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Nissan should make an electric Titan that looks like the old Alpha-T concept. That thing looked so awesome.

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I don’t follow trucks, so this was the first I heard of the Alpha-T. Would definetly take that over the Cybertruck.

Here it is for anyone else not familiar. It may have been a bit much for 2001, but in the 2010s with the Total Recall and Blade Runner remakes, this would’ve fit in great!

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I’m following the development of Edison Motors, which will offer Diesel/EV hybrid kits for pickups and semitrucks. An unadvertised aspect of this is that because they’ll also have too offer repair parts, you’ll be able to make a pure EV pickup truck as well. This will also have the added benefit of not having any spyware installed.

I have an old square body truck on the farm that I would love to convert to EV.

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I vaguely remember a time when it felt like all these small companies were supposedly working in vehicle conversion kits and I was excited about all the cars that could get saved and brought into the next century, but I feel they were all vaporware since I’ve never heard of one actually existing in real life.

It was one of the few moments where I actually felt close to being alive in the future that was promised to me as a child. Maybe someday…

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man I just want to convert my element. give me 120 mile range and I’m good, I only use it for hauling wood and moving shit around anyway.

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The profile of the production gen 1 titan is very similar, but the body kit they had on the alpha t was just so sweet.

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The article I looked at had a few side by side images, and while it does share a decently similar silhouette, the feeling I’d get seeing those 2 vehicles on the lot or the street would be so different between the pair. I get that underneath it’s likely the same exact truck, but I’d see different types of people wanting one or the other and I wouldn’t expect both to be coming from the same manufacturer.

Again, I’m not a truck person, but while I like those last generation of trucks before pickups had to go all aggro, the production model is dated now while the concept looks like they could successfully unveil it this year. It looks bold, but in a sci fi way moreso than in a Texas truck bro kind of way. Like someone could be hauling a suit of Fallout power armor in the back of it or be conducting some post apocalyptic research in the wasteland to save humanity.

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