(CNN Business) Even before Tesla revealed the Cybertruck last November, other companies — both brand-new start ups and long-established automakers — had already announced plans for electric pickup trucks of their own.

Most of these planned trucks are far less insane-looking than Tesla's $40,000 ultra-prismatic Cybertruck with its supposedly bulletproof windows and dent-proof body. Still, they boast of amazing-sounding capabilities that, in many cases, far outmatch even heavy duty gasoline and diesel trucks.

for a truck that's still very much in development. Ford still hasn't said when it will go on sale. Ford, for example, released a video last summer of a battery-powered F-150 prototype towing — at low speed and for a relatively short distance — 1.25 million pounds of freight train cars filled with other F-150s . Even Ford admitted the truck was "towing far beyond any production truck's published capacity," but it was still an astounding display of strengthfor a truck that's still very much in development. Ford still hasn't said when it will go on sale.

The Tesla Cybertruck is built from the same steel Elon Musk's SpaceX uses for rockets.

price yet, except to indicate it will be a "niche" vehicle intended to be sold in low numbers. It's expected to go on sale in 2022. More recently, General Motors announced that its GMC Hummer EV electric pickup will offer up to 11,500 pound-feet of torque, a measure of pulling power. That compares to less than a thousand pound-feet produced by GM's own diesel-powered heavy duty pickups. GM hasn't said anything about the GMC Hummer'sprice yet, except to indicate it will be a "niche" vehicle intended to be sold in low numbers.It's expected to go on sale in 2022.

"The big question is, when you actually start to use those trucks as they're intended to be used, how much is that going to degrade the range in the truck?" said Sam Abuelsamid, a transportation analyst with Navigant Research. Even gasoline and diesel trucks go far fewer miles on a tank of fuel when towing heavy loads, for instance.

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