Comments by "" (@Green__one) on "Doug DeMuro" channel.

Please someone get Doug in a Rivian. I really want to hear his honest opinions on it and I'm sad that such a huge number of other YouTubers who don't normally do cars got the chance before him.
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Problem was that the original roadster didn't have a 12v battery, only the high voltage pack. Cutting or disconnecting that is dangerous, the connections for the 12v system via a DC-DC converter are less intuitive, and harder to access, hence the switch. Modern Tesla vehicles have a 12v battery, along with a prominently positioned "fire fighter cut loop” that kills the 12v system, which in turn isolates the high voltage pack.
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Chrysler as a company will be in a lot of trouble soon, they're the only one of the big 3 that hasn't shown a plan for electrification, and it's not that long until nobody will want what they're selling unless they can. Now maybe they have something hidden up their sleeves, but so far it's pretty well hidden.
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SRS Emergency disable: on most vehicles, when you crash first responders disconnect the 12v battery to disable any airbags that haven't yet gone off so as to be able to work safely. In the original roadster, there was no 12v battery, there was only the high voltage battery with a constantly running DC-DC converter. as a result, this emergency disable switch was put in for first responders to be able to disable the airbags without disconnecting a several hundred volt cable. The noise from the battery "No modern electric vehicle does this", my 2014 model S does... gear selector: The original roadsters had the 2 speed transmission, the later ones did not as it was found that it provided no benefit, but was a big point of failure with the extremely high torques electric motors put out. Pro tip, any time you hear a company talking about making a multi-speed transmission in an EV, it's proof that they don't have the faintest clue how EVs work, and should be avoided at all costs.
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Doesn't look like it. Early on they talked about using a rivian to make a lincoln, but that fell through for some unknown reason. Everything I see on the Ford and Rivian stuff now shows no commonalities at all. I'm pretty sure Ford kept their investment in Rivian, they just don't seem to be doing anything much with it.
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Sad day here. I'll remember this video as when I lost respect for Doug. I liked that he told it like it was, didn't hide the flaws, and didn't just regurgitate PR talking points. It didn't get him the press cars, but it got him my respect. But here we see what happens when he gets the press car. No fact checking, no critical thinking, just pure regurgitation of the PR spin he's fed. There's lots to like in this truck, but I would have respected Doug a lot more if he also talked about "quirks" that were drawbacks, or didn't repeat obvious lies about this truck being further along in production than Rivian, or having better driver assist than Tesla. Please Doug, get your integrity back. It's worth more than the press cars are in the long run.
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Way too late. everyone calls it a frunk already.
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I've been eyeing this one for a while, all the way through development. I really want to like it, that said, I'm disappointed that the better middle row seats aren't coming to North America, apparently we're not allowed to swivel over here, only slide (I used to have a Mitsubishi delica, and those middle row sliding, swiveling seats were amazing!) But realistically, my next vehicle is going to have a minimum of 300 mile range, and all wheel drive, The EV9 makes you choose between those two, so unfortunately, it's not going to be my pick. I do like where Hyundai and Kia are going right now though, and I certainly don't hesitate to recommend them to people looking for an EV, just doesn't quite get there for my use case.
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@tharealdirector Because GM gave him a tour of the hummer and their talking points. I lost a lot of respect for Doug with this video. One of the reasons I watch him is that he doesn't get the press cars, and can therefore tell it like it is. his videos always include the good AND the bad. This one was pure PR spin, everything was "better than the competition" without fact checking a single one of those statements. "further along than Rivian" when he's sitting in a non-functional prototype when Rivian has thousands of real world miles and has competed in off-road rallies? "best driver assist" when Autopilot works on every road with lane markings and supercruise works on a tiny fraction of major highways? Talking about 4x5 sheets of building materials as if those were a real thing? There's lots to like in the Hummer EV, but I don't come to Doug's channel to see what the marketing people want to tell me. I come here to see what things really are from someone who tells it like it is. This video was a major disappointment.
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Vapourware.
