The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here. Tesla just revealed it's shocking electric pickup truck to the world and we now know some official details, including specs, pricing, range and more. To say that the Tesla truck was highly anticipated is perhaps the biggest understatement ever. When Elon Musk first suggested Tesla would do a truck, the long wait for the grand reveal began. That wait is now over and the moment of truth has arrived. With the introduction of a truck, Tesla now covers (once the Tesla Model Y and Roadster officially launch) most of the major segments for vehicles. The Model S (large sedan), Model 3 (compact to midsize sedan), Model X (large SUV), Model Y (crossover) Roadster (supercar) and now the truck make for a rather solid lineup of EVs that should satisfy quite a large chunk of the buying public. According to Tesla's press release: Cybertruck is designed to have the utility of a truck and the performance of a sports car. The vehicle is built to be durable, versatile and capable, with an exceptional performance both on-road and off-road. Cybertruck will come in three variants: Single Motor Rear-Wheel Drive, Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive, and Tri Motor All-Wheel Drive. Vehicle Specs: Range: 500+ miles 0-60 mph acceleration: <2.9 seconds Towing capacity: More than 14,000 lbs Payload: Up to 3,500 lbs Vault length: 6.5 feet Storage capacity: 100 cubic feet of the exterior, lockable storage including the vault, frunk, and sail pillars. Suspension: 4” in either direction Touchscreen size: 17” Body: Ultra-Hard 30X Cold-Rolled stainless steel. If there was something better, we’d use it. Seating capacity: Up to six adults Charging: Can be charged at home, at Destination Charging locations, and with our network of more than 14,000 Superchargers, including on our newest V3 technology, which is helpful for long hauls and towing. Price Tesla has just announced incredibly low pricing for the Tesla Cybertruck. Tesla says the truck will start at $39,900 in base trim and top out at just $69,900 in top tri-motor form. That's even lower than the sub $50,000 target announced previously by Musk. Range It’s official, the Tesla Cybertruck has made its world debut. According to CEO Elon Musk, it will have a maximum range of over 500 miles per charge. The base “Standard Range” model will have over 250 miles of range. There will also be another trim level in between the two. It will have over 300 miles of range. Performance The Tesla Cybertruck reveal showed a vehicle that will not have paint options or a traditional bed, but it will be able to tow 14,000 lb, to pull anything, according to Elon Musk, and offer its owners a 2.9 s acceleration from 0 to 60 mph. That is enough for the pickup truck to beat a Porsche 911. The pickup truck will be available with three options of range and engines: an RWD, able to tow up to 7,500 lb with a 250+ mi range, a dual-motor AWD, willing to pull 10,000 lb with a 300+ range, and a tri-motor AWD that has the top specs, but no details. Its range will be 500+ mi. Design The design of the Tesla Cybertruck is a secret no more. It looks, as you can see, like no other truck ever seen outside a sci-fi movie set. Steel panels are finished "au natural" and wearing a distinctive peaked roof – from the side, it's basically a rectangular box with a triangle sitting on top above the beltline.  Production And Availability According to Tesla, production of the lower-priced Cybertrucks may begin in late 2021. However, the tri-motor will follow in 2022. source: https://insideevs.com/news/383691/tesla-pickup-truck-cybertruck-world-debut/

Ford has invested $500 million into Rivian, an electric vehicle startup that purchased the former Mitsubishi factory in Normal, Illinois. Rivian showed off two large electric vehicles at the Los Angeles auto show last year — the R1T pickup truck and the R1S sport utility vehicle. Both deliver nearly 200 horsepower to each wheel and have a combined torque rating of nearly 14,000 Newton-meters. Those are awesome numbers. Credit: InsideEV “The beauty and elegance of our quad-motor setup isn’t just about brute power. This architecture provides instantaneous torque with extremely precise control at each wheel, which is completely game-changing from a dynamics perspective both on- and off-road,” says Mark Vinnels, executive director of engineering and programs for Rivian. In an interview with Motor Trend , Ford CEO Jim Hackett said, “Rivian is a really special thing that’s teaching us about merging not only the powertrain but the architecture that the electronic control unit and other things connect to. So think of it as architecture for the operating system of the vehicle.” The big, brawny Rivian R1T would seem to be the perfect platform for the electric F-150 that Ford is working on, but Hackett cautions not to be too quick to assume that is the case. “You shouldn’t go down the path of assuming it’s a pickup,” he told Motor Trend . The speculation is if it’s not a pickup, it must be an SUV. Whatever the two companies are working on, Hackett suggests the work is progressing nicely. “At the senior levels it’s pretty close. I think a lot of that has been settled, but not ready to talk about.” Ford has declared it will bring 40 electrified vehicles to market by 2022. Of those, 16 will be fully electric and some of those will be built on the Rivian skateboard. In fact, Hackett says the former Mitsubishi factory is perfectly satisfactory for manufacturing whatever the two companies are working on. The rest of those 40 electrified models will be either conventional hybrids or plug-in hybrids. In addition to engineering its own electric vehicle architecture, Ford will use Volkswagen’s electric vehicle platform to expand its European lineup, the first major manufacturer to accept VW’s offer to share its new MEB electric car chassis. If you are keeping track, Ford is actively pursuing at least three different paths to electrification — a partnership with Rivian, another partnership with Volkswagen, and its own internal electric vehicle platform. Will such a collection of strategies be successful in the long run? Jim Hackett certainly thinks so. source: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/18/just-what-are-ford-rivian-up-to/

The revived EV brand Fisker hasn't even launched the sedan and SUV it's been teasing for a couple of years, but that hasn't stopped founder and CEO Henrik Fisker from talking about, and teasing, the next two models. Fisker took to Twitter on Wednesday and tweeted a teaser image that is clearly a CGI render of one of the supposed two vehicles set to come after his electric SUV. The tweet said the automaker's next two electric vehicles (set to come after the SUV that hasn't been shown yet) have been decided, and both will ride on the same platform. The CGI render appears to be a pickup truck shown from the rear. The tailgate has Fisker stamped into it in big capital letters and a horizontal character line runs the width of the tailgate. While the tailgate (and presumably the body) appear to be silver, the top of the cab is black. This design isn't out of character for Fisker as one of the first teasers for the upcoming SUV showed a red body with a black roof, which gave the vehicle a two-tone appearance. Should Fisker's third vehicle (the first being the EMotion sedan that still hasn't launched and is behind the promised schedule, and the second being the SUV) be a pickup that shares its platform with the fourth vehicle, that would make the fourth vehicle a large SUV akin to the Rivian R1S. If Fisker does dive into the electric truck scene, it'll face stiff competition. Tesla has an electric truck in the works that will, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, be unveiled this fall. Ford has not only a hybrid variant of its F-150 in the works but also an electric model, which it recently teased with a prototype pulling a train. General Motors also has an electric pickup truck in development. There's also EV startup Rivian with the R1T and the aforementioned R1S. Fisker's EMotion electric sedan was originally due in 2019 but the launch has been delayed as the automaker works to develop solid-state batteries. Fisker now plans to launch three "affordable" models starting with the SUV, and then the EMotion as a flagship. The Fisker SUV has been teased numerous times and is set to be unveiled in December ahead of a planned launch in 2021. source: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1124485_fisker-might-build-an-electric-pickup-truck-to-take-on-rivian-tesla