It’s Electric

In the spring of 2023, when Tommy Murray returned to Taos Ski Valley, N.M., after a 40-hour round-trip drive to Idaho to pick up nine electric snowmobiles made by Canada’s Taiga Motors, he was skeptical. The machines appeared to be bulky and heavy, and he questioned their ability to make it up Taos’s steep terrain. But when he hopped on one to take it for a spin, his worries immediately dissolved.

“The moment I hit the throttle with my thumb, I had the biggest grin on my face,” Murray recounts. “There was so much power instantly. It was the most incredible experience I’ve ever had on a snowmobile.”