Because the Cybertruck has no downside for me. 99% of my driving is much less than the battery capacity and having owned various Tesla’s since 2014, I don’t have any problem using Superchargers on trips.
Carrying around a gas tank and the engine that needs maintenance is wasted space and potentially expensive unneccessary repairs.
Your argument is as senseless as trying to convince every EV sedan buyer to buy a PHEV.
We know what’s practical for our individual needs. If it doesn’t suit yours then fine….buy whatever you want but the condescending bullshit is just ridiculous from the Cybertruck haters.
The reason that used full size pickup trucks have insanely high resale value even well past 100K & even 200K miles, is that there is a high demand to purchase them in the trades. These are mostly working men, often immigrants, that are not going to have a housing situation that allows for nightly home charging. Many pull trailers, have racks of ladders, and full crews that reduce economy notably. We already know that commercial fast charging is expensive and inconvenient, so that's out.
Lifetime operating costs, in large part dictated by resale value, is going to destroy any semblance of 'value' with EV trucks. Any miniscule fuel savings is first eaten entirely up by the extra $35K you spent buying it with the double whammy of the poor resale of EVs.
This argument: "Carrying around a gas tank and the engine that needs maintenance is wasted space and potentially expensive unnecessary repairs." is positively silly.
You could easily have a 100K mile PHEV vehicle that has less than 20K miles of use on the ICE, and all of that would likely be highway miles. Modern ICE vehicles are already insanely efficiency and reliable, statistically more so than EVs. So, what is all of this gas use and maintenance you talk about? How much maintenance do you think a Corolla, or even an F150 needs in 20K miles? Or even 200K miles? It's next to nothing.
Why don't you mind carrying around a huge, environmentally catastrophic to mine and produce battery pack around when you only use 30% of it at most on an average day?
A right sized Iron based battery pack utilized in a standard hybrid or PHEV makes the most sense for truck & SUV sized vehicles. Two engine options, the PHEV for homeowners and a standard hybrid for non-homeowners.
You have a safer and cheaper to mine battery pack that can be utilized 0-100% everyday with no degradation. This is fine because you have an ICE generator on board so no concerns about running out. No need to drive around with 4x more battery pack than you need every single day.
The battery is smaller, so people won't generally need a Level 2 home charger. After all, even if they don't get it fully charged at times, so what, you have the ICE. It would be a lighter vehicle which is safer for all road users, improves performance and notably reduces wear and tear on our roads and bridges. The vehicle would not be range limited. Everyone in time would have a backup generator at home in the form of their car. People die every single year from losing electricity service and the incidents of this could clearly be reduced. New housing codes should include Car to Home powering plugs.
I think that EV diehards think they are 'saving the planet' but you are not. It's just more consumerism, no different than the guy picking up groceries in his lifted dually on mudder tires. EV's take too many resources to produce, are too fast, are too heavy and don't have the longevity and rebuildable nature of ICE vehicles.