I feel like this is the perfect first car for a teen or college student
Gets them from A to B. optimally 5 star crash test rating.
Cheap.
If they deliver i would absolutely buy one for when my oldest starts driving in 3 years.
A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
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#22It has a base range of 150 miles [0], which won't resolve range anxiety worries as the average American travels 42 miles a day [1] and only has 2 seats. I think it will do well for hobbyists and EV enthusiasts, but it would be hard to compete with a slightly pricier Tacoma. When people buy a pickup truck, they often use it as a daily commuter as well. > Got a road trip planned? These trips are all doable on a single…
The thing about range: it’s always reducing (as the batteries age). And then it also reduces based on factors like temperature. The anxiety is solely from the not knowing.
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#23All those photos look fake / rendered. And they didn't even bother rendering an inside shot for a car that's all about the inside design choices.
Good point. Is this article designed to feel for demand of a possible product?
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#24Hand crank windows is a weird choice, are the locks manual as well?
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#25Looks interesting. Are there any real-life non-marketing photos of it? Reminds me of Bollinger prototypes. Whatever happened to those?
They pivoted.
Re: A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
#26It has a base range of 150 miles [0], which won't resolve range anxiety worries as the average American travels 42 miles a day [1] and only has 2 seats. I think it will do well for hobbyists and EV enthusiasts, but it would be hard to compete with a slightly pricier Tacoma. When people buy a pickup truck, they often use it as a daily commuter as well. > Got a road trip planned? These trips are all doable on a single…
All true but totally irrelevant. I wouldn't get this to make a cross-country trip, but I would absolutely, 100% get this to have an errand vehicle that never leaves the metro area.
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#27I would love to have such a simple car, here in the uk.
Something tells me though, that if such a company got successful, it wouldn't be long before the features started creeping back in, to justify an increase in price.
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#28What’s the price without incentives though?
It is mentioned in the article - $27,500.
[Edit: Got that number not from the original article, but from the Ars article another person posted in this thread.]
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#29It has a base range of 150 miles [0], which won't resolve range anxiety worries as the average American travels 42 miles a day [1] and only has 2 seats. I think it will do well for hobbyists and EV enthusiasts, but it would be hard to compete with a slightly pricier Tacoma. When people buy a pickup truck, they often use it as a daily commuter as well. > Got a road trip planned? These trips are all doable on a single…
The thing about range: it’s always reducing (as the batteries age). And then it also reduces based on factors like temperature. The anxiety is solely from the not knowing.
Yep, and it's something that Slate's marketing doesn't directly address. Before Tesla's brand perception meltdown due to Elon, a major reason why Tesla was much more popular than other brands was because of the Supercharger network, which helped reduce range anxiety worries in the West Coast.
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#30Ars Technica is also running something on this today as well. They must be paying their publicist a fair bit.