Diesel pickups are for chumps

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

A bit tongue in cheek perhaps. A Tesla buddy forwarded this to me.
http://www.atlismotorvehicles.com/xt-truck/
Anyone seen it yet? I’m on the list for a Bollinger, and will probably pass, but wow.

I drove a one-ton Cummins 6MT / SRW for about a decade, and really only towed a pile of crap jeep around.

But wow, 35,000lbs up 6% doing 65mph?

[fitz19d]

Coming 2020... if it's anything like the Elio, best not to put any $ into it until actually on the market and not vaporware.

[ray1970]

They need an option to make it blow black smoke. That would confuse the tree huggers if you were driving an electric vehicle and “rolling coal”.

[Bailey Guns]

Change is coming...whether we like it or not, whether it's good or not.

[Martinjmpr]

Love the picture of the electric truck pulling the 5th wheel.

I'm guessing that if you lived where I do in Columbine, you could maybe pull that 5th wheel to Chatfield Reservoir before you needed to plug it in and charge it again.

Until and unless there's some kind of breakthrough in battery or charging technology & infrastructure, electric vehicles are going to continue to be confined to urban and suburban areas.

I really think hybrid technology has more of a future, just because it's easier to carry more potential power (fuel) in a smaller volume than there is with batteries. Potentially you could have a hybrid system is that like an electric vehicle (or like a diesel locomotive) where there is no physical connection between the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and the drive wheels, instead the ICE just runs a generator that sends power to the wheels via wire. That eliminates the need for a transmission and allows you to have a separate motor on each wheel, which means you could choose RWD, FWD, or AWD with the touch of a button. Traction control, skid control and ABS could also be built in electronically.

I have nothing against electric vehicles but the range and charging problems are their Achilles heel.

BTW I don't get the "front trunk" option. My thought is, if you have that much space to spare, use it for batteries.

[CapLock]

Going to cost a fortune.

[brutal]

A bit tongue in cheek perhaps. A Tesla buddy forwarded this to me.
http://www.atlismotorvehicles.com/xt-truck/
Anyone seen it yet? I’m on the list for a Bollinger, and will probably pass, but wow.

I drove a one-ton Cummins 6MT / SRW for about a decade, and really only towed a pile of crap jeep around.

But wow, 35,000lbs up 6% doing 65mph?

You don't think the RAM 3500 can run its 39K GCWR 65MPH up a 6% grade?

[wctriumph]

Seem like a great idea. I would drive one.

[Aloha_Shooter]

There's a reason ships use electric motors to power the props and diesel engines to recharge the batteries or power the motors in a pinch ... ;-)

[wyome]

There's a reason ships use electric motors to power the props and diesel engines to recharge the batteries or power the motors in a pinch ... ;-)

Because they don't make long enough underwater rated extension cords?