Truck of the Year

IdaD wrote:
EV's won't be viable as consumer towing vehicles except for around town until there's some breakthrough in battery technology or some of the seemingly farfetched technology like in-road charging come to fruition. The range and charging options are too limited and when something like an unanticipated headwind occurs you could find yourself in trouble.

That said, most midsize and half ton pickups don't tow that often (or probably even at all). Take towing out of the equation and these electric pickups can start to make some real sense to a lot of users.

for myself I think the bottle neck has been how long it takes to charge them as well, but ford just came out with a cable that is capable of charging your car from empty to full in 5 min. now they propbaly have some tweaking to do with the ability to keep the bateries cool at that charge rate but that will be the game changer to me. being able to "fill up" the batteries in about the same amount of time it takes to get gas in a normal car .

this still won't help the towing range for now, that will take larger battery packs, but there are some interesting projects showing good results with new battery designs, but I think anyone who does a lot of towing will be keeping there trucks for a while.

Steve