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Atlis XT Electric Pickup Truck Revealed: 500-Mile Range, Tows 35,000 Pounds
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Might there be a competitor for the Rivian R1T electric pickup truck?
Atlis Motor Vehicle company is a new-ish name on the scene, but it’s soon to break out after this news.
Atlis says its XT electric pickup truck is among the most capable trucks to ever be revealed. According to the automaker, the truck can be configured to go up to 500 miles on electric by selecting the largest battery pack.
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In addition to the long range, the towing capacity is impressive at up to 35,000 pounds. The payload is listed at up to 5,000 pounds, which is equally high.
Atlis XT is considered a full-size truck and, unlike with the Rivian R1T, a 6.5 or 8-foot bed can be selected. Clearly then, this is a larger truck than Rivian’s. It’s 8-lug wheel design suggests its a heavy-hauler too.
Configurations & Options
With this being a proper truck, there are all sorts of configurations. For example, depending on how its configured, the Atlis XT has a conventional towing ability between 5,000 – 20,000 lbs. The truck has a 5th-wheel trailering capacity of between 10,000 – 35,000 lbs. Payload capacities would range between 1,000 – 5,000 lbs.
There’s a standard crew cab with a shorter bed that offers standard air suspension (independent at all four corners) with 12 inches of ground clearance. But for more extreme use, there’s a special “off-road” version with long travel suspension and 15 inches of clearance.
A dually is reportedly planned too and this would be the heaviest hauler of them all.
Like with Rivian, multiple battery pack sizes will be offered. Atlis says the shortest range XT will still go 300 miles. Other options are for 400 miles of range and the aforementioned 500-mil max range version. Recharging is claimed to take only 15 minutes, though specs and details on this have not been released.
As for performance, 0 to 60 MPH is achieved in 5 seconds. However, even a fully loaded Atlis XT can still accelerate from 0 to 60 MPH in just 18 seconds. Atlis uses what it calls its XP platform on the XT. This setup utilizes 4-independent electric motors, one for each well. So, it’s 4WD then.
The interior is rather luxurious looking and can set up to 6 individuals in total.
Ordering & Additional Info
Though far from reality right now (funding is still not fully secured), Atlis says it hopes to launch the XT sometime in 2020. No pricing information is available at this time though.
Reserve your Atlis XT electric pickup truck here
Check out images, video and the press blast from Atlis below:
Atlis XT
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EVERYTHING A PICKUP TRUCK SHOULD BE
The XT Pickup is everything you expect in a truck: it’s rugged, it’s durable, it can perform in the most extreme conditions. It’s also designed to maximize passenger comfort, storage and usability. Meet the 100% electric Atlis XT.
STANDARD FEATURES
ASSEMBLED IN THE USA
4-WHEEL DRIVE WITH INDEPENDENT TRACTION MOTORS AT EACH WHEEL
4-WHEEL INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION
ALL VEHICLES COME WITH A SINGLE SPEED GEAR BOX PER AXLE
MASSIVE FRONT-TRUNK STORAGE
ADVANCED REGENERATIVE BRAKING WITH DYNAMIC LOAD CONTROL
SPRAY-IN BEDLINER
We’re on a mission to revolutionize the way we configure and purchase pickup trucks. Say goodbye to packages and classes. When you purchase your XT Pickup Truck, choose the vehicle features and capabilities that meet your needs.
CHARGING + BATTERY
RANGEA quick charging vehicle for those that have busy schedules and need to keep going with minimal downtime. For the best performance charge your vehicle at an Atlis Motor Vehicles Advanced Charging station. It takes just 15 minutes. Or choose to connect to another charging station of your choice.
Choose your driving range: 300 miles, 400 miles, or 500 miles. All ranges are based on an unloaded truck, with no cargo or trailer weights
CHOOSE FROM:
300
MILE RANGE400
MILE RANGE500
MILE RANGEPERFORMANCE. AMPLIFIED.
