e
Telo Trucks' Micro EV Pickup Truck to Offer Solar Charging Options
The MT1 is a funky micro EV pickup designed by Yves Behar. It's supposed to go into production this year, with a $50,000 price tag.
Manufacturer Telo Trucks has now partnered with solar EV manufacturer Aptera. Aptera-built solar panels will reportedly be offered as an option on the MT1. Buyers will be offered three options: A roof-mounted solar panel, a solar panel tonneau cover and a solar panel camper shell.
It sounds awesome—the ability to have a truck that can haul stuff, powered by the sun—but a closer examination of the stats reveals that we're still in the baby-steps portion of this energy direction. Aptera says their solar panels "generate up to 200 watts each at peak sunlight, delivering 1-2 kWh per day based on location and season." The MT1 requires 200-300 Wh per mile, meaning each panel would add just 3.3 to ten miles of range.
The other thing worth noting is that Telo Trucks hasn't even revealed the vehicle's payload capacity. That's a rather important stat for the pickup owner that has selected an open-bed vehicle for ease of hauling; this signals that the MT1 is aimed at the adventure crowd rather than green-minded contractors.
At press time the company hadn't announced the price of the solar panels.
-
oFavorite This
-
Q5Comment
Directory Company Profiles
Core77
Industrial Design
Resources
Industrial Design
Resources
-
Core77 Directory
Find the Best Industrial Design CompaniesGo -
DelveWe are a multidisciplinary product innovation and development firm that brings bold ideas to market....
-
Artefact
Artefact is a strategy + design firm. Design is powerful. It determines how we experience life, and ...
-
Ammunition
Founded in 2007, Ammunition is led by partners Robert Brunner and Matt Rolandson. Our work is create...
-
Agncy Design
Using design as a tool to reduce structural inequity. We work with teams and leaders to make the equ...
-
Spanner
Spanner, a creative engineering and product development design studio, enables the world’s leading b...
-
Shark Design
Shark Design is a full service product development company with offices in Hong Kong, Shenzhen (Chin...
-
PDR
PDR is a major award-winning, multidisciplinary international centre for design and research with a ...
K
{Welcome
Create a Core77 Account
Already have an account? Sign In
By creating a Core77 account you confirm that you accept the Terms of Use
K
Reset Password
Please enter your email and we will send an email to reset your password.
Comments
I love that we could get a small, functional truck! The rest of the world has products like this but we don't due to tariffs. A lot of people don't know there has been a 25% tariff on foreign trucks for the last 40 years... this has made the US truck market completely isolated which has allowed US trucks to mutate into Toal characters with prices going over $100k for essentially non-functional vehicles. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
$50K?? Wow. A lot for a tiny truck.
Yup. Auto manufacturers have re-aligned expected car prices. They know we are RAVENOUS for vehicles, and fully take advantage of that. Gone are the days of reasonable car prices and payments. I saw an article that the average American has a $700/month car payment.
Not really. Average new car price in the US is about $49k. Average truck price is way higher than that. A lot pickups are closing in on $80k or more and are way less useful than this little thing.
Preliminary specifications, to be verified by SAE tests standard in the next few prototypes;