Photo: Chasing Cars
By the end of this decade, we’ll probably have enough electric pickup trucks around to make for a new segment. The Hummer, Cybertruck, and R1T are just a few of the names that will be playing this game, and the performance levels they promise are simply out of this world.
Electric pickup trucks are the cherry on the EV market cake. More than a decade of making electric vehicles had to pass before carmakers felt confident enough (both in the market and the technologies available) to place electric motors and batteries in such vehicles.
In the case of the Rivian R1T, that would be a quad-motor setup capable of pushing the truck from standstill to 60 mph (96 kph) in 3 seconds flat. They’re also powerful enough to aid with pulling up to 11,000 lbs (4,989 kg) of weight. The range is estimated, at least for the first variant to be launched, at 300 miles (483 km).
Design-wise, the R1T is one of the best presently out there. It lacks the squareness of the Cybertruck, or the flamboyance of the Hummer, but has something everything in its segment should have: pure truck looks.
But what if, instead of now, the Rivian would have come about back in the 1960s? What type of powertrain would it have used? What would it have looked like?
A possible answer, at least to that second question, comes our way thanks to the guys over at Chasing Cars. It’s a rendering showing a possible look of the Rivian R1T made back in 1960, blending lines from the current version with cues taken from the International A Series and the famous Chevrolet C/K family. And yes, it does look square enough to be a sort of grandfather to the Cybertruck.
As for what’s used to power it, we can imagine pretty much anything we like, this being a rendering and all. But given how there’s never been a powertrain more advanced at Rivian than the one presently offered, we’ll go with that. Or, we could imagine some kind of ICE in there somewhere.
In the case of the Rivian R1T, that would be a quad-motor setup capable of pushing the truck from standstill to 60 mph (96 kph) in 3 seconds flat. They’re also powerful enough to aid with pulling up to 11,000 lbs (4,989 kg) of weight. The range is estimated, at least for the first variant to be launched, at 300 miles (483 km).
Design-wise, the R1T is one of the best presently out there. It lacks the squareness of the Cybertruck, or the flamboyance of the Hummer, but has something everything in its segment should have: pure truck looks.
But what if, instead of now, the Rivian would have come about back in the 1960s? What type of powertrain would it have used? What would it have looked like?
A possible answer, at least to that second question, comes our way thanks to the guys over at Chasing Cars. It’s a rendering showing a possible look of the Rivian R1T made back in 1960, blending lines from the current version with cues taken from the International A Series and the famous Chevrolet C/K family. And yes, it does look square enough to be a sort of grandfather to the Cybertruck.
As for what’s used to power it, we can imagine pretty much anything we like, this being a rendering and all. But given how there’s never been a powertrain more advanced at Rivian than the one presently offered, we’ll go with that. Or, we could imagine some kind of ICE in there somewhere.
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