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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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1321 points kwindla | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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paulajohnson ◴[26 Apr 25 07:45 UTC] No.43801675[source]▶
This has much the same design philosophy as the original Land Rover: tough, reliable, simple and maintainable. It was originally developed as the UK answer to the Jeep, but rapidly became the standard utility vehicle for anyone with an outdoor off road job. Especially farmers. Something like two thirds of all Land Rovers ever made are still in use.

This might well go the same way.

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1. constantcrying ◴[26 Apr 25 08:17 UTC] No.43801813[source]▶
>This has much the same design philosophy as the original Land Rover: tough, reliable, simple and maintainable

Where do you get any of this from? Especially EVs are not something you can easily tinker with as the risk of killing yourself is pretty high. In general they are also more integrated and less maintainable and it seems unlikely that this won't be the case here. Maintainability costs money and to make a 20k car happen every cent needs to be saved.

As for reliability it is obviously one of the first things to sacrifice to make low costs happen. We have seen nothing of this car, I doubt the engineering is even far along.