TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as a favorite homemade EV pickup, often as an honorable mention in electric truck discussions.
What it is
Simone Giertz presents Truckla, a homemade pickup truck conversion of a Tesla Model 3, shown in a short humorous promo.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends daisystanton · 2023-08 · on “The end of cool small cars”
Ughhhhh -- yes, I constantly dream of a pickup truck on a car-size chassis, and often mentally hack off the back of cars on my jogs to imagine what they'd look like as trucks (my version of imagining girls naked ;-)) * The Auzzies had an old version of this: [LINK] * There's an awesome Tesla pickup truck mod that I'd buy long before the Cybertruck: [this video]
Cites bellyfullofbac · 2021-12 · on “Homebuilt pickups: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in Sweden (2016)”
Suddenly the Truckla (Tesla pickup) makes more sense: [this video] - the inventor is a Swede living in the US.
Cites lsllc · 2023-11 · on “Canoo's rugged new 'American Bulldog' electric pickup truck”
No, but it's nice to see more entrants to the EV truck space. So now we have: * Ford F-150 Lightning * Tesla Cybertruck * Rivian R1T * Canoo American Bulldog Of course honorable mention to Simone Giertz's Truckla: [this video]