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The Electric Age is About to Take Over the Job Site
Given the prices they’ll be charging for their first battery-powered pickups, automakers see a huge opportunity in work trucks.
A Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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It wasn’t that long ago that the conventional wisdom on electric pickup trucks is that they weren’t quite up to the task of work duty. Heavy and expensive batteries would make it difficult to tow big payloads. The outsized cost of electric vehicles would be beyond what contractors and budget-minded fleet owners would pay.