SUVsmake up more than 70%of passenger car sales in the US.
Big vehicles are popular.
The trouble is,the batteries just aren’t up to the jobof moving around all that excess weight.
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Which nobody will want.
“The greater the mass, the greater the force needed to move said mass.
When trying to go electric, the solution is smaller, not larger.”
Render of a Telo pickup with surfboards in the rear bed.Telo
And because it’s small and light, it needsa much smaller battery.
And because the battery is smaller, there’s more room for people and cargo space.
Think about how you use a car in the city.
The Telo truck converted to carry additional passengers instead of cargo.Telo
You use it to pick up that amazing standing desk you found on Craigslist or wherever.
And big cars with big batteries don’t just waste electricity.
The batteries themselves rely on scarce resources that have to be mined and processed and arethemselves environmentally damaging.
A converted Tello truck parked next to a tent during a camping epedition.Telo
Added to that, the currentelectrical infrastructure might not be up to the task.
“The world cannot sustain billions of oversized electric vehicles.
Thats one of the biggest obstacles to widespread adoption of EVs.
Oversized Problem
In Europe, the Telo has an obvious home.
While it might sell as a private vehicle, it would excel in an urban car-sharing scheme.
In this scenario, a car-sized pickup makes a ton of sense.
SUVs have plenty of room, so you dont have to be careful about packing.
