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 need to see it succeed. I imply, it is so tiny and peculiar. How might you not need this firm to promote one million of them? Heck, it will even drift in order for you it to. It is mainly the good factor I’ve seen this decade, and if that makes me bizarre, so be it. I might moderately drive an lovely 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 almost as small as you may suppose. In keeping with Telo, it designed the cabin “to barely beat the scale of the Toyota Tacoma in each means,” 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 largely love the Tacoma. Plus, the Telo can match a 4×8 sheet of plywood in its mattress with the rear divider down.
In actual fact, if the video is to be believed, there’s even sufficient area 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 appears to be like so much like MotorTrend‘s Alex Leanse) who stated he “undoubtedly match inside.” In fact, everybody on the web is tremendous tall, and there isn’t any good approach 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 spite of everything, the truck is not simply tiny. It is so cab-forward that there is mainly no hood. As a bike rider, I am fairly positive even essentially the most unsafe automobile you may legally promote will at all times be safer than a bike, however in response to Telo, the MT1’s design features a 14-inch crumple zone. Plus, within the occasion of a crash, there isn’t any engine up entrance that would get shoved into the passenger compartment.
As Telo factors out, small automobiles additionally make it simpler to navigate tight areas, making it much less doubtless that you’re going to get right into a low-speed crash in, say, a parking zone. And and not using 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 a substitute 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 together with your automobile is unhealthy, and I imagine it might be higher if fewer individuals did that, truly.
In fact, we’ll nonetheless must see the precise crash take a look at outcomes earlier than we are able to declare the Telo MT1 secure sufficient to drive, however you need to admit, the video makes a powerful case for itself. It is also fully attainable Telo nonetheless will not make it to manufacturing and much more doubtless that if it does, its tiny truck will not promote in huge numbers, however come on. Do not fake you do not need to see this stuff on the highway, going about their lovely little truck enterprise.
