I’m sold on the Ramcharger. For a truck I think it’s a perfect option and absolutely viable. But that usage is not the same as a muscle car. That’s my hang up.
I also have a hard time with things being crammed down my throat as I have to accept. Wish they would have offered V8, I6, and electric and seen what the market said. The pro-electric bunch loses a lot because they are largely single track, my way kind of thinking.
Yes, evidence seems to suggest there is a measurable footprint that is resistive to having some autonomy pulled away from them on what kind of power plant to use in their vehicle. I imagine that measurable footprint is highly represented in this forum. What I don't know, beacuse I don't frequent such forums, is is there an equally measurable sized footprint that is eager to have the BEV experience. Moreover, there is the ignorant of us who have no idea what the experience is and can't say one way or another.
Personally, I know my biases are toward being an early adopter, and embracing constant learning and exploration. That tends to make be more eager to try something new and not hold on the cheese with my cold dead hands. I sometimes get hurt and adopt a failure, however for me I found that early adoption makes me embrace change with a higher amount of of influence and engagement over trying to scour ebay for the used 8track parts.
The Z factors are F.U.D. , fake news, peer pressure, and government regulation. I have autonomy to directly control three of the four and have influence on the one.
All this said (trying to keep it political free) Dodge (although their release as tougue-n-cheek political ) did something forward looking and tied into their past. Business school students will have a case study on this - and it will either be seen as a Steve Jobs iMac story, or a Bill Knaps this is WOW story. It is not a story about Dodge just withering away over time due to doing the same thing they have done in the past and expecting something to get better.
