In recent years, domestic pickup trucks have become popular, but in the United States on the other side of the ocean, the wave of pickup truck electrification has been blown. From Tesla CyberTruck, Rivian R1T, Ford F-150 Lightning to Hummer EV, it can be seen that the US pickup truck market is gradually transforming to electric, and this trend may be inevitable. Pickup truck as a car with tool attributes, for its electrification editor this conservative attitude has been holding a wait-and-see attitude, after all, electric pickup truck is too subversive, before seeing any mature product form, do not dare to make a bold idea. Sitting in the well and watching the sky, next, Xiaobian will summarize the latest developments of overseas mainstream electric pickup trucks at this stage.
Tesla Cyber Truck: Time to market has been delayed again and again
Tesla these three words in recent years has been on the cusp of the storm, the Various actions of this American electric vehicle brand, which has attracted a lot of waves, but also caused great concern among the domestic masses. Although people have mixed reviews of Tesla, Elon Musk's marketing methods do have unique features. For example, Tesla Cyberruck, which opened reservations two years ago, although the time of the new car to be launched has not been determined, but it has not affected the electric pickup truck from around the world to win orders, and there is news that Cyber Truck will not be delivered until 2023.
Rivian R1T: Deliveries didn't meet expectations and shares were implicated
At the same time that Tesla Cyberruck released various "news" and "secrets" at both ends of the three days, its new car-making rival Rivian not only made the R1T pickup truck officially go offline, but also let the new car be truly delivered to the hands of customers. For the full year of 2021, Rivian produced 1,015 vehicles, falling below its production target, delivering 920 vehicles. As of March 8, the company had produced 1,410 vehicles in 2022, bringing a total of 2,425 since production began. Despite successful deliveries, lower-than-expected production also implicated its stock.
Ford F-150 Lightning: Chips hinder production
Compared with Tesla Cyberruck's "pre-momentum, late difficult production", as a big man in the pickup truck industry, the electrification process of the Ford F-150 is more crisp, and it only took a short time to launch the F-150 Lightning pickup. Less than 48 hours after Ford's first electric pickup was exposed, the new car received 44,500 orders in one fell swoop, and the ordering situation was hot. In the face of the super popularity of the F-150 Lightning pickup, Tesla CEO Elon Musk immediately posted a congratulatory message to Ford.
After orders for the Ford F-150 Lightning topped 100,000 units last June, it basically increased at a share of more than 10,000 units per month. On the other hand, for Ford, the factory is facing a lot of pressure and challenges. Among them, the chip shortage is the first to bear the brunt, which is also an important shackle that plagues global car companies. Second, the Ford F-150 Lightning needs a powerful battery pack as a support, and the collection of batteries also requires a lot of time and effort for them.
Hummer EV: Or will be introduced to the country
After the Ford F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T completed the off-line, the Hummer EV followed, and last year's Shanghai Expo Hummer also ushered in the Chinese debut, as a totem-style off-road vehicle, HUMMER EV is positioned in a full-size pickup truck, the maximum torque can reach 15592N·m, and has a crab mode four-wheel steering function. On this basis, the acceleration time of 0-96km/h is only 3 seconds, which is a pickup truck that integrates off-road performance and road performance.
According to the official introduction, the Hummer EV is expected to be introduced to the Chinese market in the form of imported cars in the future. The price of the car has been announced in the United States before, and the highest version is about 740,000 yuan.
With the increasingly severe emission standards, pickup trucks in recent years gradually towards small displacement turbocharging, in the engine structure and workmanship process can not reach the working conditions of large-displacement naturally aspirated engines, coupled with the new energy relaxed policy environment, many companies will turn pickup trucks to pure electric. In the domestic market, most of the electric pickup trucks are used for enterprises or the government, ordinary consumers rarely buy individually, there are two reasons, first of all, electric vehicles are used to replace the internal combustion engine with motors, and the battery pack plus body weight will limit the load and endurance of the pickup truck to a certain extent. The second is the cost, the cost of electric vehicle research and development is higher than that of fuel vehicles, the cost is not easy to control, and the market prospect is not clear, it is not easy to do the pool, so the price cannot be reduced. For ordinary people in China, the popularity of electric pickup trucks is too far away, and most people can only watch a hilarity.