I mean, I know you don't bring the ‘work truck’ design to the auto show, but rationalize the interior, throw out the self driving systems, put in manual ‘frunk’ and tailgate, and aim for a much lower MSRP, and you could base a pretty good production line JUST selling them to fleet operations.
Plus I know a lot of rural post drivers who'd kill for a good right hand drive vehicle.
One of the ironies of longer range is, the charging time gets longer. If I had the money, I'd get the Tesla Model 3 with the package that has unlimited supercharging, because there's a supercharger at 28th St and I-96 (in Kentwood, just east of Grand Rapids) which is only a ten or twelve mile round trip from my workplace (and I have to drive home anyway), meaning I'd have what I consider an expensive vehicle but no or very little "fuel" bill for it, and do my weekly shopping right across the parking lot, at Meijer.
Mercedes has a hydrogen vehicle coming (two 4-liter carbon fiber tanks; 50 mile battery backup) and the fillup time is similar to gasoline (2 to 4 minutes) -- but there's no infrastructure for the hydrogen. Obviously, if the water "exhaust" were stored and traded in at the filling stations, since DC power is ideal for electrolysis, all the hydrogen could be made in situ without a big electric bill for the vendor. If the filling process is really simple, and the risk of death and dismemberment nil, I could see how hydrogen vehicles could prevail for any kind of distance driving.
EVs are ideally suited for most driving (being within 25 miles of home), and there's little barrier to just keeping the "tank" topped off with household electrical power. But having to budget 30-40 minutes (or more) every few hours during a trip is not going to fly, IMHO.
But I agree, these trucks look great, and typically a pickup is a work vehicle for people who are home at night (again, 25 miles from home), and SUVs are soccer-mom vehicles.
since DC power is ideal for electrolysis, all the hydrogen could be made in situ
Whoops, forgot to include "with photovoltaic arrays on the roof of the building,".. .