VAIL, Colorado ” “That’s a nice cat you got there,” said a skier on his way past Mid-Vail Wednesday afternoon. “It’s definitely a conversation piece,” said Mark Delpiere of his 1963 Tucker Sno-Cat.

Taos Ski Valley Resort in New Mexico wrote in an e-newsletter today that it has deployed the “first, fully electric snowcat in North America.” For those unfamiliar, a snowcat is a snow groomer that ...