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Finally A Right-to-Repair Small Affordable Electric Utility Vehicle (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The best daily transportation isn't a car/truck at all, but there is still some need for freight/hauling to be done.

I'm posting because this truck feels like the opposite of modern trucks. I mean the CyberTruck (literally the icon of Cyberpunk dystopia) and other trucks like Rivian are:

extremely anti-right to repair
brag about their 0-60 (instead of practicality/efficiency)
a privacy nightmare
massive in size
have high prices across the board
are absolutely crammed with manadory luxury features like air conditioned seats or motorized trunks

This truck, with manual roll-up windows, seems to be about getting work done. Its not trying to be the biggest baddest fastest most-techo-advanced thing money can buy.

I bet, in less than 1 year, hobbyists will have solar panel array mounted on the back of these.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The last car I had with that was a 2004 Ford Focus, and those things were made cheap. Like afraid it would snap off on a cold winter day kind of cheap. In fact, the gas cover did exactly that one very cold morning.

This thing is built very cheap, so I wouldn't get too excited.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm less excited about this truck specifically as much as the idea of affordable economy vehicles with no-frills making a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So exciting to see that this might start making some changes. I would be very happy to see European-style small cars that are simple and just made to get you from one place to another. It doesn't need to be an identity thing.

Of course, public transit is better but light trucks would be a good start I suppose. Won't save the environment but might save lives in accidents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's being made let's see if it's a success. I'm guessing it won't be much of a success but would love to be wrong.

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