When Common Motors launched the EV-1 –- the primary electrical car from a serious producer -– virtually three many years in the past, it was something however sensible and helpful. A tiny two-seater, this EV had a practical vary of solely about 70 to 90 miles. Its teardrop form was dictated by aerodynamics reasonably than practicality, so it had no again seat and it sported a tapered again finish that did not depart a lot room for the trunk. It ended up being one of many greatest flops in GM’s historical past, and most of them have been destroyed after their leases expired. It might be a few years earlier than extra sensible EVs hit the market.
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Right now’s EVs are available in quite a lot of sizes and shapes, together with pickup vans. They provide longer driving vary and much more usability than the diminutive EV-1, and pickups now characterize one of many higher use circumstances for electrification with capabilities and options distinctive to their class. For example, battery-powered autos can ship large quantities of torque from their electrical motors, one thing that is particularly helpful for pickups utilized in towing. Plus, bi-directional charging permits electrical pickups to provide energy on the job web site, or to energy the entire home throughout a blackout utilizing their extra-large batteries.
As well as, the low middle of gravity supplied by the battery pack improves an EV pickup’s journey and dealing with over fuel and diesel pickups. Add the big frunk (entrance trunk) that outcomes from not having an engine below the hood, and an EV pickup gives much more utility. Established producers and start-ups caught on to the potential for EV pickups and there are actually there are a number of fashions accessible. Here is a take a look at what’s available on the market at present.
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2025 Ford F-150 Lightning
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Ford’s electrical model of its best-selling F-150 is a comparatively established participant within the EV pickup recreation, having received MotorTrend’s Truck of the Yr award again in 2023. For 2025 it troopers on with few modifications whereas a brand new mannequin is within the wings for subsequent 12 months. Costs begin at about $47,780 for the 2025 Professional SuperCrew Cab model, which makes it the most cost effective truck on our record. Patrons get loads of energy and utility for the cash, though you have to be conscious that its expertise is comparatively previous for an EV and a brand new, devoted electrical mannequin is scheduled for subsequent 12 months.
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For 2025, the F-150 Lightning comes outfitted with a dual-motor drivetrain as commonplace problem. One motor drives every axle for normal all-wheel-drive. Mixed, they produce 452 horsepower within the base version and 580 horsepower in extended-range trim. The bottom battery is a 98 kWh hour unit, however it’s something however base once you stomp the accelerator, boosting this sizable truck from zero to 60 mph in solely 4.2 seconds. The bigger extended-range battery improves that to a whiplash-inducing 3.8 seconds. Vary from the bigger battery pack is rated at as much as 320 miles.
Plus, the F-150 Lightning gives options we expect each truck ought to have. For example, homeowners can depart their autos plugged in once they pull into their driveways after which schedule cost occasions so they will not overlap with the busiest or most costly occasions of day for electrical energy use. Add heated rear seats, 360-degree cameras, hands-free BlueCruise self-driving, and 10,000 kilos of towing capability, and the Lightning makes a wonderful purchase.
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2025 Chevy Silverado EV
Chevy designed the 2025 Silverado EV pickup with rivals in thoughts, in search of to supply extra vary than its rivals. Our comparability discovered the Silverado EV to have an extended vary at 492 miles than any of its rivals, together with the Rivian R1T and the extended-range Tesla Cybertruck. Whereas 2025 costs weren’t accessible from Chevy at press time, Automotive and Driver studies a base worth of $58,995 for the aptly named entry-level Work Truck. It is a bit larger than the Lightning, however it’s nonetheless a wonderful purchase contemplating its vary, new battery tech, and accessible trim ranges and options.
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The expanded trim ranges vary from the Work Truck with fundamental inside facilities and smaller battery pack to the mid-level LT and the luxury-oriented RST. Each Silverado EV mannequin is powered by GM’s Ultium battery expertise, which gives large kWh capacities at decrease costs because of utilizing much less cobalt. Ultium is actually an EV platform, round which Chevy and its sister division GMC construct devoted electrical pickups, reasonably than electrifying current pickup platforms. Its modular nature permits Chevy to fit 14 modules within the base configuration and 20 to 24 modules within the Prolonged Vary and Max Vary fashions.
Ultium additionally delivers quick charging speeds, with Automotive and Driver charging as much as 90 % in below an hour at a fee of slightly below 200 kW. With a maxed-out battery pack, the Silverado EV produces a powerful 754 horsepower, and even the bottom Work Truck makes 510 horsepower. Twin motors drive all 4 wheels in each trim stage, whereas rear-wheel steering is elective. Different options embody an elective adaptive air suspension, a 4.1-second zero to 60 time, luxurious touches like a glass roof, and 12,500 kilos of towing capability.
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2025 Rivian R1T
EV startup Rivian’s first car was the R1T pickup, and it nonetheless comes out close to the highest of many lists of EVs with its lengthy vary and sooner charging than most rivals. Its base worth begins at $73,050. This younger producer started constructing pickups in 2021 for the 2022 mannequin 12 months, and in our first drive of the 2022 Rivian R1T, we pronounced it “the subsequent electrical benchmark” and declared that it was “actually good, interval.” The R1T rapidly grew to become extremely recognizable on American roads with its retro-futuristic rounded traces and its vertical, rectangular headlights related by a protracted gentle bar that wraps round to the fenders.
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For 2025, the R1T’s tech has been up to date to remain forward of its rivals. It is now powered by a lithium-iron-phosphate battery driving two, three, or 4 electrical motors. Twin-motor fashions produce as much as 665 horsepower, 829 lb-ft of torque, and a zero to 60 time of three.4 seconds. With the tri-motor setup, horsepower and torque are boosted to 850 and 1,103, respectively, and the zero to 60 time falls to 2.9 seconds. Throw sanity to the wind and get behind the wheel of the quad-motor R1T to expertise 1,025 horsepower, 1,198 lb-ft of torque, and a time-warping 2.5 second zero to 60 time.
