Posted on 04/26/2025 9:31:59 AM PDT by Cronos
20 grand is a pretty good price if it has the bed size they say. Obviously it would mainly be good as a “second car”. In today’s dollars, a 20 grand car is practically a throw away car.
I paid less than that for a 2016 Tesla Model S with only 63k miles in perfect condition. It’s not a pickup, but the hatch will swallow almost everything, and it’s loaded with goodies. 100mpg cost equivalent around Western Washington. I’m one happy camper.
You can get a good used Tacoma 6cyl base for 10 grand.
Give me a heavy duty naturally aspirated straight six, gas or diesel 250hp,AC, radio, crank windows f350 type truck and I’m happy. I’m currently using an 02 f350 and the engine will be rebuilt rather than a new truck bought.
The real strength of this thing is its simplicity. Those of us lamenting the days when we could get a small, fuel efficient pickup are the type this is marketed for. You’re not paying for a bunch of options we don’t really care about.
I’ll bet it has crank windows. And who uses their radio nowadays. I use my phone through bluetooth in all my cars, and even more often with headphones. But I’m seeing this as a second, not main car.
Charging at a Walmart or other department store or a gas station, etc., costs way more than charging at home. I talked to a Tesla owner and he said the cost is as much as 3 times more than at home. You do have to have a charging station installed at home though, no idea what that cost is.
Like my Ford Sport Trac Works fine unless you need to haul drywall in a downpour.
for a cheap set of wheels without having to pay a ton extra for all the bells and whistles.>>>. Eliminate much of the regulation and someone could build a cheap car. not junk but cheap as in lower cost.
The article says it has a temperature control system, but no tunes.
Looks like it would be okay as a maintenance truck for a park, golf course or similar.
Not so much for every day driving.>>>. Yes a little too big for my back yard.
This could work for me if it got more mileage on a charge, a bit more horsepower, and tunes. 150 miles is just not enough, and 201 hp. wont be enough to pull a wagon load of firewood and a loaded bed without straining I don’t think. Gotta have tunes too.
$27.5K — and with EV batteries, they practically are throw-away vehicles.
I don’t consider that a truck bed “holds” something if it’s hanging out.
Well, there’s an Indian company that makes that, but it costs $26k.
https://tfltruck.com/2019/08/mahindra-pik-up-review/
My portable Level 2 chargers cost a hair under $300 each (3 yeas ago). They require installing a 60 amp circuit with a 50 amp dryer outlet (NEMA 14-50). I hired an electrician for that.
I have two circuits/outlets with 2 chargers always plugged into them (unless I take one with me on a trip) so that I can choose which one to charge with. One of them is constantly powered, the other is intermittently powered when solar is giving me free power. So if we come home with our EV charged for more than enough for the next day's driving, we'll plug it into the intermittently powered charger. Maybe we'll have free power to charge it more, maybe not. But if we come home with less range for the next day, we charge it with the constantly powered charger (may or may not be free, but will definitely be charged for the next day).
Maybe it will if you first cut it into three pieces.
Don’t understand the electric fetish. Would have been a better idea with a fuel efficient 4 cylinder IC engine.
They want all the bells and whistles..
They just won’t pay for them.
probably not. they call um power ports now but even those are going away for USB ports.
I don’t either. The two pickup trucks I owned each had an 8 ft. bed, no back seat. If I put up the sideboards, I could haul almost a cord of firewood. The wheel wells limited it little bit.
No. Nope. Never.
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