Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom

Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom(motortrend.com)

20 points by thehoff 5 hours ago | 10 comments

addaon 1 hour ago |

Shouldn't a Fathom have a six foot bed, by definition?

aareet 25 minutes ago | |

Not at that unfathomably low price

Neywiny 3 hours ago |

So they made the battery, arguably the most concerning thing to replace as the vehicle ages, ridiculous to replace?

At least they're not reusing names for entirely new things. Mustang Mach-e is so weird. New vehicle, new name. Good

erxam 2 hours ago | |

Aging isn't the real problem. Batteries are being found to last ages and ages more than they were ever thought to. By the time it needs to be changed, these will be considered as antiques.

I think the real problem will be in crashes and insurance. The amount of cars that will be totaled for a fender bender will be nuts.

pstuart 11 minutes ago | | |

Upgrading would make that a nice to have. 8 years or so and battery tech should have an affordable higher capacity unit that could give new life to it.

I got a refurbed Nissan Leaf with a 40KWh battery (replaced the original 24KWh battery) which added enough range to eliminate range anxiety whilst tootling about the metro area.

kristianp 2 hours ago |

If it's about the size of a Maverick as the article suggests, that's not small at all.

GenerWork 2 hours ago | |

The Maverick is pretty small compared to other trucks. Smaller than a Ranger, and much, much smaller than the quarter and half ton trucks.

erxam 2 hours ago | | |

Smaller doesn't necessarily mean small. Rangers are just normal big, and upper tier trucks are absolutely monstrous.

You know what I thought the Maverick was sized like before looking it up? A Volkswagen Saveiro.

dyauspitr 58 minutes ago |

For what it’s worth, I absolutely love my f-150 lightning. I just wish we had 1 MW charging like the Chinese do.

k12sosse 3 hours ago |

Shoulda gone with Canyonero as the name.

Love my ranger. ~700km on a tank of gasoline. Easy to work on at home. The factory installed upfitter switches make adding 12v additions easy.

atonse 3 hours ago | |

Hahaha when I saw ranchero I had the same thought and started singing the canyonero song in my head.

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