{"id":133081,"date":"2021-12-26T02:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fantastical-thundertruck-ev-rocks-fold-out-solar-awnings-and-a-snap-on-6wd-caboose"},"modified":"2021-12-26T02:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T10:23:24","slug":"fantastical-thundertruck-ev-rocks-fold-out-solar-awnings-and-a-snap-on-6wd-caboose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fantastical-thundertruck-ev-rocks-fold-out-solar-awnings-and-a-snap-on-6wd-caboose","title":{"rendered":"Fantastical Thundertruck EV rocks fold-out solar awnings and a snap-on 6WD caboose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fantastical-thundertruck-ev-rocks-fold-out-solar-awnings-and-a-snap-on-6wd-caboose2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This all-electric 4\u00d74 off-road concept has a monster battery pack, a brutally angular and military look that borrows heavily from the Cybertruck, and pop-out solar panels for off-grid charging. Oh, and if you need extra range, you can snap two extra wheels and a battery onto the back of it with a self-balancing caboose that makes it a six-wheel-drive.<\/p>\n<p>First things first: Thundertruck is the brainchild of a Los Angeles \u201ccreative consultancy,\u201d conceived mainly as a way to keep the team busy during the first wave of COVID lockdowns. \u201cInstead of baking bread or making puzzles,\u201d says the Wolfgang L.A. team, \u201cwe decided to make a new state-of-the-art EV truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So while Wolfgang says it \u201chas the ability to support an entire product development program, from research and strategy to initial sketches and first prototypes, all the way to advertising launch campaigns and content creation,\u201d it\u2019s fair to say it\u2019s unlikely we\u2019ll be seeing the Thundertruck out bush-bashing or crushing hillclimbs any day soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This all-electric 4\u00d74 off-road concept has a monster battery pack, a brutally angular and military look that borrows heavily from the Cybertruck, and pop-out solar panels for off-grid charging. Oh, and if you need extra range, you can snap two extra wheels and a battery onto the back of it with a self-balancing caboose that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}