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It's encouraging to see this. It's about time for electric pickup trucks. The price point ($60K) is going to be a problem for work trucks.

They talk about high speed, not low-speed high-torque. They don't say much about how the drivetrain behaves at low speed. Do they have locking differentials, or something that prevents wheel spin? It's a two-motor system. Does the motor control system know how to keep the front and back wheels in sync when traction is bad? You don't have a front-to-back differential; that's a software operation here. How good is very low speed, high-torque operation? There's no shifting, so you have to do low-speed control in software. With good software and differentials, this could be a good rock-crawler. Can you pull a stump with this thing? They should be able to do this, assuming they're using 3-phase motors like everybody else today.

Providing 120VAC power out is a nice feature. They don't say much about charging. It should carry a charger that can charge from 120/240VAC, so you could charge slowly from any power outlet if you have to. Or another Bollinger. You'd have a big charger at home base, but opportunistic charging is a necessity when you're far from charging stations.

Really needs air bags, and fewer sharp edges in the passenger compartment. Off-road that thing and you'll cut yourself on the door handles. Once they find a real manufacturer, they can clean up the interior.

Does it have a heater? That's a big problem with electrics, especially ones like this with no insulation.

[1] http://bollingermotors.com




> It's about time for electric pickup trucks.

Ford used to sell (in the 90s) an electric Ranger. It used lead acid batteries.

It wasn't a big seller, and it didn't get great range - but it did exist for a bit. Not sure why they made it, though.

/The Ford Ranger (ICE) was actually a very popular small pickup for commercial usage; tons of companies used them, especially utility companies or other companies of that nature. They tended to be very rugged little workhorses, and their size - though small - was still very capable of handling some decent sized loads.


What electrics have a "big problem with heating" and what are the other vehicles are in the class of "this one, with no insulation"?

Also what is your off-road experience, that you can say "you'll cut yourself on the door handles." _citation needed_


Regarding your comments on charging - I hope that they add a charging port for solar. If you ever got stuck, and you had a panel with you (for camping or whatnot), you'd at least have some method to get topped up.


A 100 watt solar panel, a typical size for camping, would take 600 hours of bright sunlight to charge a 60KWh battery. About 10 weeks. In 10 hours you could get 1KWh, and might be able to move a bit.


This thing is screaming for solar panels on the roof.




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