Nomad Pro, Performance and Scout offer up to 100 km in range, with a 6.6 kW DC fast-charging system using CCS ports

Taiga Motors, the Montreal-based, all-electric powersports company, has released a new line of battery-electric snowmobiles with features that make them more useful than just backcountry transport. 

Founded in 2015, the company has been building electric snowmobiles since 2022, along with electric personal watercraft. This month, it released three new sleds for the 2027 model year: the Nomad Pro, Nomad Performance and Nomad Scout, all featuring up to 100 km of range. 

What makes this iteration of Taiga’s snowmobiles different is a new CCS-based, 6.6 kW charging system that can charge the 24 kWh battery to 80 per cent in 20 minutes with a DC fast charger. More remarkably, each sled now features vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-load (V2L) capabilities. 

Power on the go

Samuel Bruneau is the CEO of Taiga Motors and one of its founders. In an interview with Electric Autonomy, Bruneau says the bi-directional charging and onboard 120V/220V power inverter give Taiga snowmobiles real-world utility. 

“That’s three kilowatts, equivalent to a four-horsepower gas generator,” says Bruneau. “So you can plug this in, power your tools, power your house in a power outage, and kind of go anywhere … with this mobile power source.”

The V2G capability may not sound like much for such a small battery, but many of Taiga’s sales are to fleets, such as ski resorts. It’s at this scale that the V2G feature makes sense. 

‘A perfect application’

“It’s a perfect application for electric snowmobiles,” he says. “Even a small ski mountain will have 20 snowmobiles. The larger ski mountains have maybe 100… across patrols, snow making and lift operations.

“You have 100 of these machines … that are going to be connected the whole summer. That’s pretty sizeable, You’re looking at a 2.4 MWh battery bank that you can use for grid balancing for most of the year on a full-time basis. You can use them as a grid energy source, like backup battery power, and you can buy energy at off-peak hours and sell it back to the grid.”

The Nomad lineup also uses cloud-connected software, managed through an app, for features such as fleet management, geofencing and speed limiting. Regenerative braking and a thermal management system help extend battery range out on the trail. 

The Pro has a 90-hp motor, while the Scout and Performance offer 160 hp, a 33 per cent increase over the last generation. 

Cost of ownership

The Nomad Pro starts at $23,699, the Performance at $26,899 and the Scout at $27,299. Bruneau acknowledges these prices are around $5,000 more than comparable gas-powered models, but he also points out that the same cost-of-ownership savings seen with electric cars apply to snowmobiles.

“Having all these machines out in operation with over 150 different commercial operators around North America and Europe, we’ve been able to collect a lot of that data and really calculate pretty precisely cost of ownership,” says Bruneau.

“Typically, you can save up to $2,500 to $3,000 per year in operational costs versus a gas snowmobile. So you’re looking at a break-even in under two years.

“Most people use their sleds for at least five-plus years. So you’re looking at savings upwards of potentially $10,000 per vehicle across that lifetime.”

The company declared insolvency in 2024, but was purchased by UK entrepreneur Stewart Wilkinson. Since then, Taiga has rebounded to about 50 dealers globally. “We’re in kind of a big expansion phase at the moment, as we prepare for some bigger shipments of watercraft for the upcoming season here and the snowmobile next year,” says Bruneau.