Will Toyota One Day Build an Electric Tacoma?

Has anyone converted a Tacoma to electric power? I like the idea of electric drive motors and a generator to keep the batteries charged.

 

Not a Tacoma, but a still a Toyota Pickup.

http://www.e-volks.com/88_toyota_pickup.html

 

I have personally seen electric Tundra prototypes inside, at the Tesla skunkworks. RAV4 EV uses Tesla technology. Tesla's are built here, where 2nd Generation Tacomas were first built.

Toyota once said all their vehicles would be available in hybrid form by a long time ago.

The answer to OP is no.

 

Exactly. As you have pointed out, Toyota gets into all electric vehicles by proxy through Teslar. When Teslar builds an all electric truck, it maybe rebranded a Toyota and sold only in California to meet one of their regulations.

 

Sweet! Whats the range? 750 feet?

 

Uhhhhhh, one day......Yes.

 

And I like the $4 Harbor Freight "built in" multimeter

 

Prove It.

 

I'll buy one.

 

How many triple As will it need?

 

I hope so. The Offroad capabilities of an electric 4WD are going to be crazy. Low-end torque and traction unlike anything we are now witness to.

I’d love to see the end of gas/diesel engines in trucks and all the superfluous crap required to burn fuel to create motion.

 

All of them.

 

So where will all this power come from to charge all these electric vehicles?

 

Wind, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, and of course the one source the government doesn't want you to know about...









...enslaved electric-type Pokémon.

 

They'll most definitely build an electric truck, but it won't be a Tacoma. It'll probably be unibody.

 

A hybrid will come before an electric truck.

And I personally do not think and electric truck is coming without significant cultural changes in the US.
We do not have enough charging stations to handle being able to charge up every 100 miles (or less if towing) long distances. Its just not practical.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to see the next Tundra (2021?) offer at least a hybrid powertrain option.

 

Pretty close.

"Asking Price $4,900 AS IS approx 10 mile range (very old batteries)"

 

Necro'd!

Anyway my opinion remains that a truck should be a diesel/electric in the same design as a locomotive.