>Then compare this to something like a Kei truck and it's really quite pathetic.

I will forever be sad that Canoo was wildly (possibly fraudulently) mismanaged and went bust before they ever built any of their planned pickup trucks:

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/canoo-pickup-tr...

They were going to be built on the same platform as their vans and the best way to describe them is "Kei truck upsized and uppowered enough to be safe on US roads." They had neat party tricks like a compact bed for daily driving that could expand out to fit full size ply and fold out workbenches on all four sides of the truck.

I'm not even a truck guy and I desperately wanted one of these things. Just such a cool concept.