Cummins and Isuzu to collaborate on prototype electric truck

Cummins, the company known best for its diesel engines, just announced a partnership with Isuzu to “create a prototype medium-duty, battery electric truck” for North America.

Exploration of electric powertrains isn’t totally new for Cummins, as it’s talked about a transition to electric since 2017. In fact, Cummins even revealed a battery-powered truck back then, too. This electric truck with Isuzu is new, though, and it’s going to put the Cummins PowerDrive6000 powertrain into Isuzu’s F-Series truck that you can see in the photo above.

Cummins does not detail specs for its PowerDrive6000, but we’ve seen the drive unit used in a hybrid concept from Cummins previously. It provided 50 miles of electric range when the battery pack in that truck was full, but with this being a full battery electric vehicle, we suspect that Cummins and Isuzu are using a much larger battery pack for more range. We don’t have any vital specs like range or power, but we suspect those will come at a later date.