EV Pickup Trucks

46 votes

I think adding EV trucks to the game would be a great idea. Instead of fuel stations you have charging stations. Vehicles could spend longer charging than they would filling up with diesel. Perhaps just the small pickup truck size as an EV option.

Under consideration Suggested by: jack lockwood (13 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 04 Dec, '23 • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

13 Oct, '21
Yandersen
I don't see it will not come to this tier eventually when alternate energy sources like solar power (and with that - accumulators) come into game, so I think it is just a matter of time till other prerequisite techs been developed. Shortly saying, too early to suggest this.
13 Oct, '21
Pttg
Cool idea! What I like about this is that it challenges the idea of "bigger is better"
13 Oct, '21
jack lockwood
Yeh, i thought if it was just the small pickup trucks with a longish recharge time it would make it difficult to swap your entire fleet over. The small loads and long wait would mean you need even more on the road to achieve the same workload and you would quickly run out of vehicles you can command. Also the pickup trucks would be the easiest ev vehicle to try produce from a logistical and technological standpoint, which makes the feasible within the current game. Anything more advanced would need better techs which could come further down the road. They could even be made to have a limiting range in which they can work from a charge station.
Tech level im thinking lead acid batteries, think milk float but a bit more advanced.. They should have a higher maintenance that diesel vehicles also, early ev tech is not what ev tech is today..
What they would help with is fuel crisis situation and other things that can lead to running out of fuel, an alternative energy usage for transport.
31 Jan, '22
UberBlue
I really like this idea.
10 Jun, '22
Dyanosis
This doesn't solve/help a fuel crisis. All forms of Electricity in the world still require a fuel of some sort to make them work/function (like oil is used for solar panels). So you're never completely free to just "wow, I have energy with no negative". Even electric vehicles could suffer to a fuel shortage, though hopefully you'd have enough power stored to make up for that and sustain until you recover.

Think flywheels. They still require oil/maintenance to function, but yet they provide electrical energy (aka the power grid).