"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
03/30/2018 at 09:13 • Filed to: None
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"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
03/30/2018 at 09:13 • Filed to: None | 0
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Today’s QOTD is whether or not a fully electric Jeep lifestyle city car could be successful in America.
The Treo was a hydrogen fuel cell concept from circa 2003, right about the time all these millennials were starting to get out of their diapers.
If Jeep were to announce tomorrow that the Treo is going live in production as a full EV, would the millennials be all over it or would it fail miserably?
Caption this.
benjrblant
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 09:23 |
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But how would it look with the angry weangler face?
Wacko
> benjrblant
03/30/2018 at 09:24 |
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guessing just like that but without the bigass wheels
Mercedes Streeter
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 09:28 |
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It would fail miserably in the Millennial demographic, we can’t afford that thing!
Now baby boomer hippies? It would probably sell like $5 footlongs!
Future next gen S2000 owner
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 09:30 |
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Jeep could sell herpes and still be successful.
punkgoose17
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 09:30 |
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I think you are talking about Gen Z born from ~1995-2006? You need to wait 10 years and not make something ugly like that.
nermal
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 09:38 |
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A fully electric Jeep, yes.
That ugly golf cart with a Jeep grille, no.
BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 10:06 |
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Why do I feel like your knees would be the crumple zone in that thing?
Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/30/2018 at 10:19 |
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That form factor wouldn’t cut it. Most people younger than me that I see driving new Jeeps are in the crossovers - Renegades, Compasses, Cherokees.
For Jeep to be successful with an electric or fuel-cell vehicle it would likely have to look like a Renegade or Compass with a frunk. For the Forward Control-city car look to work, it would need a small pickup bed instead of that boat-tail and bike-rack combo.
Make it on the short-wide platform as a single-cab pickup on the Renegade wheelbase. Make it a double-cab pickup on the Compass wheelbase. Give it a big battery pack and lots of range. Load it with the best UConnect system and lots of safety features. Put a solar panel on the roof for passive charging. That way people could take their Treo camping.
As someone who serviced non-blackberry smartphones in 2004, I know how upset people got with their Treo battery dying.
RT
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/31/2018 at 08:05 |
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