EV startup VinFast adds an electric pickup truck to its lineup.

Vietnamese EV startup VinFast is trying to get into the electric pickup truck and compact EV markets. It unveiled a new concept called the VF Wild at CES 2024 in Las Vegas and announced plans to start selling its smallest EV, the VF3, outside of Vietnam. The truck will have mid-size pickup dimensions and a folding mid-gate to allow the 5-foot bed to turn into something functionally closer to an 8-foot bed (when the rear seats are down). The VF3 is a two-door city car with limited range and an affordable price tag (think sub-$20,000). It has yet to ship in VinFast’s home country, but the company now says it will sell the car globally. The company is also trying to build factories in North Carolina, Indonesia, and India, and has multiple other models in the works.

Link to the original story: https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/ces-2024-vinfast-vf-wild-truck-vf3/