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Electric Pickup Trucks Are Coming In 2021
After a long wait, electric vehicles are now coming after the biggest and most powerful vehicles on the market
In the start, the stereo-typical electric car was an eco-friendly looking compact that the average consumer likely couldn’t tell apart from a Prius. But that’s the past. Soon, electric vehicles will begin to displace the biggest and highest emitting passenger cars on the road.
Until now, electric vehicle sales have lagged in the US and Canada compared to Europe. Partly, this is due to the lack of incentives, more lax regulation, and lower fuel prices. However, the North American car market is also less favorable to the small electric cars that have so far dominated. According to the National Automobile Dealers Association, over a quarter of the US car market consisted of pickup trucks and SUV’s (with even more in vans). The best-selling model in the US (with around 800,000 units sold in 2020) is the Fort F-series. So far these segments have been untapped by electric cars, but that’s about to change. Automakers have begun to introduce more electric vehicles in the popular crossover segment, and soon we should see the first electric pickup trucks and SUV’s come to market.
