[ldoughty]

I really want to agree -- I really want a truck like this in the USA, but unfortunately I need to disagree simply because it is not street legal.

I have an old 2001 beater truck I use for the purpose now, but I can't replace it with this EV because it's not street legal. I live in a rural area, but luckily I can drive 2 miles to a dump (transfer station) and 5 miles to a place with bulk mulch, soil, gravel, etc...

But I can't possibly get to either without going on state roads... And I can't drop my gas truck and replace it with an EV for $7k if it would not be legally usable.

I can't see many farms that could use this. For the same reason -- I certainly don't want to use my truck to get serval buckets of mulch, just to shovel it into the EV, then to shovel it out at the final destination.

If the gov lets me slap "farm use" tags on this, and that's all is needed... Okay, I'm interested.. but I think there's usually more requirements

[asdff]

OP uses it to move wood and dirt around the parents ranch. It's basically replacing a wheelbarrow, not the farm truck.

[thrashh]

A $7,000 wheelbarrow

[shever73]

In the video, he makes the point that the other thing he considered getting for his parents was a golf buggy. This came in cheaper and more useful.

[4ggr0]

I was not aware that golf buggies are so expensive, wow. I mean, doesn't surprise me that much considering that everything related to golfing seems insanely expensive, but I didn't expect golf buggies to cost more than a used car, new motorbike or other things.

[asdff]

Worth it for his aging parents tending to a huge property

[bluGill]

A lot of tractors are mostly $20,000 wheelbarrows.

[djbusby]

Can you put the red-triangle on the back? Works to bring other farm equipment onto state roads (for short distance)

[MarcelOlsz]

Just hitch it and use it that way. Worst case scenario you pay a little more for gas. Problem solved.

[dylan604]

Isn't the entire point to not be using any gas? You want to use a gas powered ICE truck to tow the EV to load contents into the EV's bed, then tow the EV back to where ever just to avoid transferring content from ICE->EV->application?

[R0b0t1]

If you assemble it from a kit it becomes legal. No parts requirements iirc, specific cutout for homebuilt machines.