How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
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Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#2Who says you need Ford to do it? Aging Wheels tried a prototype of a small electric pickup a year ago from a team making one without the support of a huge car company. I have no dog in this fight, other than wanting more of transport to go electric but if Americans refuse to buy vans which probably make more sense for transporting goods this might be a good option.
Video: https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#3Who says you need Ford to do it? Aging Wheels tried a prototype of a small electric pickup a year ago from a team making one without the support of a huge car company. I have no dog in this fight, other than wanting more of transport to go electric but if Americans refuse to buy vans which probably make more sense for transporting goods this might be a good option. Video: https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs
You don't need Ford per se, but you do need an experienced manufacturer to take a concept car to mass production, and you need mass production to make something affordable.
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#4Who says you need Ford to do it? Aging Wheels tried a prototype of a small electric pickup a year ago from a team making one without the support of a huge car company. I have no dog in this fight, other than wanting more of transport to go electric but if Americans refuse to buy vans which probably make more sense for transporting goods this might be a good option. Video: https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs
You don't need Ford per se, but you do need an experienced manufacturer to take a concept car to mass production, and you need mass production to make something affordable.
I'm watching Slate [0] with interest; they aren't following a path according to your assumptions.
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#5Slate seems closer to shipping a ~$30k electric pickup: https://www.slate.auto
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#6Kelly's 14 points are still a great read and should resonate with a lot of people here.
That said, when they tried this in the past they did it by changing the sticker price to $65k+. So, color me skeptical.
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#7The list of 14 rules for running a skunkworks program and how they apply here is great and well worth reading the article, regardless of how you feel about the likelihood of Ford ever successfully executing on a $30k ev truck
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need Ford per se, but you do need an experienced manufacturer to take a concept car to mass production, and you need mass production to make something affordable.
I'm watching Slate [0] with interest; they aren't following a path according to your assumptions. [0] https://www.slate.auto/en
They have financial capital via Bezos, I thought?
Not denigrating them whatsoever, I would like to have one.
Re: How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
#9The list of 14 rules for running a skunkworks program and how they apply here is great and well worth reading the article, regardless of how you feel about the likelihood of Ford ever successfully executing on a $30k ev truck
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