Diesel pickups are for chumps

[Martinjmpr]

Do you think people had this same conversation about automobiles when they first appeared on the scene?

"My horse can graze while I take a dump in the woods. I don't have to carry any fuel."

"Trains have lines all the way across the country. How am I going to get fuel once I get outside the city?"

They absolutely did, and you know what? They were right!

Automobiles were toys until the infrastructure to support them was created.

Nobody's saying that EVs will never be practical. What we ARE saying is that with the current infrastructure and the current limits of battery technology, EVs are nowhere NEAR being close to replacing ICE vehicles even within the city limits. Once beyond the range of their initial battery charges, EVs are impractical for long distance travel.

And speaking of automobiles, long-distance automobile travel beyond the city limits was impractical until there was a highway infrastructure to support such travel. In the midwest, for example, where the awful roads would routinely become mud lakes in springtime, if you lived in one town and wanted to "drive" in another town, you loaded your car up on a flat bed railroad car and had it shipped to the town you wanted to drive to.

Modern, publicly-funded rural automobile roads weren't really a "thing" until after WW1 (when it famously took Eisenhower 62 days to get a military convoy from Washington, DC to San Francisco.)

https://www.history.com/news/the-epi...highway-system