Thread: Full Electric LDV ute

Its the future. Get used to it you negative old farts.

If you live long enough I bet none of you will be driving your shit diesels (especially Nissan Patrols) in 15 years time.

The rate of development is extraordinary.

Originally Posted by Hunter595

I know this Ute isn’t what most of us expect from a ute, my personal vehicle is a 2002 hilux 4Wd drive double cab, this is a townies ute, the ground clearance is not great, it’s 2 wd and I am not keen to take it on rough tracks, because the electric motor does seem to be quite low where the diff would be. I will keep updating as I get more miles on it.
This is a company ute, not mine, but I am trying to keep an open mind and give a fair review on what I think about the vehicle.

Hi
I know that the responses on here are 8 to 1 negativity and frankly they can all go boil their fat heads

What does it feel like to drive? Given that you have experience of a regular double cab do you find it comes into corners / braking different?

I think most people on this forum either have a company ute or personal ute (got both) but I'm curious to learn about what might be our future, would love to hear from anyone on the forum driving the new hydrogen trucks too

Originally Posted by Tahr

Its the future. Get used to it you negative old farts.

If you live long enough I bet none of you will be driving your shit diesels (especially Nissan Patrols) in 15 years time.

The rate of development is extraordinary.

Nissan Patrols and Safari's will always be here. Fuckers just wont die.

You are a small country, imagine having to drive it across Australia

Originally Posted by Steve123

Nissan Patrols and Safari's will always be here. Fuckers just wont die.

Sad, eh

Originally Posted by Tahr

Sad, eh

It surely is. Always seem to find then wheezing along maxed out at 80k in places where passings impossible

Originally Posted by Tahr

Its the future.

As captain of the debating team for the negative, I disagree strongly. It is a trend, maybe it could even be called a fad. The world (let alone this country) does not have the electricity generation capacity to meet the demand of this folly and by the OP’s statement that a 64% charge took 35 minutes, the world cannot sustain the impact caused by the loss of productivity that these short range vehicles will create. The future lays with Hydrogen technology and if the climate change brigade are correct about rising sea levels then there will be plenty of water from which to take the hydrogen. Run the gas guzzlers, warm the planet, melt the ice cap and fuel the Hydrogen vehicles. Now that is an exercise in sustainability.

Originally Posted by Mohawk .308

Says the old fart that drives a shit diesel ranger….

Its only a temporary fill-in until my fully electric super Ford 4x4 arrives in 2050.
There will be no power shortages because the nuclear power station (on the edge of Auckland will be a good place for it) will be finished by then.

My old patrol only done 3000ks in the last 4 months,hunting ks mostly.Diesel down to nearly $2 a litre.Il just wait till my 400kw hydro nissen patrol arrives.

Originally Posted by Rushy

As captain of the debating team for the negative, I disagree strongly. It is a trend, maybe it could even be called a fad. The world (let alone this country) does not have the electricity generation capacity to meet the demand of this folly and by the OP’s statement that a 64% charge took 35 minutes, the world cannot sustain the impact caused by the loss of productivity that these short range vehicles will create. The future lays with Hydrogen technology and if the climate change brigade are correct about rising sea levels then there will be plenty of water from which to take the hydrogen. Run the gas guzzlers, warm the planet, melt the ice cap and fuel the Hydrogen vehicles. Now that is an exercise in sustainability.

Nonsense the futures coal

Originally Posted by Martin358

california has told people not to charge their electric cars as they dont have enough generation capacity yet

I believe and I could be wrong that actually they have asked people just not to charge them at peak times rather than not charge them at all. Big difference.

How does the free charging work?
Is it payed for by the council and hence ratepayers or central government or who?
Batteries from these things will be the next environmental nightmare....they are essentially disposable vehicles with the cost of replacement.

Don't get me wrong, they are cool TEC and I would have one if I had the money to throw away on one but I don't see them solving any problem other than smog in city's....and they just move the pollution somewhere else but it will improve the air quality in big city's.
Not really required here I think.

In response to who asks what the LDV drives like, compared to the old hilux, well the LDV drives well, has plenty of power, has 3 driving modes, power, normal and economy, has a goood sound system, is heavy, I believe around 2.3 tonnes but I will actually weigh it at work tomorrow. Mostly I will charge at work as I work for a recycling and waste company, we generate power from the waste so it has a little feel good factor.
Today I am going to hook my boat on the back and go for a trial run and see how that goes, my boat weighs 970 kms, so it will be an interesting test.

Originally Posted by Hunter595

In response to who asks what the LDV drives like, compared to the old hilux, well the LDV drives well, has plenty of power, has 3 driving modes, power, normal and economy, has a goood sound system, is heavy, I believe around 2.3 tonnes but I will actually weigh it at work tomorrow. Mostly I will charge at work as I work for a recycling and waste company, we generate power from the waste so it has a little feel good factor.
Today I am going to hook my boat on the back and go for a trial run and see how that goes, my boat weighs 970 kms, so it will be an interesting test.

If the motor hangs down around diff height how will launching the boat work out? Surely its in a waterproof housing?

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Nonsense the futures coal

I can just hear my missus bitching now about the coal making her clothes dirty as she stokes the boiler on my Coal Activated Personal Recreational Innovation (CAPRI).