We use a unique air sprung suspension design with dynamic damping capabilities that adjusts to the vehicle load. This allows us to deliver a consistent and comfortable experience, every time. Final capabilities and options will vary. We are designing for a vehicle capable of towing up to 35,000 lb GCWR, up a 6% grade while maintaining 65mph (dually version).
Single rear wheel (SRW) and Dual rear wheel (DRW or dually) options available.
120 MPH
TOP SPEED5 Sec
0-60 MPH18 Sec
0-60 MPH AT MAX GCWRTRAILER HITCH TOWING CAPABILITIES (lbs):
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000FIFTH WHEEL AND GOOSENECK TOWING CAPABILITIES (lbs GCWR):
10,000
25,000
15,000
30,000
20,000
35,000PAYLOAD CAPABILITIES (lbs)
1,000
2,000
3,500
5,000ADVANCED TRACTION CONTROL
Enjoy the best traction control on the market. The XT Pickup independently controls power delivery and braking to each wheel, leveraging four independent drive motors with direct drive to each wheel.
AVAILABLE SUSPENSION OPTIONS
With air springs and an independent rear suspension, the Atlis Motor Vehicles ensures that heavy loads are properly leveled, while providing the utmost in ride comfort.
Standard: Air spring with dynamic load damping and 12-inches of ground clearance
Optional: Off-road long travel suspension with 15-inches of ground clearance
* Off-road long travel suspension unavailable with higher towing and payload optionsFRONT CARGO
The XT Pickup offers the largest usable front-trunk storage area ever. It’s capable of handling two large suitcases, your groceries, tool boxes, and beyond. With air springs and independent front suspension, the XT Pickup lowers for easy loading and unloading, while remaining level when in motion.
SAY GOODBYE TO SIDE MIRRORS
With side cameras replacing the conventional wing mirrors, the Atlis XT has superior viewing angles allowing you to stay in total control of your surroundings.
With screens either side of your steering wheel, the screens are large and provide a high quality video feed.
STANDARD DRIVING ASSISTANCE CAMERAS
Side-view mirror driver assistance
Backup camera with corner peakTrailer hookup assist camera
Fifth wheel and gooseneck hookup assist camera
Forward-facing camera for parking assist
ADVANCING TO AUTONOMOUS
We’ll provide ongoing updates to our autonomous vehicle capabilities until we have reached Level 5 autonomous vehicle capabilities.
Standard: Level 1 driver assistance with adaptive cruise control.
Optional: Advanced adaptive cruise as well as parking and lane keeping assistance.
Future: Advanced autonomous capabilities
TOTAL CONTROL
A center-mounted digital touch screen will serve as the hub for vehicle settings, heating and cooling, and infotainment with Apple Carplay and Android Auto. Use its physical rotary knob to make fast commands and quickly change settings.
The dash instrumentation will be a multi-split digital touch screen displaying all live vehicle information, including live video feeds from the standard driver assistance cameras.
The unique UI behind the wheel ensures the user is in complete control and allows for various customization. This creates a personal connection as you will be able to create an aesthetic you want.
SEATING & INTERIOR OPTIONS
Front : 40/20/40 split bench seat
Rear: 40/20/40 split bench seat with 60/40 fold
Standard cloth seats with optional leather packages
Standard vinyl interior with the option to upgrade to carpet.
UNDERSTATED BEAUTY
OPTIONS TO MAKE IT YOURS
AN ELECTRIC PICKUP TRUCK SHOULDN’T REQUIRE COMPROMISE
Own the next generation of pickup trucks. The 100% electric Atlis Motor Vehicles XT.
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68 Comments on "Atlis XT Electric Pickup Truck Revealed: 500-Mile Range, Tows 35,000 Pounds"
A solid electric truck will be a game changer for EV’s in the USA. Nothing will spur mass adoptation of EV’s more violently.
