Shouldn't a Fathom have a six foot bed, by definition?
Not at that unfathomably low price
Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
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#12So they made the battery, arguably the most concerning thing to replace as the vehicle ages, ridiculous to replace? At least they're not reusing names for entirely new things. Mustang Mach-e is so weird. New vehicle, new name. Good
Aging isn't the real problem. Batteries are being found to last ages and ages more than they were ever thought to. By the time it needs to be changed, these will be considered as antiques. I think the real problem will be in crashes and insurance. The amount of cars that will be totaled for a fender bender will be nuts.
Upgrading would make that a nice to have. 8 years or so and battery tech should have an affordable higher capacity unit that could give new life to it.
I got a refurbed Nissan Leaf with a 40KWh battery (replaced the original 24KWh battery) which added enough range to eliminate range anxiety whilst tootling about the metro area.
Re: Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
#13So they made the battery, arguably the most concerning thing to replace as the vehicle ages, ridiculous to replace? At least they're not reusing names for entirely new things. Mustang Mach-e is so weird. New vehicle, new name. Good
Aging isn't the real problem. Batteries are being found to last ages and ages more than they were ever thought to. By the time it needs to be changed, these will be considered as antiques. I think the real problem will be in crashes and insurance. The amount of cars that will be totaled for a fender bender will be nuts.
Nah real problem, especially on smaller cells like 18650 back of the day is balance or temperature cable welds that randomly pop off, rendering entire pack useless and very laborious to repair. Rest of the things are very rare. If you crash hard enough to damage battery usually entire car is written off.
I've been looking for used Tesla in Eastern Europe. Battery repairs are so rare (I think I found 2). Post-crash rebuilds are basically 95% of cars sold here. 100% if car is from USA.
Re: Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
#14Imagine buying a new EV that can't drive itself. What a waste of money
Re: Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
#15> the architecture uses large aluminum unicastings to incorporate more than 100 parts that would otherwise be separate
They may have learned a few tricks from those teardowns of BYDs.
Re: Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
#16> Rather than a distinct floor component, the Fathom’s interior parts mount directly to the top of the structural battery.
I'm looking forward to the IIHS test results.
Re: Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom
#17> Rather than a distinct floor component, the Fathom’s interior parts mount directly to the top of the structural battery. I'm looking forward to the IIHS test results.
Safety asides it sounds like they build the car like a phone, so probably the repairs cost would be more expensive in the long run
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#18An electric ute? I'm interested. Seems like a good move!
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#19Ford once again getting the messaging wrong and shipping what is essentially a glorified sedan with a useless external 4 foot bed.
Why do we have to keep making family-haulers for whipped dads that aren't allowed to have a two-seater? Why do we HAVE to force the entire family to go with us wherever we go? The wife already gets the lifted Expedition XLT to nearly run over little Jimmy with at the crosswalk (or as I lovingly call it, the 'F Series' - Canyonero strikes again).
Give us back a two seat basic pickup like the Ranger used to be, cowards.
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#20I'd pick a $5k cheaper, analog Slate instead for not having to deal with Ford's post-sales ads, subscriptions, and DRM.