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Originally Posted by snizzle
Why haven't they put the powertrain in an SUV or Truck?
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A truck needs 2-3 times the juice that a small car needs, which therefore means a battery 2-3 times bigger. The battery in the Volt weighs something like 450 lbs, I think. So scale that up by a factor of 3 and you're looking at something around 1300 lbs of battery. Thats a big chunk of the payload capacity for a pickup or SUV.
And I shudder to think how much such a battery would cost. People balked at the price of the Silverado Hybrid a few years ago, and that was just a normal hybrid not a plug-in.
All that said, look up what VIA Motors are doing.