Car Brain people are always upset about losing the capability of something they'll need like a few times in their life. yeah, maybe actually your eco-vehicle wont work for that thing, god forbid you have to rent a different vehicle for a day instead of buying it permanently for thousands more.
i always remember the Louis Rossman " Electric cars aren't practical " video, where he immediately discounts 99.9% of daily driving because he lives in New York and public transport and an e-bike is easier to use there than a car. ok, plenty of cities aren't like that, but he continues
since you can't use a car in a city, the next thing you use it on is Roadtrips. That's right, gas or electric, the reason to buy a vehicle costing tens of thousands of dollars is that thing you probably wont do more than 10 times in your entire life for a few days.
So why doesn't an electric car work for road trips? Well there is a long stretch of highway in Montana that doesn't have fast chargers. so there's one remote place of america you can't easily road trip. Since the point of road trips is go to remote places, this makes an electric car utterly impractical for poor struggling families.
It would do a lot of good if car rentals weren't such scams in the US. You have to be at least 25, they tell you they have a car available when they don't, they send you out with a half tank and charge you for returning it with the same, and they will do their level best to find some bullshit little scratch to charge you for. Even if you only need to haul something or go on a road trip 10 times a year it's a huge pain in the ass.
I think a lot of people would happily give up owning a car if it was easy enough to rent one the few times you do need it.
I've found that ones outside of airports are like that, but U-Hauls generally are run better. Idk, I've never had any problems with them and I've used them dozens of times to help move friends and myself.
Uhaul has twice pulled the "Sure we have a van available for you" shit but then it wasn't there when I arrived, and either had to wait 3 hours for it to be returned (because "We have a van for you" means "we're expecting one back by the time you arrive" in uhaul speak) and on the other occasion was told to go pound sand.
Fool me twice shame on me I suppose.
Damn, that sucks. I usually go in person to check stuff out beforehand though or schedule stuff out weeks in advance. Probably just perks of living in a low density area.
Home Depot rents trucks for like $120 a day if you're over 21, and they don't care too much about them if everything's still attached.
Not Just Bikes had a good video on this. It's such a more efficient way to do things, both from the individual perspective (saved money and hassle of car ownership) and the societal one (fewer vehicles with higher usage).
He's an excellent example of a person who is good at one thing (fixing computers) so he thinks his opinion on everything else is also gold.
He really is the Scotty Kilmer of electronics.
Just watch Adrian's digital basement, it's better anyway.
Louis Rossman is what happens when a terminal lib has dealt with enough apple vendor lockin bullshit to displace the techbro worship enough to create a void to be filled in with bodega brain.
He's a libertarian not a liberal. And he moved out of NYC a while back.
So why doesn’t an electric car work for road trips?
I've got a hybrid Volt that gets the first 50 miles on rechargable electric and the next 400 on a seven gallon gas tank because its a crazy efficient vehicle.
I will drive all the fuck over Montana on my electric car.
And it really really sucks to be the ONE guy with a truck in a group of car drivers
The words I hate to read in a (not so) random text from someone I haven't talked to in weeks/months:
"What are you doing this weekend?"
It was pretty cool in college being able to shove nine of your best friends in the back of your truck and go to denny's or whatever at 3am.
I have the solution. Next car I buy is going to be a japanese minitruck. Great gas mileage as much bed space as a F150 and it is a little beep beep to help the comrades. I actually learned about the kei truck from a post here actually. I just hope I don't have to get a new one for a while because I am so very tired of cars
My father in law got one, they're fun and good. I definitely wanna get one as my next car.
As a teenager I always wanted a Ford ranger (I was a country gal) but those have become these massive monstrosities now lol, it's crazy. I don't think western car companies even make something like a 90s or early 00s ranger.
My gf and I also lament the tiny trucks of the past. They really are puffed up monstrosities now. It’s incomprehensible
Yeah I don't think you can actually get a light pickup in the US anymore unless you import it.
Well there's tons of used pickups floating around and they're still commonplace for people who actually do shit with em
Trucks like that were accidentally made illegal, in a roundabout way. And nobody cares enough to fix the laws that accidentally banned them.
damn those are affordable. seems like it would be useful for my needs, maybe helping local comrades and as an emergency vehicle to get to work. i know somebody with a very old nissian frontier, back when they were as small as the hilux that will never give it up despite having 250k miles. hybrid maverick seems to be the only option but the waiting lists are insane and dealers keep ripping people off.
I haven't done it so I cannot say for sure. I know it isn't great for hauling lodes. But otherwise it shoulk work. Big expandable bed. Cheap plentiful parts. Reliable and relitively easy maitnence. I want to belive this is the good thing.
i see some negatives: front collision will probably be very, very bad. and like you said doesn't look like it has much weight capacity, although just for household pickups from the hardware store (like some plywood, plants, etc) might be ok. right side steering wheel oooo boy
The joke in Japan is that all Kei Trucks are required by law to come with a Shiba Inu.
28k views smh I've done two bookshelves and a set of drawers
Dudes in the comments of every New York subway video being like "only in NYC"
yeah but only cuz nowhere else in the country has public transit
is it a hot hatch if it's an 06 impreza 2.5i wagon that burns oil? I ain't got that gti/veloster money.
Not having a 10ton pedestrian crushing gas guzzler is bourgeois decedence.
There's like 8 different ways to rent a truck for <$100 for a day, but you have to go outside and talk to people
I am now seeking VC funding for my revolutionary disruptive app idea. It's basically Uber for trucks.
I lowkey want a small truck but don't want a hulking monstrosity like pretty much every modern truck is. I just want a little guy that can carry some stuff when I need to, which admittedly isn't too often, but it would be nice to be able to do since I'm forced to have a car in this shit hole. Also I love :technical:
letting my homies strap their furniture to the top of my t-34
I drive an ‘02 Ford Explorer. No one’s ever asked to use it to move a couch but I know for a fact that it can haul an old industrial radiator to the scrap yard, which is probably easier than a couch
Like half of the cheap old beaters I’ve driven have been trucks. Car markets are weird
