That's why I'm looking forward to the Bollinger Motors e-truck. It's as stone-simple as it can be, while still hauling around a mindboggling pile of angry pixies.
I hadn't heard of them yet. The front of the chassis isn't my favourite, but that thing looks surprisingly great.
If it's that economical, can take a beating haul a lot of anything it will be amazing.
Would definitely interest me if I moved out of the city.
(Though I had to chuckle a little because the bulk of the upper body frame/rollbars look like something my dad half-assedly would put together on a weekend—only at first look, mind! https://www.bollingermotors.com/#image-gallery-64)
As someone working in automotive-tech, this company is still vaporware in my mind. I hope it is a success as I am a fan of EV's but until I see a single Rivian doing anything I'd be very skeptical of a 2021 release date.
Would also probably be willing to bet more than 100k Rivian vehicles never get produced.
Seeing a lot of "Model X competitor" announcements from companies just 2 weeks after Tesla announces a massive drop in Model S & X sales. There used to be a good sized market for $90K electric SUV's when there was no decent competition, but when there are high quality $40K electric SUV's available from Kia and coming from Tesla, the "model X competitor" market is going to be a bloodbath for a bunch of companies.
Tesla went in the opposite direction, the anti-Prius design. Maybe it was intentional, but when I see a Tesla on the road (in the Midwest, not super common like in California), I have to really look at it while I ask myself "is that a Tesla?" because from some angles it could be a Jaguar, a BMW, an Audi, any generic luxury car. Nothing about it screams "look at me!", it seems designed to blend in.
There's nothing wrong with that approach, just presenting you with a counter-point. One of the most successful EVs on the market is intentionally designed to stand out in a crowd (the Prius) while another is (I think intentionally) designed to not stand out.
In some cases it's because the "unusual" design is actually more aerodynamic, so they are taking advantage of the "this is totally new and different" thing to finally push those changes out and make them acceptable. Like the wheel covers on the Honda EVs. They would actually make the ICE cars more efficient too, but people just get turned off by the look.
It comes and goes but every so often you get a generation of cars looking kinda weird. The logic is that it's better to inspire a reaction, postive or negative rather than being beige.
I still don’t like this trend towards every product we own collecting data on us.