Telo Still On Track to Deliver Truck By Year's EndTeloElectric truck maker Telo still plans to deliver trucks by the end of the year.The Mini-sized MT1 comes in rear-wheel or all-wheel drive, with a range as high as 350 miles.Pricing starts at $41,520 for the single-motor RWD, or $46,019 for the dual-motor AWD. Options abound at telotrucks.com.Telo (rhymes with fellow) has not disappeared. In fact, the maker of the world's cutest truck with the footprint of a Mini and the range of a Tesla Model Y, could be in showrooms by the end of the year, it says.Quick refresher: Telo was founded in 2022 in San Carlos, California (the same Silicon Valley town where Tesla had its lab to make the first Tesla Roadster). The founding notion of Telo was that pickup trucks had outgrown the city—you couldn't drive even a mid-sized pickup in San Francisco or LA. So they designed a truck with a five-foot bed—bigger than a Ford Maverick's bed, almost as big as a Honda Ridgeline, Chevrolet Colorado, or GMC Canyon, and the same size as a Jeep Gladiator and some models of the Ford Ranger and Toyota Tacoma.TeloInside, the Telo can fit five big adults—there's a Telo video of a guy 6'8" being amazed that he fits, and other guys 6'5" raving about the space. Motor Trend's Alex Leanse is 6'10" and he fit. But the footprint is right about that of the four-door Minis.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Telo MT1 is 151 inches long, 73 inches wide, and 67 inches tall. It comes with a configurable mid-partition that can increase the bed size to fit the all-important (to car reviewers) 4-by-8-foot sheet of plywood with the tailgate up, or to allow for a third row of additional seating for up to eight.The MT1 has your choice of one or two electric motors for rear- or all-wheel drive. The 300-hp RWD single-motor configuration gets to 60 mph in 6.0 seconds, Telo says, and can carry 2,000 pounds of payload or tow 6,600 pounds. The 500-hp AWD configuration gets to 60 in four seconds, carries 1,700 pounds and tows 6,600 pounds, Telo says.There are two batteries available. Telo listed the smaller battery at 77 kWh and the larger 106-kWh. Telo states on its website telotrucks.com, that the smaller battery offers a range of 260 miles and the bigger battery takes the truck as far as 350 miles on a charge.Published reports have said that it can be recharged from 20-80 percent in as few as 20 minutes thanks to its 400-volt architecture, though Telo has not released an official charge time. Specifically, that will be two 400V packs in parallel or one 800V pack in series, CTO Forrest North said in a recent video.AdvertisementAdvertisement"That allows Telo to utilize 800V charging that's out there, including 400-kW chargers," North said. "We can charge at 400 kW (sustained)."In other recent news, Telo just signed with Schwab, a Michigan-based Tier 1 automotive supplier that will produce the MT1's body-in-white. First customer deliveries of roughly 500 units are targeted for late 2026. Pricing is no Slate, with a starting sticker of $41,520 for the single-motor rear-drive MT1, or $46,019 for the dual-motor AWD.Concerns? The odds are generally against new car- or truck makers. And when Telo announces fundraising accomplishments, they're in the millions or a couple tens of millions of dollars, in an industry that eats billions of dollars for breakfast. These are genuine concerns.But, on the other hand, it's soooo cute!