[HBlix]

Elon Musk says a lot of things, I’ll believe that they have a viable pickup when it’s rolling off the assembly lines. I’m also not sure that the market for pickups will care too much about having an EV. All in all it’s a very different market with a different customer base than luxury sedans.

[briffle]

People who actually use their trucks would love them. They would have full tourqe at 0 RPM. It would be awesome for towing. The lack of an engine bay could give it a huge bed, or a frunk to store things out of the weather...

[fooker]

>Elon Musk says a lot of things

Like landing first stages, apparently. Crazy guy.

[gameswithgo]

more torque! highly capable AWD

[greglindahl]

And a quieter ride. I bet a significant % of the existing "truck" market would be interested in these features.

[asauce]

Yea I fully agree. In my experience the truck market is the one that is the most attached to their ICE's. I could be wrong, but Tesla will probably have a lot of trouble taking a solid portion of that market.

[nickik]

There has been market research and this 'attached to ICE' is true as long as people don't see a viable option that the can compare to.

There will surely people who will hold on to ICE but if you can buy a produce that has electric drive train and competes on all metric its is incredibly unlikely that it would not find a market.

Specially if it has features that ICE don't have, like the ability to attach power tools.