THIS Truck is Designed Like LEGO's—This Could Change EVs Forever

[Luxrage]

The is rather unfortunate. My old 2012 Kia Soul gave me a choice - remote or key from the same fob.

I guess if the battery dies or electrical system fails, your SOL.

I'm hoping on the bottom of the fob, you could remove it for a physical key to access the truck and tailgate, like some OEMs have. You can see on the door and tailgate handles on the prototypes a keyhole. They appear to be blanks for now, but I wonder if they are intended for a physical key backup.

Edit, Slate can give us these LOL

 

[E90400K]

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We also wanted to be thoughtful about safety and security. We spent actually a lot of time as a team talking about how the most economical that you could get is a bladed key. Walk up, put it in, turn it. ​

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But we had this discussion, myself and other members of the team, about as a single female at night in a dimly lit parking lot, I would not feel safe. There’s a twofold reason we did the fob. One is from the security perspective: you can unlock it from the remote. It lights up, and you can see everything’s safe and secure. We also have a secure key ignition module through that — you put the fob into a slot and through that, it passes a code in order to start the car. We didn’t want people to think, “Well, if it’s affordable, was it not secure?”​

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But it will be comforting for women to sit for 30 minutes in a dimly lit charging station waiting to get to 80%...