{"id":361,"date":"2009-04-09T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-04-09T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T11:01:33","slug":"boshart-evs-prototype-tersus-electric-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/boshart-evs-prototype-tersus-electric-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Boshart EV&#8217;s Prototype Tersus Electric Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_362\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-362\" title=\"tersus\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tersus.gif?w=300\" alt=\"Boshart Tersus\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tersus.gif 350w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tersus-300x180.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boshart Tersus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Boshart Tersus is an electric powered general utility truck that can carry up to four people and is designed for closed campus and private property environments.  What I find interesting about the Tersus is that it looks more like a typical gas powered truck.<\/p>\n<p>The truck has a top speed of 25 mph and a payload capacity of 1,000 lbs.  It uses a 72 volt system that powers a 28Kw AC motor and can be charged to 80% in one hour using a fast charger.  A standard charger will recharge the AGM battery pack in six hours.  I contacted the company and they told me that the vehicle is not available yet and didn&#8217;t provide a timetable or estimated price.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also planning a heavy duty electric utility truck for 2010 that will have a payload of 3,000 lbs.     <a title=\"Boshartev Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boshartev.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:  boshartev.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I received some more information from the company.?? the vehicle can be purchased directly from Boshart Engineering and costs from $20,000 to $26,000 depending on options.?? The vehicles has 220 ah capacity AGM battery pack and operates on a 72 volt system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boshart Tersus is an electric powered general utility truck that can carry up to four people and is designed for closed campus and private property environments. What I find interesting about the Tersus is that it looks more like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/boshart-evs-prototype-tersus-electric-truck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,27],"tags":[199,422,772,1293,1375],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-new-vehicle","category-utility-vehicles","tag-boshart","tag-electric-truck","tag-lsv","tag-tersus","tag-utility-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}