Here are 10 Electric Pickups You Charge To Apperceive About

1. Ford F-150 Lightning

The Ford F-150 activity electric is a BIG deal, not atomic because the approved one has been North America’s acknowledged agent (not aloof truck) for 40 years straight. Since the Lightning – which borrows its name from high-performance, petrol-powered F-150s of yore – was appear in May 2021, tens of bags of Americans accept aloof one.

You’re attractive at up to 572bhp and 775lb ft and a claimed 320 afar of range. It has a massive advanced block and article alleged bi-directional power, acceptation the Lightning can ability your tools, or alike your absolute house, for canicule at a time if needs be. Max burden is 900kg, and it can tow 4.5 tonnes. Prices ambit from about $40,000 to $90,000, with deliveries accepted to alpha after this year.

2. Rivian R1T

An all-electric auto barter from an American start-up… you apperceive area this is going. Right? Except you don’t, because this auto comes from an American start-up alleged Rivian. And, clashing that added auto from that added company, it's already in production.

Early trucks get a 300-mile ambit (longer- and shorter-range versions are coming) and quad-motor powertrain for 0-60mph in as little as three seconds, with prices starting from $67,500 (approx. £55k). It’s not abbreviate of loadspace either, with 330-litres in the bonnet, 350-litres in the lockable ‘gear tunnel’, and a 200-litre closed bin below the rear bed floor. Oh, and it can allegedly attack through over 900mm of baptize and tow about bristles tonnes.

Rivian has additionally promised a seven-seat SUV sibling, the R1S, admitting no chat yet of back assembly ability begin. You can apprehend our aboriginal drive of the R1T below.

3. Tesla Cybertruck

Like no barter – no vehicle, alike – that you’ve anytime apparent before. The much-hyped Tesla Cybertruck was appointed to activate assembly backward aftermost year – with Tesla reportedly sitting on hundreds of bags of pre-orders – but that came and went, aback it was pushed aback to 2022. Then, beforehand this year, Elon appear it was actuality pushed aback to 2023, with focus instead on developing the ‘Optimus’ humanoid robot. Because, priorities.

Still, here’s what we apperceive so far. Prices are set to alpha at beneath than $40,000 for the single-motor, rear-drive adaptation and acceleration to $70,000 for the all-wheel drive, tri-motor archetypal with a abstract “500+ miles” of range, a 1.5-tonne max burden and over six-tonne towing capacity. Oh, and 0-60mph in a claimed 2.9 seconds. Tesla insists this is absolutely what the Cybertruck will attending like back it alcove production, too, with its unpainted stainless-steel body, apathetic bottle and basement for six. Like the look?

4. Lordstown Endurance

Lordstown Motors – so called for Lordstown, Ohio, area the aggregation owns an old General Motors factory. At atomic it acclimated to, until it was afresh awash to tech accumulation Foxconn, a move which should advice assuredly see its Endurance electric auto barter access production. Good news.

The Endurance itself is declared to be a able assignment truck, added like the F-150 than the Rivian, with four in-wheel hub motors and a 109kWh array for a claimed 250+ afar of range. Prices alpha at $52,500.

Production is set to alpha after this year, with affairs to body a absolute of 500 by the end of 2022, and 2,500 in 2023. More as we accept it…

5. Hummer EV

The Hummer EV isn’t for tradespeople, not really. Just attending at it. You appetite some numbers? It measures eighteen anxiety long, six and a bisected anxiety high, added than seven anxiety advanced and weighs added than four tonnes. Looks the part, at least.

Billed as the “the ultimate off-road EV supertruck”, the $112,000 First Edition models accept 1,000bhp from three e-motors (drawing ability from GM’s able new ‘Ultium’ battery), 11,500lb ft of torque, can allegedly hit 60mph from a standstill in about three seconds, and accept a ambit of about 350 miles.

It comes with up to 37-inch tyres and a “CrabWalk” affection that credibility the advanced and rear auto in the aforementioned direction. GM claims the Hummer can calibration “18-inch verticals” and attack through over 600mm of water. The Navy SEAL of the auto world, in added words.

6. Chevrolet Silverado EV

Just as night follows day, a Chevrolet auto barter follows a Ford auto truck. And don’t for one minute anticipate it’s aloof a repurposed combustion-engined Silverado: it’s congenital from the arena up on the aforementioned electric belvedere as the Hummer EV.

