Keep in mind that time somebody in China despatched me a free panda automobile? Nicely after cruisin’ for one more proverbial bruisin’ within the Alibaba electrical automobile catalog, I stumbled upon a variant of it that appears to have a truck’s rear finish tacked on the again. It’s foolish and enjoyable and simply oh-so-perfect.

Meet this week’s Awesomely Bizarre Alibaba Electrical Automobile of the Week!

Look, there are occasions in historical past when combining two seemingly divergent designs has resulted in triumphant success. The spork is an effective instance, representing the height of culinary engineering. The mullet haircut is ever-deserving of a spot on the record, in all its glory. The Chevy El Camino (or Ford Ranchero, Dodge Rampage, or your coupe utility of alternative) actually makes the minimize.

However whereas all of these examples provide the precise steadiness of “enterprise in entrance, social gathering in again”, at the moment’s bizarre little half-car from Alibaba appears to have missed on each accounts.

It lacks the cool issue of an El Camino and goes straight for clown automobile up entrance, clown truck in again.

Don’t get me flawed – I nonetheless find it irresistible! It’s received an nearly an identical design to my very own Minghong electrical automobile that I examined out early final 12 months (not less than, it’s like mine when considered from head-on).

It’s even a four-seater, which I assume makes it a crew cab?

In idea, it sounds unbelievable. A brief little electrical automobile with a pickup truck mattress in again, providing seating for the entire household and sufficient house to hold all of your cement luggage on the identical time. You recognize, for these household outings the place in your manner again from Six Flags you all set up some residence deck footings collectively.

It even comes proper from the manufacturing facility with the panda paint job, which has apparently impressed our graphics man to go full panda this week.

The humor right here isn’t solely within the automobile design although. Taking a stroll by means of the spec sheet exhibits some actual doozies.

The ability is listed at “lower than 50 kW”, which is about as helpful as saying the automobile has lower than 50 wheels. Primarily based on my expertise with these autos, I’m guessing it’s received round 48 kW lower than 50 kW (leading to round three horsepower).

There are a couple of helpful specs detailed on the product web page although, resembling the highest velocity being listed as 40 km/h (25 mph) and the battery as 60V.

I’m undecided how far it should go, however I do know it has a truck mattress you can replenish with additional batteries if you wish to go even additional.

It’s good to see that the little truck is even accessible in a variety of colours, permitting you to customise it to your personal persona.

The panda comes pre-installed on all of them although, so I hope you will have a panda persona as effectively.

You don’t even must be a person of high-priced tastes to personal one, because it seems they’re listed on the market at simply $1,300!

I’d advise a little bit of warning there although. The final time I purchased an electrical mini-truck from China, it ended up costing over 4x the record value to really land it in my driveway within the US. And that’s if you happen to may even get it into the nation – these items aren’t precisely street-legal within the US. In truth, they’re precisely not street-legal.

However hey, we are able to all nonetheless take pleasure in this one from afar, can’t we? And for our upmost enjoyment, we’ve nonetheless received the video beneath to soak all of it in!