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Sadly Tesla has since doubled down on the sentiment and is currently the single most anti-repair car company in the world. Sure they don't use that sticker anymore, but they refuse to sell parts, and won't let anyone else access the software that's needed for a large portion of repairs. If they find you did repair it without them somehow, they block all fast charging (including through chargers that are not part of their supercharger network)
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Stick to car reviews Doug, you're lousy with financial planning. Sure, in this particular case the stock market went up. But you had no way of knowing ahead of time which way it would go, nor by how much. Interest rates are to some extent tied to the market. If the bank thought they could make more money reliably in the stock market, they wouldn't be willing to loan you the money at that low an interest rate. This is exactly the same logic as borrowing to invest, there are people who advocate that too, but it greatly increases your risk, and can cause you to be in a world of trouble if things don't go well. Imagine that you invested the money, lost the money, and then had to make the car payments. Now you have more car than you can afford, and possibly more debt than the car is now worth. Your safety stats are also greatly exaggerated. Sure new cars are safer, but statistically it's not as much as you seem to make it out to be. Improvements in this area have been incremental, not revolutionary.
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Ford has done a lot right here, overall I really like it. A few little niggles: 1) range, it's "ok", but not exceptional. The big battery version should be the standard, and there should be a bigger one above that. 2) Bluecruise - take one look at the map of roads it works on. Supercruise is useless as a driver assistance feature due to the geofencing, bluecruise has somehow managed to be even more useless by having only half the roads that supercruise does. As long as they insist on geofencing it will never become a useful feature. Number 1 I could just about live with assuming I got the big battery one, number 2 is a real issue for me. I hate Tesla with an intense passion, but I've been driving on autopilot since 2015, it is really sad that nobody has managed to come even remotely close to that over 5 years later. The first EV that has a decent range and can match 2015 autopilot (I'd even accept the neutered 2021 version even though it's not as good as it was in 2015) will get my business. I'll never buy another Tesla, but I sure hope my Model S survives long enough that someone else releases a decent driver assist package. And Doug, quit with garbage about how Rivian won't make it to market this year. Nobody credible is saying that. They are the furthest along of any EV pickup with a fully built factory with pre-production vehicles already rolling off the line. Their prototypes have thousands upon thousands of real world public road miles on them. I can't say who will be the most successful truck, but who will be first to market is obvious by now. I don't know why you keep repeating that BS every chance you get, you seem to really not like them, but I have no idea why.
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If history is any indication, the dealers will refuse to stock it on their lots, and do everything in their power to redirect anyone who asks about it to an internal combustion version. Dealers have been a huge roadblock in electrification for pretty much all the legacy brands.
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Pretty much guaranteed to be fewer repairs than a traditional F150 due to far simpler drivetrain. And, being a Ford, the parts prices are likely to be somewhat reasonable (unlike say Tesla) so total maintenance cost should be drastically lower than a traditional F150.
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You could buy 2 of them for the price of the hummer, and each one would be a more practical vehicle.
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They definitely did that one right. I wish Rivian had made theirs open more like the F150 with the "grill" lifting up. Much more accessible that way. I also love that you can hose it out to clean it. it's basically an enclosed truck bed. And having all the power connectors in there too is just awesome. I have a few niggles with this truck, but overall it's a solid showing from Ford.
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There's a reason luxury brands use column shifters, it wastes far less interior space then putting it on the center console. There's really no excuse for a center console shift lever, especially in electric vehicles. The quickest way to turn me off any vehicle is to have that valuable center console space completely wasted with some shift lever or knob. In a manual transmission vehicle, I get it. But in an automatic? There's no point, at an electric vehicle where you don't even have gears to downshift into? I'd be happy with a button on the touch screen to put it into drive or reverse, you're only using it once per drive cycle anyway.
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Weight capacity makes very little difference, range is affected by the rolling resistance of the trailer wheels, and the aerodynamics of the trailer. There are a lot of variables, but the general rule of thumb with any EV is to divide the range in half when towing.
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@08vtec6 At a lower total cost of ownership than similar gasoline vehicles, it's a good deal for taxpayers.
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I think you underestimate just how massive the batteries in electric vehicles really are. power tools use essentially nothing power-wise in comparison to moving a vehicle at highway speeds. In my Model S, which is a MUCH more efficient EV than any truck, it takes nearly 20,000 watts of power to cruise at highway speeds and that's just steady state driving, not acceleration, if I push it we can get up close to 300,000 watts. A big pickup may double those numbers. Your hungriest power tools will likely use less than 1500 watts, but I doubt even that much, and that's only while actively in use, On a job site you spend a lot of time with the power tools idle while you do other tasks (moving/lifting/hammering/measuring/etc)
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Likely you saw the R1S SUV instead of the R1T truck.