When it launches in 2023, buyers will accept the advantage of the bells’n’whistles brand $105,000 RST First Edition, or the added asperous and ready, and, er, analytic priced $39,900 Work Truck (WT). Differences? Where the above offers 664bhp and 780lb ft of torque, a 600kg payload, and a towing accommodation of 3,650kg, the closing gets you 510bhp and 615lb ft of torque, a 550kg burden and a 3,650kg towing capacity. Healthy enough.

Perhaps the smartest affair about it, though, is that bed. It measures 5ft 11in long, but accessible the midgate and you get 9ft, or with the alternative tailgate extended, a aberrant 10ft 10in.

7. Alpha Wolf

Another day, addition Californian EV start-up, but Alpha has hit the arena running. We aboriginal casting our eyes on the Wolf aback in March 2021 back it was aloof a 3D rendering. Fast advanced bristles months, and it had acquired into an actual, concrete model. Speedy work.

Here’s what we apperceive so far. There’s set to be three variants, the accepted Wolf, the continued cab Wolf+, and the bifold cab SuperWolf. Buyers will accept the best of distinct motor 2WD, or bifold motor 4WD. Alpha reckons it’ll do 0-60mph in 6.2 seconds, with the 75kWh array acceptable for a ambit of about 250 miles. And get this – Alpha’s targeting a starting amount of aloof $36k (approx. £29k), admitting we’ll accept it back we see it.

Back in January Edward Lee – CEO and arch artist – told us he was acquisitive to accept a analysis ancestor by division two of this year, with affairs to body 25k units a year in 2023, ascent to 50k in 2024. In the meantime, analysis out our absolute photo shoot below.

8. Atlis XT

Another American start-up afterwards a allotment of the electric auto pie, Atlis aboriginal appear its wedge-tastic XT auto to the apple aback in 2019, complete with a claimed Mercedes EQS-rivalling 500-miles of ambit – and a 15-minute abounding allegation time. Wowsers.

The blow of the specs were appropriately impressive: 600+bhp, 12,000lb ft of torque, 0-60mph in 5.0secs, a top acceleration of 120mph, a burden of about 2.3 tonnes, and a towing accommodation of about 16 tonnes. Buyers will accept the advantage of a 6.5 or 8ft bed, with prices starting from $45,000 for the entry-level adaptation with 125kWh array and 300-mile range. The range-topper, meanwhile, with its 250kWh array and 500-mile range, starts from $69,000.

Oh, and one added affair – Atlas claims it’ll accept a one-million-mile activity span… four times as abundant as the boilerplate British disciplinarian reportedly covers in their lifetime. Otherwordly.

9. Edison Future EF1-T

Meet the EdisonFuture EF1-T, which is notable for one acumen aloft all: its solar console roof. Which back you anticipate about it, aloof makes sense, right?

Having fabricated its accessible admission in abstraction anatomy at the Los Angeles Auto Show aftermost year, a solar awning bed is additionally optionally accessible to maximise juicing, as able-bodied as allowance to assure any contents. Oh, and the solar panels will allegation the array back both anchored and driving.

It’s set to be accessible in three specifications: Standard (single motor), Premium (dual motor), and Super (tri motor). While there’s no chat yet on array sizes, we do apperceive it’ll be acceptable for a ambit of 300, 380 and 450 afar respectively.

Whether the accomplished solar charging affair will assignment as able-bodied over in the UK (or if we'll get it) as it will in sunnier climes is addition amount entirely…

10. Canoo Pickup

Remember Canoo? Back in 2019, the California-based (obviously) start-up got us all bemused with its futuristic-looking microbus. A multi-purpose commitment agent followed, and again aftermost year, this – the appropriately called Canoo Pickup.

Reminiscent of VW Type 2 pickups of old (and the afresh teased ID.Buzz pickup...), it offers a six-foot barter bed complete with two-foot cull out extension, a advanced burden accumulator breadth that can authority accoutrement or accessory forth with a bend bottomward worktable with electrical outlets, flip-down ancillary workbenches, hidden ancillary accomplish and accumulator areas, and more.

Canoo says it’ll be accessible in bifold or rear motor configurations, up to 600bhp and 500lb ft of torque, 816kg payload, and about 200 afar of array range. The website is already demography pre-orders, with deliveries accepted as aboriginal as abutting year. Tempted?

Source : https://www.topgear.com/