For electric pickups, there’s no home on the Canadian range

Alberta Ford dealer Kurtis Hicks says few customers ask about electric cars, let alone trucks. “It’s going to take a lot more convincing with the buyers of F-150 trucks,” he says. (Contributed by Kurtis Hicks)

July 08, 2019 04:00 AM

In Alberta’s farm country, they like their meat red, their roads dusty and their trucks powered by internal combustion. Don’t talk to them about electric trucks just yet.

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