http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/american-made-electric-pickup-gets-100-miles-charge.html American-made electric pickup gets 100 miles per charge Sami Grover November 7, 2014
[images http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2014/11/EV-fleet.png http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2014/11/EV-Fleet-Tool-Pack-Open-710x500.png video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQv0nJWEsA EV Fleet Condor 2015 Electric Truck EV Fleet Inc. Sep 17, 2014 EV Fleet Inc.'s Condor 2015 is a pick-up size electric truck. The Condor is a safe and affordable option for fleet use on America’s highways. It will get a range of more than 100 miles between charges. Cost to operate: average of 1.5 per mile. No special charging station necessary. #PlugInPickUp ] As Bob Lutz said about the Chevy Volt, building plug-in cars might be starting at the wrong end of the problem. Given the massive fuel consumption and broad proliferation of trucks and SUVs, focusing our efforts on larger vehicles first might help save more emissions. Interesting things are already afoot in this regard. Tesla wants to make a Ford F150 competitor, and the aforementioned Lutz is now part of Via Motors, a company making range extended trucks and SUVs. Now we can add another player to this potentially lucrative field. Charlotte, NC based EV-Fleet has just launched The Condor, a US-made, all-electric pickup truck that is said to get 100 miles on a single charge at 65mph, or 140 miles at 45mph. It can carry 1,000lbs and its makers claim it will travel 300 miles for the cost of a single gallon of gas. (That's if gas prices don't keep dropping as they have done recently...) The company is initially targeting fleet managers, and probably for good reason. The Condor is a little different looking, and I suspect it will be easier and more economical to market to fleet managers first, rather than try to generate mass market appeal. Fleet managers are indeed showing interest in electrification already. The US Marine Corps, for example, has added electric trucks to its fleet and Indianapolis is building a huge municipal electric vehicle fleet. That said, there's more than a little VW Beetle aesthetics going on here—maybe The Condor could become a cult classic among consumers too. Production, which is located at an old, polluted dye plant turned eco-industrial park, will be scaling up over the coming year. Currently the company employs 13 people but, given that it's planning to build 300 trucks a month by early 2015, it may need to start hiring soon. Who knows, with a massive grid-scale energy storage start-up opening up nearby, EV-Fleet may find some customers pretty close to home. Here's an interesting-looking solar-assisted prototype from the company's website (no word on when and if this will be available for sale). And below that, a promotional video for The Condor. [© 2014 MNN HOLDING] ... http://ev-fleet.com/ https://transportevolved.com/2014/11/11/condor-electric-truck-viable-electric-pickup-future-doomed-mainstream-brands/ Condor Electric Truck: Viable Electric Pickup of the Future ... November 11, 2014 By Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EV-Fleet-s-Condor-Electric-Truck-Revolution-tp4671984.html;cid=1415558161409-36 EVLN: EV Fleet's Condor> Electric Truck Revolution Oct 06 2014 For EVLN posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3Devln+-re%26sort%3Ddate http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=47278&dir=2014/november/11 1st converted Land Rover game-drive EV unveiled @Chobe Game Lodge SA http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/11/12/city-asks-us-help-develop-electric-vehicles.html Jakarta.id asked a US delegation to help the city develop EVs http://insideevs.com/sun-country-announces-plans-additional-1000-charging-stations-canada/ Plans For 1,000 Additional Sun Country EVSE In Canada Announced + EVLN: DOE.ph e-thrust re-bid for 3000 electric-trikes {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-2015-EV-Fleet-Condor-e-pickup-truck-r-100mi-video-tp4672612.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
