Kanu reveals a bubbly electric pickup truck

No, this is not a Duplo toy – what you see above is the design for a pickup truck from California electric vehicle startup kanu.

Appear in A leak on reddit on wednesday, and then It was later confirm ReutersThe head-turning EV truck is not out until 2023. By that time, Tesla’s Siebertruck, electric Hummer pickups, Ford’s electric F-15 pickups should all be on the road. Canoo said it would start taking pre-borders for its pickup later this year, but did not release pricing details.

The toy truck shows that Kanu is to advance the design of a microbus-style vehicle. Which it first debute back in 2019, which it originally planned to sell on a subscription-only basis.

However the canoe has undergone a lot of changes since the debut of that first vehicle. It is now a publicly trade company. That are after a merger with a special purpose acquisition company at the end of 2020. Its new executive chairman has also prohibited the company from selling commercial vehicles. Based on the original van design and technical platform that powers it.

But this does not mean that Kanu is actually while trying to make vehicles for regular consumers. This new truck bridges two sets of customers thanks to being load with all kinds of utility features.

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There are manifold-down and flip-out work surfaces on the Canu’s pickup. One in the nose of the vehicle and the other on the side of the truck bed. Is an extension that can be pulled out to make the bed a few feet tall. There are electrical outlets (120V and USB) inside the bed and in the storage compartments. The promo image shows the truck housed in a roof rack. In the “van life” market, bid to capitalize on the “overlander” trim with captor shells and pop-up tents.

All of this is in keeping with the vision of Canu’s original vehicle, decked in pegboards inside that the company imagined people could use to customize and personalize the vehicle. And the ability to use the modular features of the new trucks in so many different ways – and to customize them from start to finish when ordering – is the new executive chairman of the startup, Tony Aquila, a big selling point for small businesses and more adventurous. The consumers whom Kano is targeting.“Overlander” version of Canoo’s new pickup truck.

“When working people see it, they go, ‘I can have a better standard of living with this vehicle, and I can get a return of capital.” And each of these areas has a place to make a return on capital, which is why we spent so much money to develop the smartest [truck] Bed, ”Aquila said in a video announcing the truck. (Canu spent $ 6 million in research and development in 2011, $ 13 million in 2019, and $ 52 million through the first three quarters of 2020, Recent government filing.)

The sloping roof of the truck also accompanies the original vehicle of the Canu, although it is a far more familiar design feature for a van. Fortunately for Canu, Tesla has already begun to spread the imagination of the public as to what a pickup truck might look like.“This is for America.”

Aquila said in the video that it was our dream to make sure that we had a vehicle that brought a truck to the market. That really surprised people just from the scene and then became functional. “This is for America. It is made in America, anyway. “

The Kanu truck will be built on the same platform that powers the company’s other proposed vehicles. Meaning it largely shares the same specs in multiple configurations. The highest-cost all-wheel-drive truck will have approximately 600 horsepower and a range of over 200 miles. While the lower-cost versions will get closer to the 100-mile range and feature a single motor at the rear. The truck also uses the same brake-by-wire and steer-by-wire system Kanu developed for its other vehicles, which reduces complexity.

These technologies have made it possible for startups to have so many different designs on a single underlying technology platform. They are also things that attracted the interest of Apple. Which at one time wanted to achieve as Canoo The Reporter Door Especially reported earlier this year.