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

valhalla360 wrote:

John & Angela wrote:
One thing I would like to see in a pickup is a built in 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter for utility or camping use. Make it so the traction battery can’t be run below a certain percentage point. Eg. If you know you need 35 per cent to get home or to the nearest fast charger station so you can’t run the traction battery below 35 percent. This would add a lot to the off grid camping experience in my opinion. Solar on RV’s is great but we tend to look for shaded spots soooo. I hope they do the same think with b class type vans.

Even in sunny spots, solar isn't viable for propulsion level charging with an RV. A 500w system might generate 2kwh per day, so to fill a 100kwh battery bank from 50% discharge would take 25 days. Plus if you have a solar system, you don't need to pull off the truck batteries in the first place.

I could see something like this for contractors not towing. Power saws and similar tools need a lot of power but for short periods of time. Often they just crank up a portable generator and leave it running for hours when they use the saw for 5 seconds every 5 minutes. I don't see it as a viable RV use.

Pulling power for the RV from the truck battery sounds great but they are already struggling to get sufficient range eating up 50-70 miles of range with no way to recharge cuts that range even more.

I was referring to conventional RV solar for the house. Not the traction battery. When we dry camp it also sometimes involve non sunny spots so RV solar is sometimes not a great assist. Access to the 100- 150 KWH vehicle traction battery would be useful for us for smaller loads. May not work for your uses. Even if you pulled 4 KW a day for 7 days of camping it would be little load for the traction battery. 4 KW can go a long way when dry camping...at least for us. Every body camps different.