Results: It takes HOW LONG to charge this EV from home?! (Part 2 of 2)

Besides the exorbitant costs, you shouldn't expect to use your electric truck to do truck-like things quite as well as gas-powered trucks do. Automotive YouTuber Tyler "Hoovie" Hoover put Ford's F-150 Lightning — another electric truck to the test by towing an empty aluminum trailer 32 miles, and then evaluating how well it handled its maximum towing capacity by then ferrying a recently purchased 1930 Ford Model A pickup truck back to home base. Are you interested to see how an electric pickup truck handles towing compared to it's traditional gasoline-powered counterpart?

Hoovie called the experience a "complete and total disaster from beginning to end." He started with a 200-mile charge but lost 68 miles of range in the 32 miles he was towing just the aluminum trailer. Once the Model A was aboard, he lost "almost 90 miles of range in 30 miles." Does knowing this make you think electric vehicles - especially trucks - aren't what they are hyped up to be?

Say you live in the state of California, which plans to outlaw the sale of new gas vehicles by 2035. Let's also say your residence is suddenly threatened by a wildfire — I know, a very unusual thing in California, but we're just spit-balling hypotheticals here. If you only have 10 percent charge and you have to load everything you can into your vehicle, you don't have a day to get a full tank. Good luck getting far and good luck finding an open fast-charging station on the highway, particularly in times of natural disaster. Does this seem like a (pretty major) potential problem to anyone else?

Look, this isn't to say electric vehicles don't have their time and place. If you don't mind the charging times and high price, the Hummer is actually a pretty sweet ride; it can go from 0-60 mph in 3.3 seconds, something the original Hummer might not have been able to do in 3.3 hours. It's a high-tech, versatile vehicle that, from all appearances, is a blast. Do you think the cool, innovative things (like faster acceleration) of an electric vehicle are enough to counter the nagging important things like VERY slow charge times and inability to actually tow any weight any sort of distance without having to charge (potentially for days) again?

But let's be clear: The Hummer and its electric brethren aren't at the point where they can replace gas-powered trucks, the same way EVs across the spectrum aren't at the point where they can replace equivalent internal-combustion vehicles. Why are we on the precipice, then, of forcing new-car buyers to pay more for a vehicle that's less convenient and often can't do the work they need it to do? Besides, we don't have the infrastructure in place to sustain MILLIONS of electric vehicles. Do you agree?