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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] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not everyone should need or own a truck, even if they can affird it .

Everyone, including the working poor are better served by great PT and AT and cities organized around that and then occasional need for a truck is met with rental, like the occasional need for a u haul trailer.

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

These cars would also make for a good car sharing fleet 🤷

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

Yall tend to forget that not everyone lives in cities (or even well developed cities), and not everyone wants to. Sure yeah your idea is good for those living in well developed cities and want to live in them. But those of us who don't really do need to own a car. Public transport is not a one size fits all, and yall need to stop pretending like it is.