Watch This Diesel-Electric Edison Pickup Truck Tow an 8,000-Pound Airstream Like It’s Nothing

I’ve been watching Edison Motors with bated breath for years now. If you ask me, the crew there is doing genuinely exciting work with electrification—in both the heavy-duty and the light-duty truck space. I’ve written about its series-hybrid projects multiple times and even interviewed the CEO, and now, they’ve hit another key milestone: Towing 8,000 pounds with their scratch-built pickup that started as a 1995 Dodge and now runs electric axles with a diesel generator under the hood. Last we wrote about this rig, it had just moved under its own power for the first time. Operation was limited to simple back-and-forth, however, as there was still a lot of…

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