Electric trucks are an even worse idea than electric cars. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Electric cars are a bad idea – for numerous economic and practical (as well as environmental) reasons which readers of this column are already very familiar with.
Electric trucks are a much worse idea. So – of course – it’s being lemming-rushed by practically every major automaker, most lately Volkswagen, whose CEO Herbert Diess just said he thinks they are . . . “a good idea.”
And in one sense, he’s right. It is. Trucks are where the money is. Cars – electric or not – hardly generate any net profit for the companies that make them. Trucks, on the other hand, are hugely profitable. In part because people love them – which they do because trucks are what cars used to be.
Big, roomy for people and stuff; i.e., practical.
And in part because trucks are versatile . . . from a manufacturing standpoint.
The best-selling trucks – models like the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado 1500 – serve as the basis for SUVs. Sometimes, several – as in the case of the Silverado, which serves as the basic platform for the Chevy Tahoe and the GMC Yukon and the Cadillac Escalade, too. 
It also makes sense because there is much more space in a truck for battery packs that are almost as big as a small car – and weigh almost as much as some cars once did. These huge battery packs can store a lot of power – and that can be used to power tools, which is a draw for people who buy trucks – many of whom work at jobs sites where there is no power and so would otherwise have to rely upon a generator.
But has anyone thought this through?
