{"id":199078,"date":"2018-12-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T13:00:00","slug":"forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget big V-8s and diesels: Why electric trucks will be great for towing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120622_forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Bengt Halvorson)<\/a><\/span>  Pickups in the U.S. are often sold on the bragging rights of numbers\u2014not the Olympic-sprinter acceleration times and top-speed numbers that sell performance cars, but in how high they can tip the scales in strongman-contest pulling and hauling tasks. For that, the electric pickups on the way from Tesla, Rivian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120622_forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120622_forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Forget big V-8s and diesels: Why electric trucks will be great for towing\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120622_forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickups in the U.S. are often sold on the bragging rights of numbers\u2014not the Olympic-sprinter acceleration times and top-speed numbers that sell performance cars, but in how high they can tip the scales in strongman-contest pulling and hauling tasks. For that, the electric pickups on the way from Tesla, Rivian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1120622_forget-big-v-8s-and-diesels-why-electric-trucks-will-be-great-for-towing\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}