An announcement from Toyota on Monday about the future of electrification at the company has us thinking – will the next Tacoma and Tundra have electric-hybrid powertrains?

On Monday, Toyota set out a few product plans for the future. Buried in the news was the statement that the company plans to have an electrified version of every model in the Toyota and Lexus lineups by 2025. Reading between the lines, this announcement would seemingly encompass their SUVs and pickups, too.

This detail perks up our truck-loving ears. Sure, “electrified” can simply mean a mild hybrid system and not a full-on plug-in electric-hybrid drivetrain but it sure seems like the next generation Tundra will be a lot greener than the existing model.

We highly doubt that customers will be able to walk in to a Toyota showroom eight years from now and purchase an all-electric Tundra in the visage of the Bollinger B1. However, it is not a stretch to imagine that, by 2025, both the mid-sized Tacoma and its full-sized brother will have some sort of mild hybrid system as part of their powertrain.

They wouldn’t be the first half-ton trucks with a hybrid system under their hoods to ply our nation’s roads. Readers with sharp memories will recall GM’s effort in 2009, when the company introduced a two-mode hybrid setup on the Silverado and Sierra (and related SUVs). The system was actually a joint development between four companies – GM, Chrysler, BMW, and Daimler.

In that effort, the truck transmission resembled a conventional four-speed automatic. To that unit, engineers integrated a pair of 80 horsepower electric motors by marrying them to the transmission’s trio of planetary gearsets. Under gentle acceleration, one could actually run solely on the electric motors up to about 30 mph without lighting a fire in the standard 6.0-liter V8 gasoline engine.

Naturally, they sold at the rate of glacial progression, prompting the company to deep-six the program after a relatively short life. GM’s embarrassing sojourn through bankruptcy didn’t help either.

Email inquiries made on Tuesday to Toyota on this subject remain unanswered. Whatever form the electrification may take, there’s an increasingly good chance the Tacoma and Tundra will eventually use electrons as a form of propulsion.