Canoo's MPDV is the most exciting vehicle I've seen this year

The boxy Cybertruck-esque MPDV (Multi-Purpose Delivery Vehicle) is a modular platform that can be customized to serve a huge number of disparate use cases; from simple cargo hauler to food truck.

If you're not familiar, Canoo is a startup transportation company in LA founded in 2017 by Stefan Krause and Ulrich Kranz formerly of Faraday Future and BMW. Their small team is radically reinventing transportation with an electric vehicle platform that sheds conventional car packaging constraints.

A real life Lego car - embracing modularity
While some may be unimpressed by it's boxy aesthetic, the MPDV's deceptively simple appearance is an affordance made in the name of customization. The more complex a form, the harder it is to modify. Keeping it simple makes it easier to build a system out of. It also lowers production costs and MSRP, which is not a trend we're used to seeing in the automotive world.
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