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sokon electric van
03/25/2021 David Zatz 0 Comments

Old AM General plant to make Sokon vans for Electric Last Mile

A former AM General plant, sold to the American branch of a Chinese automaker, has been resold to a Michigan-based company—which will, it appears, use it to assemble electric vans from Chinese parts. Vans were the last “normal” electric vehicles, particularly in Britain, where they picked up goods from rail yards and deliver them to […]

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Bollinger electric pickup truck
03/14/2021 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

The big electric pickup list, updated

Here are all the electric pickups we know about, in one table. We are reporting what we know about; there are things we don’t know about. Not everything is comparable to gasoline powered cars (e.g. torque at the wheels). Most of these figures are not final, and some may be hyperbole. Electric car companies have realized […]

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tesla cybertruck
08/02/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

2020 – no, wait, 2021 – maybe 2022 is when the flood of good electric vehicles is coming

Lucid Air starts production next year, and Rivian will be pumping out tens of thousands of Amazon vans and maybe some Ford-badged pickups and other vehicles. But the electric vehicle world will really be hopping in 2022, when all the various new electric car companies will either be running at full speed, or at least be […]

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Lordstown Endurance electric truck
03/21/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Bad timing for the electric pickup party

Several startups and some major players are trying to pump out electric pickups, but it seems as though time may have run out on them. Thanks partly to the coronavirus outbreak, coupled with a stock market bubble and an incredibly overleveraged (over-indebted) corporate world, there may be few people who can buy their products when […]

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Bollinger electric pickup truck
03/12/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Luxury-electric Bollinger to have electric “skateboards” for other automakers

Do you want to make commercial vehicles or perhaps specialty trucks, but need an electric powertrain and chassis? Bollinger will come to your rescue, with its E-Chassis. This “skateboard” is a frame, suspension, and powertrain set up for Class 3 trucks (akin to Ram 3500 and Ford F-350). Serving suggestion If, say, Ram wanted to […]

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Lucid Motors electric car
03/10/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Lucid racing to get sports car on the road

Lucid Air, which started by delivering electric-car technology to other companies and is now preparing what might be the most sleek, attractive electric car on the market, is racing to get its Arizona factory built with speed not seen since World War II. Other companies bought factories from GM, Mitsubishi, and Toyota; Lucid is building […]

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Lucid Motors electric car
02/21/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Lucid Air, possibly most efficient and attractive electric, showing at NYC

Lucid Motors’ first car, the Lucid Air, will appear in April at the New York Auto Show. The Silicon Valley automaker developed its own powertrain technologies, and reportedly has the world’s most efficient electric engine: the range is predicted to be 400 miles (easily beating any Tesla), without extra-large battery packs. The company claims its […]

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Lordstown Endurance electric truck
02/19/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Comparing all the electric pickups

Here are all the electric pickups we know about, in one table. There are many blank spots, and not every factoid is final or definite or even on the same scale; for example, GM’s release on its Hummer lists torque at the wheels, but that doesn’t correspond easily to the SAE torque we’re used to […]

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Lordstown Endurance electric truck
02/07/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Inside the Endurance electric pickup, from Lordstown

Rivian has major backers, a massive backlog of orders, and the old Diamond Star (Mitsubishi/Chrysler) plant in Illinois. Tesla has marketing money can’t buy, including constant sci-fi media propaganda pushing Nikola Tesla’s genius to levels he himself (immodest though he was) would be surprised by; and they have plants in California and China. Bollinger has […]

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Arrival truck for UPS
01/31/2020 Clark Westfield 0 Comments

Yet another electric truck player: UPS buying 10,000 Arrival trucks

There’s yet another player in the electric-truck market: Arrival, a British company which landed a 10,000-truck order from UPS ($440 million). The deal also comes with UPS buying a portion of Arrival, making it a partly-American-owned company; but Hyundai-Kia has also bought in, to the tune of $110 million, and will sell some Arrivals as […]

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