw the Banshee launch and the fake sound was a HUGE mistake. Wish they had never done that, because the technology the car will really have is actually kinda cool.
There will be sound with the Banshee, but it’s not faked. Why they chose to try to “simulate” it for the reveal is beyond me. To improve the handling of Banshee, Dodge has engineered baffles under the car to direct the air and keep the car planted. Very similar to what Chevrolet does with C8. They also channel the sound of that air flowing through the baffles to generate an engine-like sound. That sound changes in pitch and tone as the vehicle increases speed, so it naturally sounds like an engine revving. At highway speeds it’s as loud as a Hemi.
Because the car they showed at the reveal could only crawl at about 5 mph, they piped in the sound. I still can’t figure out who would have ok’d that plan. The result was very predictable and now they have to dig out of a hole to get anybody to take the real sound seriously.
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To me the fake sound coupled with a fake transmission point to a major disconnect between the manufacturer and the target audience. Not surprising given a large portion of the target audience don’t want an EV anyway.
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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
EV’s available today wouldn’t work for you. Maybe a Rivian, maybe not. But looking at what’s coming in the next five years there will be double digits of options that could handle what you just described without blinking.
As far as EV trucks go, in half ton trim, the vast majority of trucks sold each year never tow a thing. At least for the original owners. They are used like bigger taller fully loaded cars. For those that do need to tow, 3/4 ton trucks will be among the last vehicles to convert to EV. You and I might be expired or too vegged out to drive when that occurs. But at the same time, commercial EV vans are a big freakin’ deal right now. As I type this I just finished a bunch of meetings with a vehicle brand that you would recognize if I named them. What were we discussing? Very large EVs that they will be bringing to market in a few years. Very large.
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I don’t see an EV truck capable of hauling a medium sized RV on road-trips ranging from a 3-400 mile one way trip that my wife and I want to make in a day to 1,000 one way mile trips we want to do in three or fewer days. We compete in matches every Saturday and in retirement I plan to extend our range from just the southeast all the way up to the Great Lakes and at least as far west as Phoenix.
Solar panels on the RV and an RV specific PowerWall would be nice though.
Then when I’m home I’ll roll out the Camaro or a GT500.