{"id":196,"date":"2023-06-06T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2023-06-16T06:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T06:17:43","slug":"electric-pickups-the-old-is-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/electric-trucks\/electric-pickups-the-old-is-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Pickups: The Old is New"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" width=\"563\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-1024x661.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-768x495.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-1536x991.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-2048x1321.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/old-pickup-1568x1011.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One hundred years ago the most popular vehicle was a pickup. Many people lived and worked on farms, and needed vehicles for hauling farming equipment and materials. Carrying people was secondary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today there are a considerable number of electric pickup brands:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/ford\/f-150-lightning\">Ford F-150 Lightning<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/chevrolet\/silverado-ev\">Chevrolet Silverado EV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/gmc\/sierra-ev\">GMC Sierra EV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/cars\/gmc\/hummer-ev\/\">GMC Hummer EV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/tesla\/cybertruck\">Tesla Cybertruck<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a38513569\/toyota-electric-pickup-truck-concept\/\">Toyota Tacoma EV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/cars\/rivian\/r1t\/\">Rivian R1T<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a35812872\/canoo-electric-pickup-truck-revealed\/\">Canoo Pickup Truck<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a29875012\/lordstown-and-gm-electric-pickups\/\">Lordstown Endurance<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The US pickup truck market is so popular that <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/382973\/nissan-all-electric-pickup-truck-promises\/\">Nissan plans future EV pickups<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/580372\/volkswagen-considering-electric-truck-us\/\">Volkswagen is seriously looking into entering the electric pickup truck market<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago the most popular vehicle was a pickup. Many people lived and worked on farms, and needed vehicles for hauling farming equipment and materials. Carrying people was secondary. Today there are a considerable number of electric pickup brands:&nbsp; Ford F-150 Lightning Chevrolet Silverado EV GMC Sierra EV GMC Hummer EV Tesla Cybertruck &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/electric-trucks\/electric-pickups-the-old-is-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Electric Pickups: The Old is New&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,188],"tags":[197,191,193,192,198,196,194,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.self-drivingandelectricvehicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}