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Tesla Truck revealed and it may be a joke.

zebra03 said:
Were 8o year old people or 16 year old kids using gas pumps 100 years ago ? Probably not .
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https://aoghs.org/transportation/first-gas-pump-and-service-stations-3/

S.F. (Sylvanus Freelove) Bowser sold his newly invented kerosene pump to the owner of a grocery store in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on September 5, 1885.
Less than two decades later, the first purposely built drive-in gasoline service station opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bowser’s invention, which could reliably measure and dispense kerosene – a product that had been in demand for half a century – soon evolved into the metered gasoline pump.

By 1905, the S. F. Bowser “Self-Measuring Gasoline Storage Pump” was known to motorists as a “filling station.”
The original Bowser pump consisted of a square metal tank with a wooden cabinet equipped with a suction pump operated by hand-stroke lever action.
Beginning in 1905, Bowser added a hose attachment for dispensing gasoline directly into the automobile fuel tank. More design innovations followed. The popular Model 102 “Chief Sentry” with its “clamshell” cover offered security when the pump was left unattended (see the Diamond Filling Station of 1920 in Washington, D.C).

Not sure why the "100 years ago" marker was called in, but - pumps were there ...
 
hjames said:
https://aoghs.org/transportation/first-gas-pump-and-service-stations-3/

S.F. (Sylvanus Freelove) Bowser sold his newly invented kerosene pump to the owner of a grocery store in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on September 5, 1885.
Less than two decades later, the first purposely built drive-in gasoline service station opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bowser’s invention, which could reliably measure and dispense kerosene – a product that had been in demand for half a century – soon evolved into the metered gasoline pump.

By 1905, the S. F. Bowser “Self-Measuring Gasoline Storage Pump” was known to motorists as a “filling station.”
The original Bowser pump consisted of a square metal tank with a wooden cabinet equipped with a suction pump operated by hand-stroke lever action.
Beginning in 1905, Bowser added a hose attachment for dispensing gasoline directly into the automobile fuel tank. More design innovations followed. The popular Model 102 “Chief Sentry” with its “clamshell” cover offered security when the pump was left unattended (see the Diamond Filling Station of 1920 in Washington, D.C).

Not sure why the "100 years ago" marker was called in, but - pumps were there ...
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So like I said , those pumps were in place 100 years ago . Were there many 16 yo and 80 yo doing much driving back then .
 
Yes they were used by many women and steam was also quite popular also. Gas engines were high maint. back then and had to have valve jobs regularly (like every year ) depending on use and the brand of course.

The electric starter first used by Cadillac in 1912 sealed the fate for steam and killed off electric cars/trucks back then.
 
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Parman
Quote: I have a neighbor with a rig like that except no stretched frame with a little car behind the cab. Would it be legal to tow a car behind the trailer with 4 wheels down?

Depends on your State's laws and here in Canada different Provinces have different laws.
 
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parman said:
I have a neighbor with a rig like that except no stretched frame with a little car behind the cab. Would it be legal to tow a car behind the trailer with 4 wheels down?
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In some states the practice (known as double towing) is legal but not in others. Generally the first towed vehicle must have a 5w type hitch, the second can be a ball hitch or tow bar. Most 5th wheels lack a stout enough frame to pull a car; many that have a 2" hitch on the back caution that it's intended only for light loads such as bicycles. If any could handle a car I'd think DRV, Luxe, New Horizons and Spacecraft might. Might.

Also many states have overall length limits on such rigs, in some states 65 feet.
 
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Where are you?

Only 1 electric (Tesla -2014) here and in area and I don't see it out on cold winter days.

Owner says he can only make it to the nearest city (about 250 miles or 400 KM ) in the south if he only goes 55 MPH or 90 KPH and that's in the summer.
 
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So you would get short periods of 0 F or colder I would imagine. Central northern states like Montana ,N & S Dakota, Wyoming, Minnesota, Alaska, & maybe a few other areas in the mountains would likely have problems like central Canada.
 
It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch from something I can drive how far I want when I want and be able to tow my 5,000 pound boat for more than 100 miles.

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