As we’ve seen with the GMC Hummer EV SUT, the Rivian R1T and the soon-to-be-arriving Ford F-150 Lightning, performance isn’t an issue with electric pickup trucks. Charging them, however, is certainly annoying — and can limit their utility, especially if you’re going places where chargers are sparse. That said, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus — about the last automaker you’d expect — may have an exciting solution for this.
SCG, known chiefly for building limited edition, track-oriented hypercars, is building a hydrogen fuel cell-powered Boot pickup for off-road racing in the Baja 1000 (and eventual civilian use). Now, the company has just announced that they will be using swappable liquid hydrogen fuel tanks to power their beast.
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The system will work easily and instantly, just like swapping out a propane tank on a gas grill. The vision is, the company would have these tanks available 24/7/365 worldwide — and the truck wouldn’t need them too often, as Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus expects the truck to offer a range of between 600 and 1,000 miles. So, the Boot would have super long range, would take about as long as a combustion engine to refuel and wouldn’t have to lug around nearly a ton of lithium-ion batteries. That would, in turn, give it more capacity to tow and haul things.
Sounds great, right? Well, a production Boot — not to mention the infrastructure required to support it — may take a while to happen. SCG is still working on a prototype of the truck based on a gutted version of the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD. A Boot you can buy may be a far-off prospect for the future…and when it does arrive, the target starting price will be $100,000.