. After removing Co-Pilot 360 and adding back the "full size" spare, including the whopping $100 for the receiver hitch and 4 pin connector and destination charge, we are looking at $21885 plus tax for a trucklett that gets 40 MPG. Not everything that sounds to good to be true actually is.
It's been a few months, but when I asked at 4WheelCampers I was told that they had no plans to build a Project M for Maverick. Of course, if enough folks ask.....
As a Hybrid Escape driver for the last 8 or 9 years, I second that emotion. Give up even the idea of idling. The concept, as we are used to it, doesn't really even apply to a hybrid.
I remember reading this idea years ago and an stunned almost every day that we don't have a swappable battery IEEE standard. China just adopted one https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/china-ev-swappable-battery-standards-approved/
Maybe my original post should acknowledged a need for the state of AR to protect and stabilize tax revenue. But it seems to me, they used the most blunt tool possible, while also sticking it to folks who are trying to do something better.
Our cultural warrior Arkansas govt decided to punish full electric vehicle owners with a $200 fee. And hybrid owners with $100. Hmmm. All in the name of making up for lost gas tax revenue. Hmmm. I noticed they aren't offering a rebate to folks driving gas guzzlers. Just following their logic. I...
Actually just down the road from us. I didn't call because we are waiting on Area 51. Pretty goofy that they list them online when they are special orders.
It's probably going to be a while before we need them but I've scoped out https://truxedo.com/lopro/2022/ford/maverick About $500.
It doesn't have a lip sticking over the top of the truck bed. So, it allows you to add these T slot Bed https://truxedo.com/product-detail/1118414/ About $135