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Hilux, Ranger EV ute conversions by Roev from $47,990 as company confirms 2023 production

EV Central

Roev will remove the ICE from Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers and replace them with an electric motor and batteries. The Boston Consulting Group recently forecast that 55 percent of new utes sold in Australia by 2030 would be electric. That’s for a 64kWh battery pack with a claimed 240km of EV range.

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BCG Report Expects Battery Costs Will Constrain Widespread Market Adoption of Fully Electric Vehicles, Absent a Technology Breakthrough; Forecasts 26% of Major Market New Cars in 2020 To be Hybrid or Electric

Green Car Congress

Although lithium-ion cell and pack costs are expected to fall sharply by 2020, they are unlikely to drop enough to support widespread adoption of fully electric vehicles without a major breakthrough in battery technology, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). million will be fully electric, 1.5