There could also be no assure the tiny Telo MT1 will ever go on sale, however I am additionally not going to fake I do not desperately wish to see it succeed. I imply, it is so tiny and peculiar. How might you not need this firm to promote 1,000,000 of them? Heck, it’s going to even drift if you would like it to. It is principally the good factor I’ve seen this decade, and if that makes me bizarre, so be it. I would fairly drive an lovable little electrical truck and be bizarre than be a traditional loser like everybody else.
However whereas the Telo truck is in regards to the dimension of a two-door Mini Cooper, as the corporate factors out in its newest promotional video, it is not practically as small as you may assume. In accordance with Telo, it designed the cabin “to barely beat the scale of the Toyota Tacoma in each manner,” and I do not hear too many individuals complaining the Tacoma is simply too small. Possibly they exist, however I positive have not met them. The individuals I meet principally love the Tacoma. Plus, the Telo can match a 4×8 sheet of plywood in its mattress with the rear divider down.
The truth is, if the video is to be believed, there’s even sufficient house contained in the MT1 to comfortably match a number of 6’5″ individuals, and the 6’8″ man they discovered nonetheless had loads of headroom, even with tall hair. Heck, they even discovered a 6’10” man (who positive seems loads like MotorTrend‘s Alex Leanse) who stated he “positively match inside.” After all, everybody on the web is tremendous tall, and there is no good method to fact-check their claims, however as a 6’6″ man with the physique of a Greek god, that is nice information for me, personally. Wait, why are you laughing? I stated cease laughing.
Security first
From the second Telo revealed the MT1, the primary query everybody had was about security. In any case, the truck is not simply tiny. It is so cab-forward that there is principally no hood. As a bike rider, I am fairly positive even essentially the most unsafe automobile you’ll be able to legally promote will at all times be safer than a bike, however based on Telo, the MT1’s design features a 14-inch crumple zone. Plus, within the occasion of a crash, there is no engine up entrance that would get shoved into the passenger compartment.
As Telo factors out, small autos additionally make it simpler to navigate tight areas, making it much less seemingly that you will get right into a low-speed crash in, say, a parking zone. And with out a lengthy hood in entrance of you, you are much less more likely to hit one thing or somebody if you need to cease shortly. In a scenario the place a far-bigger Ford Maverick would have hit a pedestrian, Telo says the driving force of an MT1 “may simply get flipped off or yelled at as an alternative of sued.”
As everyone knows, automotive journalists are extremely rich and infrequently the targets of frivolous litigation, so that is additionally excellent news for me, personally. Additionally, killing individuals along with your automobile is dangerous, and I consider it might be higher if fewer individuals did that, truly.
After all, we’ll nonetheless must see the precise crash check outcomes earlier than we will declare the Telo MT1 secure sufficient to drive, however you need to admit, the video makes a robust case for itself. It is also completely potential Telo nonetheless will not make it to manufacturing and much more seemingly that if it does, its tiny truck will not promote in huge numbers, however come on. Do not fake you do not wish to see this stuff on the highway, going about their lovable little truck enterprise.
