Electric cars are taking off, so what's the problem with an electric pickup truck?

Published Thu, Aug 31, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    Washington

    AMERICANS no longer face a lack of choice when choosing an electric car - unless, that is, they want a pickup truck.

    Although sales of electric vehicles are soaring, with 105,000 plug-in vehicles sold by August this year - a 35 per cent increase on the same period in 2016 - car manufacturers have yet to put an electric truck on the road.