Electric Pickup Truck With Swappable Batteries: Meet The Toyota EVE ++ It’s a 4Runner with a Nissan Leaf motor and battery modules.
Kyle Seggelin loves rock crawling. For a long time, he had been doing so before his 1989 Toyota 4Runner’s engine overheated at the beginning of 2021. That was the right time for him to make an electric pickup truck for rock crawling and compete at the 2021 “
King Of The Hammers’” new EV-only category. Seggelin ingeniously made that: with swappable battery modules.
The competition was just an additional push toward a plan Seggelin had for a long time.
“Rock crawling specifically is also well suited to electric drive, where low-end torque is desired over sustained high output. You can have fun all day in a rock crawler and never go farther than a 5-mile radius from camp or go over 20 mph.”