RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Kevin….All good, solid points InAtTheTop. OK we've distilled this down to reliability. What's the worse case? You're in the bush in Kakwa country near Grande Prairie, Alberta with lots of steep hills. It's minus 35 C. Which would you rather have? A Dodge Ram with a 6.7 litre Cummins diesel or an EV truck.
Both have the torque to chug up the hills. In fact the EV has constant high torque at all RPMs. Max torque all of the time so I'm told. I did do a quick check on it. The torque, RPM graph shows pretty much the same torque at every RPM for an electrical induction motor.
You'd need to load about 800 pounds of sand bags to the box of the Ram in order to get enough weight over the back wheels so that you wouldn't spin out. You wouldn't have to add any weight to the EV because the battery is plenty heavy enough.
So far the EV is winning. Now we have this battery reliability question. Will it deliver in minus 35 C? Yes or no? Anybody know? I sure don't.