Tiny Truck Changed Urban Travel Forever

50-years ago, this truck made history. Now it's return has shocked many to realize an inexpensive, non-Tesla truck exists! Christian Seabaugh and video shows the before and after!

"Designed to be easy to build and operate, the Mibot appears to be dead simple. Its symmetrical styling has a cutesy ‘80s aesthetic outside, while inside it sports a single seat with an OTA update-capable infotainment display to the left and a bank of switches on the right. Underneath it sports a single rear-mounted permanent magnet motor rated for 6.7 horsepower (0.79-hp continuous) and a 7.68 kWh LFP battery pack. It’ll have a top speed of 37.2 mph and can cover about 62 miles at a steady 18.6 mph. It’ll take about 5 hours to recharge the Mibot on a standard Japanese 100-volt outlet. Unlike larger Kei cars—a sentence we never thought we'd write—such as the popular $16,000 Nissan Sakura, KG Motors built the Mibot to meet Japan’s “original minicar” regulations, reasoning that so many of Japan’s cars are overbuilt for how the country’s drivers actually use their cars. Japanese regulations stipulate that minicars like the Mibot must be less than 98.42 inches in length, 51.2 inches in width, and 78.7 inches in height; seat a single person; and displace no more than 0.05-liter (50 cc) for internal combustion vehicles, or have an electric motor rated at no more than 0.8 hp of continuous output. The company told Bloomberg that it has received 2,250 firm orders thus far, putting the EV on a path to outselling Toyota’s own electric offerings in Japan. Stateside, Slate says its secured 100,000 reservations"!

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