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>A small affordable truck works great as a commuter

Not if it has two seats and you want to carry more than two people.

>picking up supplies from a hardware store for home improvement.

I don't remember where I heard it. But it was something like "most people buy cars for reasons least likely to happen". If you aren't using your bed daily you bought the wrong car. Buy a trailer if you need to go to a hardware store once a month.

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> Not if it has two seats and you want to carry more than two people.

Then you don't want a small truck.

> If you aren't using your bed daily you bought the wrong car.

Plenty of cars have a second row of seats that are not used daily too. I guess they bought the wrong car as well.

Plus not a lot of cars have trailer hitches...

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>Then you don't want a small truck.

Yes, that was my point.

>Plenty of cars have a second row of seats that are not used daily too. I guess they bought the wrong car as well.

Cars with only two seats are in almost all cases more expensive. To buy a pickup you pay extra, to get 4 seats you don't.

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Just answering your initial question.

What you personally need I have no idea nor was my reply pertaining to that.

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A tiny minority of Americans are so often at a home supply store that choosing a pickup over a trailer would make any sense.

Gain, people do not buy cars they need. They specifically buy cars for situations they will never find themselves in.

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> A tiny minority of Americans are so often at a home supply store that choosing a pickup over a trailer would make any sense.

Your scenario here makes even less sense because most cars do not come with a trailer hitch (trucks on other hand...), you're buying another thing (which lowers that this is supposed to be an "affordable" EV), you have to renew registration for the trailer, and have a place on top of your vehicle to store it.

A truck bed is nice to have sometimes. You can quickly throw things in it (like plywood, a new large flat screen, bicycles, fishing gear, a dead deer, etc). You don't have to hookup a trailer or fiddle with wiggling things between doors and so forth.

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Again, people buy cars for the reasons least likely to happen.