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Huge dud built on lies and ketamine dreams. The target audience is small, if it exists at all. It under delivers in every regard. I’m not sure if there’s anything it truly does well.

I don’t understand why everyone is going the behemoth truck route. It seems the market is ripe for a cheap, electric, light duty work truck maybe even work van shared platform.

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A lot of the Truck market is built on a particular masculine image that requires the vehicle to be big and imposing. While smaller trucks make far more practical sense, the audience in question is more interested in the appearance of doing the work than actually doing it.

> the audience in question is more interested in the appearance of doing the work than actually doing it.

They aren't trying to create the appearance of doing work. They're trying to create the appearance of (faux) survivalism.

I think of the market in two segments. The self identified sigma male who thinks a truck is what makes you masculine. And the much larger fleet market of stripped down work trucks. The later of which seems underserved in the EV space.

I'd love an ev minivan. Looked at the pacifica phev but double the complexity, and few charging options convinced me to keep looking. The price of the ev transit vs the range seems pretty bad otherwise I'd be interested in it as well.

> I'd love an ev minivan.

VW's ID.Buzz is arriving this year. That's your one option.

The Ford Maverick is that truck..

Edit.. not an EV tho

An EV Maverick would be my households second vehicle if it were a thing.

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