The Slate Truck is more of an upsized BEV Kei Truck then a scaled down Full-size BEV Pickup

[Tom Sawyer]

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[KevinRS]

Neighbor has a kei truck, and while the size would be perfect for me, the performance would not. After warming up the engine for 10 minutes, it still sounds way under powered just leaving the driveway. I just looked it up and it seems like kei trucks are 18-25 second 0-60 (if they can even go that fast), and some people around here are already concerned with the 8 sec 0-60 time of the Slate!

Crumple zones just need to absorb impact energy, so they can even be in the back. We feel more comfortable with thinking there's space between us and the impact, but pushing the whole rigid cab backward into a crumple zone behind the driver can be effective too.

Crumple zones don't just allow the cab to remain rigid. They allow the deceleration of the cab (and you) to be spread out over more time, so lower G forces. A rear crumple zone would do nothing for that in a front collision.