Yeah, I just got done going through their site.
I really think that what they are posting is exactly what the truck market needs, and I love their XP platform.
BUT, everything on this reminds me of faraday or lucid and maybe less.
I am guessing that they are not for real.
If they are, they really need to approach some rich Americans and get them to buy into this.
Heck, they could easily take over the GM Ohio plant and start building VERY quickly.
Good investigation
The webpage doesn’t look like something someone’s nephew threw together over the weekend to me. Far from it.
Doesn’t mean this is for real, I wonder if the pictures are of a prototype vehicle or just CGI. The only thing we can be really sure about is that this won’t be available in 2020.
They announced the 75T BEV concept a year ago and they are out of Mesa, AZ. They employ: Mark Hanchett, Amber Olson, Greg Hassler, and Ross Compton.
Having worked in tech startups for 40 years I can say that this isn’t unusual. Quite often some collection of folks from various companies will work together on a startup but keep their identities private until they are ready to leave their current employer which is often not until they have go-ahead funding.
There is nothing that I have seen that gives any indication of future failure (or success) of Atlis.
If this truck actually gets produced in any real numbers, it’s a go for me…..
Also, I am interested in knowing how large the battery is, and what the range will be like when it’s fully loaded(I am sure a truck this size will have at least a 250kWh battery for 500 mile range, and I am quite sure the range won’t be 500 miles if it’s towing a 35,000lb gooseneck)
Of course the range is without towing anything. Just like gas mileage in your truck is specified without a trailer.
This is what I think is really needed. A real truck for truck lovers. It looks like a real truck, not an emoji like the Rivian does. Sadly no prices, so likely way beyond what most real truck lovers would be willing to spend and without funding, this very well may remain CG vaporware like it is now. Love the nose gate idea though! Vivian totally missed this opportunity. On the other hand, Rivian’s interior design is way, way nicer.
If this gets out: Ford is D-E-A-D.
Ford seriously needs to bring it.
Depends on the price. I suspect it will be quite high. but it is nice to see a real work truck instead of just high end luxury for show truck.
This is definitely going to be expensive, at least initially, but $80K trucks are not such a rarity on the roads. The likes of Rivian, Atlas, Bollinger etc. may be able to ride Tesla’s coattails, starting market penetration from the high end.
How much?
If it were to be a reality, the answer would be- all of it. Bentley prices, or higher, but since it’s still vaporware and deposit bait, I’d guess- “Starting around $60,000”.
Just the fact that these other companies (Rivian, Altis) are showing their *potential* trucks is putting huge pressure on Ram, Ford, GM because a consumer bar is being set – whether or not these two companies deliver. Same as like Elon showing off the semi & roadster 2.0 early – it raises the bar for future plans by the big 3!! LOVE IT!!! I hope Rivian and Altis can succeed. I like the look of the Altis better than the Rivian right now.
Altis is a nobody. Look at thier career page
I have not seen any plans from Ford or GM making ev trucks
That doesn’t mean much. If they have such plans, they surely aren’t showing them, since they need to avoid the Osborne Effect…
def more vaporware than rivian, but if they push rivian to share more info, still a good thing.
I know, right? LOLOL.
Yeah – at least Rivian has 1 of each of their models…..er…..TWO total!
Rivian also has an auto assembly plant. That puts them one up on all the EV startups except Tesla… which isn’t really a startup anymore.
I fully expect Rivian to start making and selling their trucks within a couple of years. Most of the rest of the EV startups in N. America and Europe… I wouldn’t take any bets about them actually entering production. (Karma excluded; they are selling the Revero… altho reportedly not many of them.)
Having a plant doesn’t mean much, until it’s actually fully equipped to start production. SF Motors has a plant. Lucid has a plant IIRC. Even Faraday Future has a plant…
Suddenly everyone with a CAD package and a render program (and not much else) is “unveiling” an electric car or truck.
