2026 Electric TELO Compact Truck (American Made)

[LevelUP]

This is a cool-looking electric compact pickup truck with a starting price of $42,000. The truck offers substantial utility and achieves approximately 3 miles per kilowatt-hour—comparable to the efficiency of the Model Y.





Tesla should consider offering a compact truck. While their Cybertruck is visually appealing, its starting price of $80,000 makes it more of a luxury toy, similar to the Hummer. In contrast, Rivian’s offerings start at $70,000 yet only achieve about 2.2 miles per kilowatt-hour.

In another case, a family ditched their $110,000 Ford F-150 electric truck during a drive from Winnipeg to Chicago after experiencing charging troubles. The main complaints were that it took two hours to charge and cost more than gasoline.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-1.6932074

Overall, I'm very gung ho about electric cars, though I acknowledge that many of these vehicles aren't highly practical for everyday use.

[NotJoeBiden]

This is a cool-looking electric compact pickup truck with a starting price of $42,000. The truck offers substantial utility and achieves approximately 3 miles per kilowatt-hour—comparable to the efficiency of the Model Y.

This is great. Most American trucks are way too larger for people just using them day to day. It is a good price and might actually be used to haul something rather than sit as a pavement princess.

Tesla should consider offering a compact truck. While their Cybertruck is visually appealing, its starting price of $80,000 makes it more of a luxury toy, similar to the Hummer. In contrast, Rivian’s offerings start at $70,000 yet only achieve about 2.2 miles per kilowatt-hour.

Elon said his Swasticar would start at $39,900 to get interest and did a bait and switch. Everything I have seen about it shows it isn’t worth it’s price tag due to quality concers. Rivians are much better, but still expensive and limited.

In another case, a family ditched their $110,000 Ford F-150 electric truck during a drive from Winnipeg to Chicago after experiencing charging troubles. The main complaints were that it took two hours to charge and cost more than gasoline.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-1.6932074

Ya, electric vehicles are not good for long distances. They take time to charge the battery and can cost more than gas depending on where you get your electricity. They really only make sense if someone has solar power and can charge the car for free, otherwise they are just burning fossil fuels to generate electricity to charge the car.

Sounds like poor planning on the families part more than issues with the truck. Even superchargers can take half an hour or more.

Cost and time were all things they could have easily found out before dropping the equivalent of a downpayment to a house on a truck.

[Ares]

The problem with electric vehicles:

1. Electric vehicles battery packs weigh half a ton and due to their weight cause twice the amount of road damage of equivalent non-electric vehicles.
2. Electric vehicles tires wear out 30% faster than equivalent non-electric vehicles.
3. Electric vehicles battery's degrade at a rate of 2-3% per year, thus your max range decreases over time.
4. Electric Vehicles take a very long time (hours) to fully charge compared to equivalent non-electric vehicles which can fill up in 5 minutes to max range.
5. Electric vehicles can catch fire from being flooded by salt water due to a storm.
6. Electric vehicles can take 40 times more water to extinguish the fires compared to non-electric vehicles.
7. Electric vehicles are on average $12,000 more expensive than an equivalent non-electric vehicle.

There would not even be a market for them if not for tax payer subsidies.

[origamishuttle]

There would not even be a market for them if not for tax payer subsidies.

There are obviously drawbacks, although there are at least a few advantages over ICE, depending on the vehicle design:

• launch/acceleration can be a lot of fun
  
• home solar power can save money if done frugally, and that savings can extend to the EV
  
• similarly, some employers offer free charging
  
• the battery pack can provide some level of backup power to the house
  
• did I mention acceleration?
  

Full disclosure - I do NOT own an EV.

[Jonathan Whatley]

Electric vehicles can perform well on slick roads: precise traction control, low center of gravity, even weight distribution. Winter drivers have to balance this advantage against the disadvantage of battery drain in the cold.