Whenever I was asked whether I would buy an electric vehicle my reply was "I'm waiting for a Toyota electric pickup truck."
The theory was that Toyota would have worked out the major bugs in EVs by the time they tried it on a pickup truck. You've heard the old saying: "Be not the first on whom the new is tried nor the last to cast the old aside. Toyota isn't there yet, so I'm still waiting.
But here's one that's getting in on the early action. If it does all they say it will do then it will be quite a vehicle: tough and powerful with a long range of battery life. From the Rivian R1T website:
Up to 400 miles without recharging;
Able to drive through water three feet deep;
0-60 in 3 seconds;
Four motors cranking out a total of 740 horsepower;
Starting price of $61,500 after Federal Tax rebate.
They are speculating that they might be available a year after production starts in 2020. But anyone who has followed Tesla's development will know that early predictions aren't always reliable. In any event, the R1T certainly looks like a step in the right direction.
Now if only Toyota would make one.
Meanwhile, Cnet.com has a writeup about it:Meet the Rivian R1T, a 400-mile, all-electric luxury pickup truck.
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3:16 PM 12/31/2018
P.S. Does the front end of the R1T remind anyone of the Edsel?
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