Has anyone heard of what kind of towing capacity these EV trucks will have?

 

It's probably too early for those kind of specs. First they have to build, debug, and test it before releasing that kind of information.

 

Watched an interview on one of the financial channels and the subject came up about how long it would be before electric and/or hybrid vehicles would make up any substantial percentage of total vehicle population world-wide, and everybody agreed: decades. A number that I found surprising was there's about 3 billion vehicles on the road around the world today - about a million are hybrid or electric... WoW...

 

My handy dandy calculator says that is about 0.03%, or 1 in every 3,000 vehicles.

 

I agree absolutely. Just consider in the US alone the average age of a vehicle on the road today is almost 12 model years old.

However, how long until EV's are say 25% of all NEW vehicles sold? 50%? 75%? I don't think it's going to be decades for that. I think it's coming quicker than most people anticipate.

 

Depending on the political party affiliation that is in power EV use could be pushed faster as could self driving cars. The government could force dino fuelled cars off of certain travel lanes, increase taxes and emission requirements to the point where all but a few will still be on the road.

When it comes to trailer towing and long distance driving a dino fuelled engine has the advantage. When the perpetual recharged fuel cell comes into existence the oil companies will be finding other endeavors. I envision a vehicle with two separate battery banks, one being charged by solar and wheel spin while the other drains, at a certain point the roles reverse and the depleted bank charges.

 

One other thing not considered about EVs is that the "motor" only has one moving part. It's not hard to make that last 1,000,000 miles, or maybe even more. I've read somewhere that the Tesla motor is expected to last 1,000,000 miles.

 

Tesla's have already been used in luxury fleets (ie limo services) along side Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, and other competing and comparatively priced models. These fleets have reported a drastic reduction in cost-per-mile with the Tesla vs the others when everything is considered: fuel costs, maintenance, repairs, etc. Some of those same fleets have reported Tesla's with the original battery packs going 300,000+ miles and still maintaining very healthy charge capacities. So there's that too.