Last week, I was in rural Wisconsin testing Can-Am's new all-electric Outlander ATV, and as you'd expect, the topic of EVs in the outdoors arose. How could it not? But more so, we talked about how the youths of today have been far more enthusiastic adopters of the technology, with EV dirt bikes being the easiest metric to point toward.
Yet, while there's still a number of old guard decrying the switch between gas to electric—"these young whipper snappers need to learn how to adjust a carb, by gammit!"—the growing chorus among the industry as a whole is one moving toward an EV-only future.