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What's even better, is turning that second row around, and then both the second and third rows get more legroom, unfortunately, we apparently don't get that feature in North America, only other countries. My old Mitsubishi delicas both had that feature, and it was amazing. In one of them we had seven people plus gear for two weeks on a long road trip, and everyone was comfortable. And it wasn't really much bigger of a vehicle than the EV9. In fact it was probably narrower, and shorter length, just taller.
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Then don't look at what they've done with the name. Completely useless. They somehow managed to make it work on even fewer roads than the already severely limited GM Supercruise. I hate Tesla with a passion, but they did autopilot right over 5 years ago, and nobody has caught up to that in all the time since.
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@RC-fp1tl this is the opposite, I love the car, I can't stand the company. The reason is because of the way they treat their owners. The constant lies, the refusal to honor warranty, removing features through over the air software updates. Not to mention just the overall horrible experience of trying to actually purchase the car in the first place.
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@RC-fp1tl they very much intentionally lie, see ”full self-driving” they have admitted to regulators that the car cannot, and most importantly, never will be able to, drive by itself without a fully attentive driver behind the wheel. But it's not a one-off either. Review Elon's original presentation at the D event when they showed off autopilot and started taking money for the feature. The cars sold at that time still cannot to this day do even a single one of the things he promised in that presentation. As for my delivery, I bought from Tesla's pre-owned stock off their website, their store employees didn't know the car I found even existed, and in fact told me such a configuration could not exist. When they finally assumed it did, I was not allowed to see the car, or even pictures of it before purchase having to buy a used car without so much as a description of it's condition. It then took over 3 months for delivery, of a used car sitting on their lot, all of which time there was no communication at all and nobody could tell me where the car was, out when it would be delivered. They also flat out lied to me many times about where it was as I found out later. When it finally did arrive I was given 3 hours notice to pull together the full purchase price and drop everything in the middle of the work day for delivery. The worst part is that the whole ownership experience has been that way or worse ever since. Best car ever made. By the slimiest, sleaziest, company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I love my Model S, but I will never buy another Tesla as long as I live.
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@RC-fp1tl Full Self driving is not coming later this year. It is coming NEVER. Per Tesla themselves it will ALWAYS be a Level 2 feature requiring an attentive driver behind the wheel ready to take over at all times. That is NOBODY's definition of "full self driving". They have stated this to regulators. They are flat out lying about it in their marketing. There's a reason that companies working on true self driving have stopped using the term "self driving", and it's because Tesla has ruined it by claiming that something that can't drive itself is "full self driving".
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@RC-fp1tl you asked me why I hated a car company, the better question may be why do you worship one? Corporations are never your friend, let alone your God.
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Depends on a lot of factors, but a general rule of thumb for all EVs is take the range and divide by 2.
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What a huge waste of space in the front of the car. That's a huge hood to not have anything under it. Overall, much better showing from Mercedes than I expected though. A lot of copying Tesla, but in the things that Tesla does well, not the things that Tesla has screwed up. As for the looks, Not perfect, but I don't hate it. I do think in the price point it should be AWD (not only in the higher spec version) and I do think they missed an opportunity for a higher range and/or faster accelerating version (AMG version?) don't have to beat Tesla in those, but a bit closer wouldn't be bad, Still the numbers it has are not bad in any way.
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I don't think he missed it, it simply doesn't exist yet. They're so far behind the ones he listed as to not even be worth a mention.
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The range is ok, not excellent, but certainly ok. It's enough to show they're serious about EVs. I would have preferred that large pack to be the base, and a larger one above that, but the numbers they chose certainly don't surprise me, nor do I think they'll be a huge impediment to sales.
