{"id":423965,"date":"2010-03-13T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:08:34","slug":"plug-in-hybrid-f-150-conversion-is%e2%80%a6-still-a-pickup-and-that%e2%80%99s-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/423965","title":{"rendered":"Plug-In Hybrid F-150 Conversion Is\u2026 Still A Pickup (And That\u2019s a Good Thing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5933\" title=\"alte1\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/alte1-600x389.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my fair share of trucks. I know they need to put up with a lot of abuse and neglect. These things are built to be used. Electric cars are coming, and soon, but it might take trucks a bit longer to catch on. Ford is taking a stab at it with its <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/02\/15\/a-short-test-drive-in-the-ford-transit-connect-electric-a-few-more-details\/\" >electric Transit Connect van<\/a>, and Nissan is talking about an <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/12\/nissan-could-bring-nv200-compact-minivan-to-u-s-may-include-electric-version\/\" >electric NV200<\/a>. But neither is a pickup, and I haven&#8217;t seen too many electric trucks demonstrated. There aren&#8217;t even any truly viable hybrid pickups.<\/p>\n<p>ALTe has a clever solution that sounds promising. At the World Truck Show, they unveiled an F-150 plug-in hybrid demonstration pickup with a 4-cylinder engine and a 25 kWh battery pack that they make some impressive claims about. For starters, a 52-mile all-electric range, and better gas mileage than most diesels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/13\/plug-in-hybrid-f-150-conversion-is-still-a-pickup-and-thats-a-good-thing\/#more-5932\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ucapk02x0gs:yJxvUdlP0j8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/ucapk02x0gs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my fair share of trucks. I know they need to put up with a lot of abuse and neglect. These things are built to be used. Electric cars are coming, and soon, but it might take trucks a bit longer to catch on. Ford is taking a stab at it with its electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}