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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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1336 points kwindla | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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aidenn0 ◴[25 Apr 25 16:56 UTC] No.43795946[source]▶
For anyone curious, if you made a similarly sized gas-powered pickup with an i4 engine, it would be penalized more than a full-sized pickup for being too fuel inefficient, despite likely getting much better mileage than an F-150 because, since 2011, bigger cars are held to a lesser standard by CAFE[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...

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1. api ◴[25 Apr 25 21:12 UTC] No.43798561[source]▶
> since 2011, bigger cars are held to a lesser standard by CAFE[1].

... and this is why American cars got so huge, if anyone was curious.