I had a 4 door with a manual 5 speed with AC and a full gauge package including a vacuum gauge. The rear seats folded flat and you could sleep 2 in a pinch. Great surf/ski vehicle.
They don't make the Power Wagon with a Cummins. There are other models of Ram 2500 you can get with the 6.7 Cummins, but not the Power Wagon.
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). Living on an island with lousy roads and bumpy tracks it really is the right vehicle. ) Then most are totaled in a small accident due to cost of having one large blob of sheet metal and plastic instead of being repaired. That also must be addressed with COMPLETE re-designs before you go off-road with one, and to lesson the incredible environmental destruction. For a comparison, several of my neighbors attempt to drive Subarus home and we live off-road on basic dirt roads, more practical then an ev for sure. Yet they have a THREE year life expectancy!( some last 5-6 years with complete re-builds of drivetrain and suspension) Sure they get 19-21 MPG, but at around 30K in the time you go through 3 of them in 9 -10 years, and the Grenadier keeps on ticking. My Ram has only seen shocks replaced. Sure you can replace rims, suspension, CVT, leaking engine, endless suspension parts and so on. Then my neighbor crashed his 3 year old one 2 days ago in the snow, while 2 others sat in the ditch. His totaled, another one off to the shop and the other likely ok. I drove the same road at 3x the speed, but with large tires and higher friction I never even slid at all. Had I ran into the same boulder as my neighbor at 10-15mph? The Grenadier or Power Wagon might have had a small bumper scratch or dent, but I would just drive on, maybe have to lock a diff to get out of a ditch. There is something to building vehicles that last for the environment. BTW charging an EV is not currently practical for someone like me that lives off grid. It would take 350,000.00 or more to accomplish.
Preach. With current technology, BEVs are great for city driving, suburban use, and commuting in and around suburban and urban areas, but they make no sense for off-road use or overlanding for all the reasons you lay out. Also, we see the exact same life-expectancy gap between light all-wheel drive vehicles (like Subarus) when compared to Landcruisers and heavy duty trucks - when the vehicles are used to daily drive long rough dirt roads. The lighter-duty vehicles blow through CV boots, struts, and just seem to shake apart. To be clear, I'm talking about long daily trips on rough corrugated roads.When you think about electric trucks, they cannot go off road,( breakage, range, tires, weight) cannot tow or do anything.( due to range) So the question becomes what are they good for? Fast for sure! When you realize 220 miles x 60% is all you can use on the road, that is 132 miles of range! ( not supposed to charge over 80% or go below 20%) And towing cuts range by over half...then the batteries are huge and take forever to charge. While the entire EV industry is sinking new tech will save plastic commuter cars eventually,( such as solid state batteries) but will trucks EVER be practical? Not for off-road due to weight for sure. And is the environmental destruction worth it? These things create so much pollution to make, that theoretical pay offs are in the decade long range when, well of course they need a new 20K battery for a car ( what does a truck one cost?
The iPace has an 8 year battery warranty - someone is not being entirely honest. https://www.jaguar.co.uk/content/dam/jdx/pdfs/uk/X590_21MY_EBro_GE_V8a_DX.pdf
Could be the battery was damaged in a manner outside the warranty conditions.
