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title: "Canoo’s Electric Minibus Will Start at $34,750 Before Tax Incentives"
description: "It will offer an estimated 250 miles of range and up to 300 horsepower."
date: "2021-05-18"
modified: "2021-05-18"
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  - name: "James Gilboy"
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# Canoo’s Electric Minibus Will Start at $34,750 Before Tax Incentives

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The United States isn't exactly blessed with choice when it comes to cheap, utilitarian electric vehicles. After all, a commercial workhorse the [Chevrolet Bolt with a factory-deleted rear seat](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36297/a-chevrolet-bolt-with-the-rear-seat-delete-option-is-the-tiny-electric-van-you-didnt-know-gm-sells>) isn't. But in 2022, Canoo will offer Americans an attractive new choice in the form of a minibus it aims to sell for less than $35,000, breaking a price barrier the far larger Tesla has failed to.

Launching next year, Canoo's "Lifestyle Vehicle" minibus will have an entry-level Delivery trim with "targeted pricing" starting at $34,750 "before incentives, or optional equipment." In other words, it appears Canoo won't achieve that sub-35 price by sneakily subtracting $7,500 worth of EV tax credits from the retail cost the way Tesla did. If, of course, the formerly subscription model-favoring Canoo manages to undercut $35,000 at all.

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**Canoo**

Above the non-passenger Delivery trim will be Base and Premium models, each seating five to seven occupants, and starting somewhere between the above price and $49,950. Canoo estimates a range of up to 250 miles and a power output as high as 300 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque.

Come 2023, Canoo expects to follow up its minibus with [a novel pickup truck](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39707/the-600-hp-canoo-electric-truck-is-a-one-size-fits-all-rig-for-adventurers>); a model with slightly less range at 200-plus miles, but greater suitability as a work vehicle. In addition to an extending bed with fold-down sides and built-in electrical outlets, Canoo's truck will offer an 1,800-pound payload capacity and twin-motor all-wheel drive with over 500 horsepower and 550 pound-feet of torque.

Around the time Canoo delivers its first trucks, it'll also be scaling up production of its [highly modular "MPDV" commercial van](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/38262/canoos-mpdv-commercial-van-is-flexible-design-on-a-no-nonsense-electric-platform>), which will offer 170 to 300 miles of range depending on configuration.

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Canoo states it is now accepting refundable $100 deposits on each of these three models, which will in short order face stern competition from legacy players like Ford, with its F-150 Lightning and E-Transit. Against international carmakers like these, upstarts like Canoo will have to prove themselves truly special or face the financial gallows like so many before them.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

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