pThe Toyota Electric PickUp, or EPU, concept — with its deep bed and innovative design — was revealed with little fanfare at the Japan Mobility Show as it awaits approval in Japan./p
TOKYO — Toyota engineers and designers for the last three years have been secretly working on a compact pickup that would directly take on the popular Ford Maverick but do so as an electric vehicle that won't detract from the brand's franchise pickup, the Toyota Tacoma.
The concept features an all-wheel-drive powertrain and large-but-undisclosed battery pack and is built with a monocoque body. Like the Maverick, it is just over 16.5 feet — or five metres — in overall length but is about three inches wider and about an inch shorter than the potential competitor from Ford. As an EV with the wheels at the corners, the EPU concept's wheelbase is a full 10 inches longer than that of the Maverick, which has gasoline and hybrid powertrains.
"We want to make this not look like a toy, to have it look like a robust product. It's capable," Hunter told Automotive News on the Toyota stage here as he showed off the design features of the EPU."We built this model as an in-house design study, and then liked it enough that they wanted to put it in the Tokyo show."
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