Featured Toyota Hilux EV Concept Debuts To Preview Potential Zero-Emissions Truck

I want this EV truck. It would be far more useful and economical than F1 Lightning.

Toyota Hilux EV Concept Debuts To Preview Potential Zero-Emissions Truck

The only thing is that I don't think it will ever come to the US market.

 

Exactly! Here in the US, pick-up trucks have become luxury SUVs with a small open bed. What I need is a truck with a long bed that can take 8x4 plywood flat on the bed floor.

None of today's mini pick-up can do that. I almost bought the last breed of the kind, an old used Ford Ranger regular cab (no extra seat or space behind front seats) with a long bed, when I was looking for a replacement for our Sienna mini-van which was being used as a utility van at that time. But, the truck was a mess, all rusty, with high mileage, and the price was way higher than what I was expecting to pay for an old beat-up pickup truck.

 

I am actually more interested in Honda's new BEV Kei van. It is even more economical than regular mini-pickups. But I know for sure it is not coming to the US.

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Neither can my $40K Escape PHEV. Yeah, what do you expect for a $7300 neighborhood BEV? Even without any incentives, I can buy 7 of them for the price of one F150 Lightning. It would be very handy for our around-town hauling.

 

Toyota had a concept SUV with fold-down seats that made a flat-floor like that. But it never made to the real product AFAIK. I don't really care about seats. If the Ford E-Transit cargo van was a bit more affordable, it would be perfect.