I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)

Post by prmoustache » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 8:18 AM UTC

hotpotamus wrote: post #3

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #2

Honestly, I think $7,000 delivered for this is a pretty good price. It would make a nice farm vehicle, especially with that dump bed. It's in the same price range as a lower end UTV and looks like it would be far more comfortable doing, e.g., snow clearing duty. Swap in a set of BFG Mud Terrain tires and you're all set. Some feedback on reliability, the rust issues, etc. would be nice but I'd seriously think about ge…

https://insideevs.com/news/502536/wuling-hongguang-mini-ev-c... That's the actual car I think I want most in the world. It's so cheap and fun, and possibly even practical for me, but I don't think there's any way I could drive it in my city sadly.

Post by cjrp » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 8:51 AM UTC

davidbanham wrote: post #95

hotpotamus wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that, but how would I do in crash with an SUV if I were on a motorcycle and are those street legal?

A motorcycle has obvious dangers. An unsafe car has non-obvious dangers. A lot of government regulation is about preventing non-obvious dangers or trying to make them obvious.

Post by scatters » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 9:00 AM UTC

davidbanham wrote: post #118

dylan604 wrote: post #113

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How would a car a small fraction of another car have non-obvious dangers in one-on-one collisions? If you think that a smaller mass object vs a much larger mass object is not going to do lots of damage to the smaller mass object, then a basic understanding of physics seems to be lacking. Then, tack on how much faster the larger mass object can be moving in comparison to the lower mass object, and tell me what's so no…

You seem quite worked up, and seem to be having a discussion about how a motorcycle would perform in a collision with a large car versus a small car colliding with a large car. To be clear, that's not what I'm talking about here. I was picking up on the parent post's question about why a motorcycle should be road legal, and this thing not, when the collision danger was probably equivalent or higher. I'm not saying th…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 9:13 AM UTC

megablast wrote: post #125

It’s insane people buy stuff like this just for moving a few things around the farm. What a waste.

Post by matsemann » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 10:42 AM UTC

Root_Denied wrote: post #97

dengsauve wrote: post #51

Pretty hilarious how negative the original article comments are, and it turned out after a year of use the author has nothing but positive things to say: https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h... I think there's a large education gap surround EVs that needs to be filled. Hopefully more articles and experiments like this continue to appear. If you have an EV, consider spreading the word - good an…

In this case I think the positive reactions a year later are more a result of having a good use case for the NEV/LSV rather than the truck being a good buy for the general public. There's also arguably limited use cases like the article brings up (off road, not street legal, lots of land) - or at least "limited" in comparison with the average / mean vehicle that gets purchased by consumers. Great that it has a use ca…