EV Fleet Inc. 'Condor' electric 1/2 ton truck built in Charlotte NC
 

This is exciting news I came across yesterday - a new company called EV Fleet Inc. will begin producing an electric 1/2 ton truck chassis, with several different cargo options:

EV Fleet, Inc.: | Electric Pickup Trucks for Fleets.

http://insideevs.com/ev-fleet-readys...v-light-truck/

It has a 50kWh pack, and unusually, it has a 5-speed manual transmission. They claim it should have about 100 mile range at 65MPH. It has a flatbed option, a "pickup" option (that seems to lack rear wheel fenders), a box van option - and this is also available with 3kW of solar PV panels (that fold up into position) to power tools on the job site.

The cab is steel frame with a body made with a foam composite that provides ~R11 thermal insulation. It also has a large front storage area - a "frunk" to use Tesla's term.

http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uplo...ck-750x313.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwC_x4gCAAI-zxe.jpg
http://ev-fleet.com/wp-content/uploa...8/Condor-7.png

Other pictures here:
EV Fleet, Inc.: | Electric Truck Gallery - EV Fleet, Inc.:
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte...as-market.html

A couple of brief videos here, and a local news report:
EV Fleet, Inc.: | Videos - EV Fleet, Inc.:

Some renderings and other images:
http://ev-fleet.com/wp-content/uploa...-3-300x210.png
http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uplo.../ev-truck3.jpg
http://ev-fleet.com/wp-content/uploa...dor-Blue-2.png

Very interesting. Cause I know someone is going to ask. It starts at $50k, not bad considering the alternatives.

I like the non-truck look too.

You need to get out more. There are lots of riced out small pickup trucks that look like they were combined with a wet/dry vac here. :eek:

Looks like a Ford Ranger cab?

It may bear some resemblance, but it is a fiberglass foam composite design of their own. It looks like the renderings had a bluff trailing edge on the sides of the fenders, but the actual truck has tapered surfaces; which is better.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiQ5ET7VXYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCu6ETZqKcc

The rendering shows a custom cab, but the rolling prototype has a Ranger cab (from the A-pillars back: doors, windshield, roof).

Compare to:

http://imganuncios.mitula.net/2000_f...5199488047.jpg

Might as well, good way to save $. Buy used tooling. :)

It looks very similar to the pick-up conversion of the old VW (type 1) bug.

VW hood and Dodge headlights.

Depending on how you look at it, the renderings don't seem so bad at all. It even resembles something like a scaled-down International LoneStar.