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I'm with Clev on this.
You want a transmission.
If you have ever sat in an electric car with a manual transmission, and looked at the ammeter when pulling away in different gears, you will see the world of difference it makes.
On front wheel drive, you need a place for those half-shafts to go anyways, so why not just keep them in that original transmission where they belong? You can always just leave the car in one gear, until you realize what it does to your batteries, and then you can go back to shifting, somewhat like normal.
(I mostly use 2nd and 3rd, occasionally 4th. I would shift more if I had a clutch or higher system voltage)
I have sat in a Tesla and talked extensively with the sales guy. It is a fantasic vehicle, but it's already based on a rear-wheel sports-car.
I do sort of like the truck concept.
There was an S10 truck that was based on the EV-1. It was front-wheel drive and possibly the coolest pickup ever.
If you very specifically DONT want to use front wheel drive, attach a very big and beefy motor to the rear of a truck and run REALLY high voltage to it.
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