General Motors is investigating small EV “party” trucks
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General Motors provided flights from San Francisco to Detroit and back, plus a night in a hotel, so we could visit the GM design center. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.
After years of insisting that truck buyers are demanding larger and larger vehicles, automakers have seen the light and understand that many people want smaller, more efficient pickups. Maybe.
Hot on the heels of the explosive sales of the Ford Maverick and the relatively good sales of the Hyundai Santa Cruz, GM seems to have caught small trucks with efficient powertrains" fever. Well, at least the designers have come down with that rare-and hopefully incurable-condition.
During a tour of GM's design center in Warren, Michigan, the automaker gave Ars Technica a peek into its thoughts about future EVs.