Reminds me of certain wannabe PC makers in the early 80’s. Put up a photo in a magazine and hope you get enough pre-orders to actually build one.
Exactly correct, and this is not only looking for pre-orders but actually an attempt to raise money ala Kickstarter, using startengine.com to try to raise money to build a prototype. Not that I’m opposed to crowdfunding but breaking into the auto market is a big dollar venture that needs more than a some renders of a prototype truck.
They’re not taking money for pre-orders, and the crowdfunding isn’t like kickstarter at all, it’s buying shares in the company. All products start with CAD design, a lot of it, not following why people think doing CAD work is a bad thing. Automobiles have enormous amounts of engineering in them.
Keep in mind those images, as pretty and realistic as they look, are not pictures of an actual prototype but just computer generated graphics. As far as I can tell these people appear to be several years behind Rivian in their ability to deliver any production vehicles. But I wish them well and I hope they can raise enough money for that first full scale prototype.
“Funding has not been secured.” Hmmm, where’d that truck in the photo come from then? Or is it a photo? “Recharge in 15 minutes.” With what, direct connection to a power station? Got to be at least twice the battery size of a Tesla S. Nothing available now to charge it at that rate. “10 year warranty” (stated on their website). They are going to supply servicing. Sounds to me like someone looked at what Tesla has done, combined that with what people dream of in an electric pickup, extended it even further, and said this is what we are going to do, without having done anything. Let me know when they have a factory turning out at least a few thousand per year.
Exactly. I can do rendering of ev truck and make a website and wait for the preorders to come in.
They are talking about dedicated charging stations to get the full rate… (It’s certainly not possible with standard CCS stations.)
Of course, given the early startup status, we have to take all their claims with a whole lot of salt.
This is cool, but they are a long, long way from production. If an OEM was smart, they would swoop up them or Rivian, maybe through their venture arm.
Anyone else see that recent article how GM makes $17k profit on each Silverado? Getting ahold of tech like this (or Rivian’s) would be a good hedge on continued future profits, since the OEMs can’t or won’t do this themselves.
Swoop them up because they rendered some images of a truck? They have no “tech” or anything else, including money to build a prototype.
At least they have a good 3D artist… 😉
What „tech“?
AFAIK they hove nothing. Nothing.
Total vaporware. Its telling people what they want to hear then asking for money. 15 minute charge on a large battery just isnt feasible.
4C cells can charge in 15 minutes no matter how many you put in a pack.
Nobody is deploying 1 MW chargers, though.
Atlis’ FAQ talks about 1.5 MW.
Does anybody make an EV automobile which charges at 4C on a daily basis, with a battery pack which will last for 8+ years?
I’m willing to be told I’m wrong, but this doesn’t seem realistic to me. Atlis is talking like they have figured out the magic formula for doing that, but when asked how, they just say “It’s not really that difficult”. I don’t find that convincing at all. That reads like they figured out something that looks good on paper, but haven’t tested it.
Not sure about 4C — but the Spark EV was not too far from that; and the Ioniq isn’t that far either… And that’s with air cooling. Porsche is also claiming a similar rate. Indeed it’s a pretty normal charge rate for PHEV cells. I totally agree with the claim that it’s not that difficult…
The trade-off is of course in energy density. (And thus driving dynamics, efficiency, and price.)
Now that is a truck! 6’ bed or bigger is mandatory. Hope this gets made. First to market with a “truck” gets my business.
This would be simple for Ford to build as well. One truck the size of an F150 the next the size of an F350. Done. They have these skateboard packs and all of the independent wheel motors they can pu into their current trucks. Not too defficult for Ford if they are interested. Which we have yet to see.
April 1st came early this year.
$45k for 300 mile range in a large vehicle? Yeah right.
Perhaps 45k doesn’t include the battery at all – then it seems doable, doesn’t it?
By the time this could realistically get to market (which surely isn’t 2020…), that price point should actually be perfectly plausible…
First off, why does it say ‘assembled in USA’????
