I was thinking they could use the battery pack as a structural component, but then I remembered that’s exactly what they tried with the Cybertruck and that absolutely didn’t work!
Has nothing to do with trucks. Everything to do with affordable EVs even tiny EVs. This is why China has been making them for so long. Also why they get high safety scores.
My 25 AWD hybrid maverick has a 4k tow package, hard for me to imagine it couldn’t handle the battery weight but I’m no expert. I do know I have been nothing but impressed with the truck so far and my old truck was an f150.
The only issue is that it looks to be a unibody, so a heavy enough load in the bed could tweak the frame and have recurring issues of whee alignment.
Just a wee alignment, lad, no worries.
I was thinking they could use the battery pack as a structural component, but then I remembered that’s exactly what they tried with the Cybertruck and that absolutely didn’t work!
China was and still is doing structural batteries. Ford will in about 5 years.
I think it was more that the unibody part didn’t work so good when trying to do truck things - not the structural battery piece? Dunno, not an expert.
Has nothing to do with trucks. Everything to do with affordable EVs even tiny EVs. This is why China has been making them for so long. Also why they get high safety scores.
Look up “cell to chassis” CTC.
My 25 AWD hybrid maverick has a 4k tow package, hard for me to imagine it couldn’t handle the battery weight but I’m no expert. I do know I have been nothing but impressed with the truck so far and my old truck was an f150.