It will be 3-5 years, but this is what I would enjoy: carries a 4x8 ft sheet of plywood 2-5 seats ~250-325 mi range Mini Cooper wheel base NACS charging port Built-in 2" receiver My Model 3 will reach End Of Life then as any future replacement battery would be "unobtainum." Open Source AutoPilot has reached a usable state. Right size for an old guy. The only problem, the front tires will throw up a lot of road dirt in the rain. I suspect the production ones will have a proper cover for the front wheels. Now if they could just put a proper MicroBus body on it. Bob Wilson
+1 on microbus. Am fascinated with the VW ID Buzz .... now if they would only reduce the price by $30,000!
It's a start-up, with a $50K target price. I don't know; a 4x8 piece of plywood in the same length of a mini - the rear seats would need to come down and hopefully you don't get rear ended carrying that load. That 10 inch ground clearance on those mini tires are interesting and don't know how they're going to compensate for the high center of gravity around tight turns. Part of the reason the mini chassis is so low to the ground with that short wheel base. Just spit-balling here... TELO Trucks | The All-Electric Mini Truck
Yes with some pretty heavy hitters on the board of directors. I have no doubt they learned valuable lessons dealing with Mad Musk. Bob Wilson
How often do you use a pickup bed and couldn't have used a trunk? And for those few times, a used ICE truck might just do an adequate job and be far more cost effective. Just up the street is a 30 year old pickup still in use maybe once every other week. Value zero. But the price per use is the cost of taxes on it which gotta be low. I shudder to think how old those tires are. Me, I rent a truck for the few times I have needed one. Just like I rent a van. One time each in the last 15 years. An SUV fills my day to day needs. If I need a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood, I'd have it delivered. In reality, I'd give away my wood working tools.
So - is the point that everybody has different needs at different frequencies? If so, AGREED We just got back from me three or four day stay at Middle lake Thompson in our fifth wheel. Certainly difficult to do that and a sedan, or even in a ½ton pickup. Thus the ¾ton clean diesel. Hope that didn’t make anyone dirty their shorts True! Then again - last spring - our pickup did a long haul from Montana to Fort Smith Arkansas Area to Nashville area & back. One of many trips that need a HD pickup. Hate to think what a 3/4 ton pickup would rent for using it around 4,000 miles & 3 weeks. Proving once again everybody's needs are different.
We are talking about a product that might be available the end of 2026. A lot can happen between now and then. Just none of the existing too big, too heavy, EV pickups appeals to me: Mini Cooper wheel base Weight 4,400 lbs (projected) Built-in 2" receiver 6,000 lb rating (2,000 is all I need) Dual 2-5 seat configuration (widower with three dogs) NACS charging port It is right-sized for +90% of my driving around town. Yet has enough EV range to handle long distance vacations. It is at a sweet price point too, ~$40-50,000. But we're looking at pre-production prototypes and need to wait for the actual product. Bob Wilson
