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2022 Rivian R1T: a real pickup truck makes an impressive debut

Charged EVs

Instead, it’s aiming to build an authentic-truck brand among what we suspect are current buyers of Land Rovers, top-end GMCs and German luxury trucks. It’s worth nothing that that’s still a full ton lighter than the GMC Hummer EV , which comes in at a jaw-dropping 9,000-plus pounds.). Can Rivian follow that trajectory?

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2025-2035: Rewriting The Automotive History

Get Electric Vehicle

A recent report from the Environmental Defense Fund indicates that electric vehicle sales volumes are growing at a rapid pace, signalling an epochal shift in the auto industry over the next decade. The electric Hummers will be available in pickup and SUV configurations, with truck manufacturing starting this autumn.

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EVs from these brands will soon use the Tesla NACS charge port

Baua Electric

But Ford’s commitment was, for the auto industry, the turning point. Ford wasn’t the first to announce its allegiance to the Tesla port; that nod goes to California firm Aptera , which confirmed in November 2022 its three-wheeler would include only NACS.