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None of its competitors have spare tires either, spare tires are antiquities these days, research showed that over 90% of cars go to the scrap yard with their spare tire never once having been touched. In over 20 years of driving, including driving all day everyday for work, I have never once changed a tire on the side of the road. There are so many other things that could go wrong with a car that we don't carry spares for, why carry a spare of one of the biggest heaviest things around. I do however carry a patch kit, weighs almost nothing takes almost no space, and I have used that on the side of the road three times in my driving career. (Though to be fair, two of those three I could have just driven to a tire shop.)
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@JWill6969 A lot of things are nice to have. I'd rather have the extra range and extra cargo space rather than lugging a big tire and rim everywhere I go. If you want a spare, I'm sure they'll sell you a rim and a tire. Throw it in the trunk with a jack and a tire iron and you've achieved the exact same thing as having a spare. I personally see no point though.
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Too bad it's also the most useless. Just look at the map of where it works, basically nowhere. I thought Supercruise was bad, but bluecruise only has half the roads that supercruise does!
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The biggest problem in designing traditional front crumple zones in vehicles is how to stop the engine from hurting the occupants in a crash. The usual solution is to design it to get pushed downward out of the way. Not having an engine to worry about makes front end collision design much easier. Between the lack of an engine, and the lower centre of gravity inherent to all EVs, this will almost certainly have a better crash rating than an internal combustion engine F150
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They are competitors, and yes Ford has invested in Rivian, the 2 aren't mutually exclusive. There does not appear to be any tech sharing, the platforms are completely different, the images of the skateboard show completely different motors, the battery architecture is different, no evidence of any commonality. As for Ford releasing first... Since when is 2022 before June 2021???
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Not covered in this video, but Ford says it has full skid plates, dual motor full time 4wd, a rear diff locker, and as a first in an F series; independent rear suspension. Should be decent off road, at least as good, if not better than, any previous F series.
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I just can't get excited about a GM offering, they're never attractive, and I certainly don't trust their build quality. They have a couple of nice features, but overall, I'm just not interested. The one thing I do hope it will do though is actually get the claimed 400 mile range, because if they do it, that should hopefully put some pressure on Ford to fix their anemic range numbers on the F150 lightning. Ford really missed the boat on that, the 300 mile version should have been the shorter range version, not the longer range one!
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@cmontes7961 What about it? There's a lot of EVs on the road now, and so far we're seeing very little degradation in most of them, and battery prices are constantly dropping. Won't be an issue for the first several hundred thousand miles anyway, and by then a new pack would probably be about 10k, far less than you would have spent on maintenance on a similar internal combustion vehicle in the same timeframe.
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I don't think you really would, they wouldn't fit anywhere. Look at a Rivian maybe, it's somewhere between a mid-size and this, likely the biggest you'd ever want in Europe.
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I think this is a decent showing from GM, but to say it's further along than the Rivian R1T is laughable. Rivian has thousands of miles of real on and off road driving under their belt on many separate fully functional prototypes. Sure, Rivian has some challenges left to overcome, and GM is a big enough company that I have no doubt they'll make it to market, but let's be honest, the R1T is way further in the development process than the Hummer EV is right now. If you'd said that GM is big enough to pull this off, and Rivian has no history, and many challenges yet to come, I'd agree with you. I just can't agree that Hummer EV is further developed when the prototype you're sitting in doesn't even have working dash switches, and every video in the reveal was pure CGI. Meanwhile the R1T just competed in a real off-road rally!
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@Voltaic Example: $50,000 Model S, $30,000 Model 3 the 300 mile 2012 model S, for that matter Tesla is the only EV manufacturer who's EVs consistently can't meet their EPA rated range, seems they tested them "differently" than everyone else. The original Autopilot cars still not being able to do even a single one of the things claimed at the original reveal event, the Model 3 being several years late, the new roadster being well delayed, the Model S plaid being super delayed, "full self driving" that can't drive itself, and don't even get me started on how they won't honour their warranties, remove features and functionality through mandatory software updates, 85kWh pack only being 81kWh and a whole host of other issues. Tesla marketing is 100% lies. I drive a Model S, it's the best car ever built, by the slimiest, sleaziest company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I love my car, but I will never again make the mistake of buying anything from Tesla.
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It does not have an air suspension, and the ground clearance is 8.9 inches. That's half an inch less than the normal F150, likely due to the added skid plates.
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You could, and then you could likely get 800k more after that. The parts are way more reliable than an internal combustion engine.
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