Secondly, if this truck is for real, when it hits the market, it will do a LOT of damage to ICE trucks.
This one is not made for rich goat ropers. This is made for ppl that need to work.
What to go Atlis.
Somebody who actually uses a pickup truck needs to talk to their PR people. Neither Rivian nor Atlis mention bed dimensions. Most truck buyers need to know bed length, width, sidewall height, if it has a flat floor, etc. For most of us, a pickup truck that can’t haul a 4′ x 8′ sheet of plywood is useless. Realizing that these will probably never haul materials to a job site, how about whether or not it will hold a four-wheeler, motorcycle, surfboard, etc..
They mention bed dimensions on the website, 6.5ft long and can hold a 4×8 sheet of plywood flat. 8′ bed available. Beds are pretty standard in height, nobody looks at that dimension.
Also Rivian mentions dimensions too, they’re bed is only like 4.5ft, which is shorter than the one on a Subaru Brat.
I see more & more of these fake ‘reveals’ popping up every other day at InsideEV & I think InsideEV is using their CADs to generate this utter nonsense to keep us reading their EV garbage ad nauseam. STOP IT ALREADY!!!! Just give us the FACTS…ma’m!!
Inside EVs didn’t make this web site: http://www.atlismotorvehicles.com/xt-truck
Oh yeah I remember this truck: the one that can recharge 500 miles in 10 seconds.
They supposedly were looking for help with their 1000 kw or 1500 kw charging station.
It doesn’t matter what you remember. Ferries already charge at 1.2MW their 400kwh, 500kwh, 900kwh battery packs, and they couldn’t care less.
Agree
Vaporware
They have absolutely nothing.
They want money.
They just tell people what they want to hear.
This is a scam.
Rivian is starting to look a whole lot better now..
This can be the truck that can sell in fleets in large number then Robison outsy truck
Post and comments from its website is reminding all of us of faraway futures
I’m looking forward to seeing a working prototype.
Ford can just Fund this and add it to thier lineup
“Recharging is claimed to take only 15 minutes, though specs and details on this have not been released.”
This has me highly skeptical. They have doubled down on their claim of a 15 minute charge for the main battery pack, and they claim daily charging at that rate won’t reduce its lifespan.
I see from previous comments that there are other reasons to think this may be another “All hat and no cattle” startup.
Well, we will see. Here’s hoping Atlis proves our doubts to be unfounded. If they can actually produce such a fast-charging truck at a competitive price, then more power to them — literally! 🙂
I’d be more impressed if this wasn’t actually an alt-Kickstarter campaign as opposed to a real company with at least some funding already.
Who is supplying the batteries for these large battery packs? Has an order been placed to secure enough of a supply, to get meaningful production, of some test mules for truck validation?
The photo’s don’t look real to me. Teflon tires, nothing sticks? Did they clean the tires before every photo shot?
NPNS! SBF!
Volt#671 + BoltEV + Model 3
Atlis have been posting images and invitations to invest all over FB for the past year, always feels like a to good to be true story phishing for your money.
Would love them to be a genuine company (like Bollinger or Rivian) but until a reporter gets invited to see their work, I’ll not be expecting anything to appear.
I remember a small car company that was looking for reservations just in the past couple of years. They were a three wheel company and claimed their little cars could get 85 mpg. Well? Where are they now? I don’t trust start ups until they’re actually selling something. Never ‘reserve’ from these companies. A fool and their money are soon parted. And no, I didn’t reserve one of those cars either.
Reserve yours today, just like Elio and their $7000 80MPG car that no one will ever see. I’m done laying down deposits on a promise. If this ever hits the market and it’s not ridiculously expensive, I’ll buy one. It’s beautiful and pushes all the right emotional buttons. Beware of the vapor vehicle. Tesla is one of the few that actually have delivered, albeit with painful delays.