So who will be first with an electric pickup. And when.

jrp26789 wrote:
Someday cars will pull the electricity out of the pavement. Much like cell phones on a surface charger. No plugs. They can go for days, and batteries for the back roads. 1000 hp motors and 100%torque at no rpm. It will be amazing, I hope to see it.

I'm in the highway business and no way do they use in pavement systems. The expense would just be massive. Even if pursued, most pavements don't get reconstructed for 20-30yrs, so it would be a very long time before the system would be converted.

What is somewhat viable is overhead cantenary. This is a well established technology used for city bus systems and rail. There are some experiments to place it on highways for trucks to use with small battery packs to get from the freeway to warehouses.

But even overhead is still massively expensive to outfit on a freeway wide scale...let alone secondary roads.

It might someday take over and RV's might be able to take advantage of it but I would expect it to start first on major trucking routes where dedicated trucks could be used. Then if successful it might spread to other routes. Rural routes popular with RV's could easily be 30-40yrs out...assuming nothing better comes along.