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Electric trucks

Every electric truck on sale, ranked by tow capacity

Electric trucks are real now. All five major ones below can tow at least 10,000 lbs on paper. The catch — and it's a real one — is what happens to your range when you actually hook up a trailer.

The towing-range problem nobody talks about

Hooking up a 7,000 lb travel trailer to any of these trucks cuts range by 40–60%. A 320-mile F-150 Lightning becomes a 130–180 mile truck with a trailer. That's fine for hauling a UTV to a local trailhead — it's brutal for towing an Airstream from Atlanta to Denver.

Until the public DC fast charging network has more pull-through stalls (and Tesla's V4 Superchargers are starting to fix this), heavy long-distance towing is the one EV use case where gas/diesel still wins. If towing is occasional or local, no problem.

Powering your job site or house

Every truck on this list has bidirectional power output. The F-150 Lightning and Silverado EV can backfeed a whole house for 3+ days during an outage with the right inverter setup. Contractors are using them as mobile generators on remote job sites — that single feature is selling more trucks than the EV-curious set realizes.

Could you actually live with an electric truck?

If you tow heavy and far, probably not yet. If you tow light or local, the answer might surprise you.

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