AWD is commonplace on all fashions to assist channel that jaw-dropping energy safely. It additionally boosts the R1T’s off-road prowess, as does its commonplace air suspension. In truth, the R1T features very effectively as a truck in all respects. Its 11,000-pound tow score exceeds the F-150 Lightning and it may haul a 1,764-pound payload. DC quick charging boosts the battery from 10% to 80% cost in as little as half an hour.
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2025 Cybertrick Sjoerd Van Der Wal / Getty Photos
If there have been a crimson carpet present for EV pickup vans, the group could be jostling one another for a glimpse of the Cybertruck. Like it or hate it, it is undeniably a celeb amongst electrical vans and vehicles typically. Setting apart the flamboyant repute of Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, and sensationalistic questions like whether or not the Cybertruck is absolutely bulletproof, we’re left with the query of the place the wedge-shaped truck suits within the electrical pickup truck market.
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The bottom worth of the lower-tier All-Wheel Drive mannequin is $79,990. Figuring out this worth on the Tesla web site could be difficult as a result of it’s a must to uncheck the field that deducts the tax incentives and fuel financial savings from the worth. Failing to uncheck that field makes the worth solely $66,990, which looks as if a typical little bit of Tesla showmanship.
Whatever the Cybertruck’s slippery pricing, it gives good worth for the cash. A overview on GreenCars says, “It gives a mix of standout design, performance, and efficiency in a method that is exhausting to disregard.” They observe that regardless of its imposing look, it handles very effectively each on- and off-road. The Cybertruck’s sound system and quickly enhancing driver help methods obtain specific reward from GreenCars. Whereas the bottom vary is comparatively low at 320 miles, it achieves this via a extremely environment friendly motor and wonderful aerodynamics. A brand new range-extended mannequin with a further battery pack ought to obtain at the very least 470 miles.
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Charging is quick, too, with as much as 135 miles of vary accessible in solely quarter-hour at any Tesla Supercharger. With an 11,000-pound towing capability and a 240-volt outlet within the truck mattress, the Cybertruck is a sensible work truck, too. Plus, its tri-motor Cyberbeast mannequin can leap from zero to 60 in lower than three seconds. Futuristic, sensible, and enjoyable -– what’s to not love?
2025 GMC Sierra EV Denali
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GMC sells upscale vans, and its Sierra EV Denali pickup truck isn’t any exception. The Denali identify is normally reserved for larger trim ranges of GMC fashions, so the truth that the Sierra EV is simply accessible in Denali trim means it delivers a premium driving expertise that begins at $89,900.
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For that worth, the truck comes with a luxurious inside trimmed in premium supplies, GM’s Tremendous Cruise driver help suite, large 24-inch wheels wrapped in 35-inch tires, a panoramic glass roof, GMC’s bed-extending MultiPro Midgate, an Air Trip Adaptive Suspension, and just about each expertise GMC has to supply. Regardless of all its tech, its look is inconspicuous, with solely the colossal wheels to present away its premium aspirations.
Just like the Silverado EV, the Sierra EV Denali relies across the Ultium EV platform. The 2 vans share similarities, however their exterior sheet metallic is exclusive. This offers the 2 autos noticeably totally different profiles when considered from the aspect. A crew cab with a short-bed configuration is the one physique fashion the GMC gives. There are two battery packs accessible — the Prolonged Vary pack delivers 645 horsepower, 785 lb-ft of torque, and 390 miles of vary. The 205-kWh Max Vary mannequin boosts the numbers to 760 horsepower, 785 lb-ft of torque, and a really spectacular 460 miles of vary.
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Extra premium objects embody elective four-wheel steering, GMC’s CrabWalk function, a ten,000-pound tow score, a large 16.8-inch middle touch-screen, 10.2 kW of off-boarding energy, and the elective V2H Enablement Package, which lets the truck’s battery energy your property throughout an outage.
2025 GMC Hummer EV
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The 2025 GMC Hummer EV brings again a reputation from Common Motors’ previous. Hummer was once a separate model inside GM’s portfolio, promoting autos like the huge H1 that was based mostly on the legendary navy Humvee -– a truck that was a case research in extra for a road-going, civilian car. The very identify Hummer H1 conjures a picture of brash showiness. Now the Hummer identify belongs to GMC and it is an electrical car, however in each different respect, this $96,550 truck lives as much as its forebears in gaudiness and flash.
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Certainly, MotorTrend calls the Hummer EV “a gargantuan electrical supertruck” and “one of the extreme battery-powered autos on the highway.” It additionally notes that it is very enjoyable to drive, regardless that it weighs over 9,000 kilos. That is because of the selection of powertrains producing as much as 635 horsepower within the dual-motor configuration or 1,000 horsepower within the tri-motor setup. The latter produces 1,200 lb-ft of torque, by the best way, serving to this colossus hit 60 mph from a lifeless cease in solely three seconds flat.
The Hummer EV is constructed across the similar Ultium platform because the GMC Sierra EV Denali and the Chevy Silverado EV. As such, its off-road credibility will get an added enhance from its four-wheel steering and its related CrabWalk function. At low speeds, this expertise steers all 4 tires in the identical route to permit the Hummer to maneuver diagonally till it clears an impediment. Again on-road, the Hummer EV tows as much as 12,000 kilos and hauls as much as 1,485 kilos, giving it genuine pickup truck utility regardless of its wild picture.
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