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

