As folks who live and breathe powersports machines, we don't often talk about the trucks and SUVs we're required to use all that often. Everything from trailering dirt bikes to Oregon for a hunt, tossing a backcountry snowmobile into a bed, or hauling a full-size UTV out into the middle of nowhere for some off-road desert fun requires a truck or SUV. And you need something that'll do the damn job and do it well.
As such, towing and payload capacities are wildly important to us all. Those, however, aren't great action items to talk about when you start conversing about all-electric trucks and SUVs, though you'd expect better given all the torque and horsepower figures bandied about.
Right now, EV trucks just aren't capable of towing or hauling much of anything without sacrificing a metric ton of range. Any additional weight just saps batteries, and if you add the rather cumbersome airflow around those items, that increased drag compounds the problem. I wish it weren't so, but it's the reality of our current battery chemistries.
