REEvisiting with REE Automotive plus the Rebadged Mullen Class 3 truck | Work Truck Week
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- Last week Mike and Eric went to Indy for the Work Truck Week Expo. While there they talked to David from Ree Automotive and Paul from Mullen.
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Great job Mullen!!!👏🏿👏🏿
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Super engineering on every stand. Really super encouraging to see the large shift to electric drive.
Great show! Thanks for the information and your time.
THANKS MIKE,DAVID AND PAUL AND THE MUNRO TEAM…INTERESTING, AND 😎🎼💚💚💚
looks like every1 is ready to play ball !! good luck every1 !! look'n sharp!
Thank you. Great
Beautiful Mullen 3 truck, simple designs, user friendly and efficient use. Hope to see these on the roads for many companies soon.
Thank you for thinking of service.😊
Looks pretty darn cool actually. Very nice.
Mike is great on camera. More of him, please.
Muln will be all over the 🌎 world someday !
Lets go......
😂 your new
Very good truck 👏
Can’t wait to buy one
Looks nice.
21:06 “this inverter is all solid state.”
- dame, No tubes?? 😆
To have the support, to say the first version was not great and be given a chance to make it better is what is lacking in so many companies .
🎯
very nice
The guy bragging on the bumper from the flat nose truck made me roll on the floor laughing.. bragging about how the bumper sticks out and inter too further than the rest of the front of the truck and just so it gets damaged first? Isn't that the very definition of all bumpers. 😂😂🤣
The past 2 videos have been a breath of fresh air from alot of the content lately.
Tbh I've noticed alot of tesla fanboying byist in your channel this past year and I seriously think your ability to bring unbiased objectively to your core business. this may begin to affect your credibility.
Just a humble opinion.
AWESOME!
Mullen 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Excellent! Do you think you'll be tearing down one of these?
Let's go muln 🚀🚀🚀🚀
They need to add regenerative braking unless they already have it. Does not seem so. The advantages of regen range from less pollution to a total lower cost of ownership. Would love to see these on the road.
that MUNRO accociate needs some TOPICK mens Consealer.
R3E is very practical in that it uses off-the-shelf main components from the major brands and that's a big servicing plus.
I think the Mullen 3 truck looked great. How does it compare in capital cost to an ICE chassis? Is the ladder frame a standard measurement (if such a standard exists)? That would allow for ready made buildouts.
At 00:09 we see the interior of the Bollinger B1. It would be great to see of review of it.
Is not Bolllinger
@@AlegrameldiaYa It is, there's no truck quite like it bollingermotors.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BOLLINGER_interior-76-Edit-1-684x1024.jpg
Or for their new B4 and 5 for that matter.
@@2nd3rd1st 🤝
MONRO live - I did not know RICHARD DREYFUSS was a Mullen sales rep........lol.
Thank you for covering REE Automotive. I think it's a genius idea.
I would like to see tests of the system under load. Considering your other video on Ree, I could imagine some issues with alignment because the chassis and the brackets for the corners will have to deal with different forces and over time. Multiple swaps of the REE corner could introduce some wear to the bracket, worsening alignment. I'd imagine, if corner-chassis integration isn't top-notch, this could be a future reliability issue. Any thoughts?
Is that an Isuzu built truck? Cab looks like it for sure. The frame being different is interesting.
REE on Munro watchlist. 👁
THX TO ELON WHAT WE SEE TODAY HIS BECAUSE OF HIM BUNCH OF FOLLOWERS
Thanks Sandy and crew. I bought stock in both companies because of earlier reviews by you. Both companies have the potential to grow . The price/share for both companies is ridiculously low and therefore good to take a gamble on. For the cost of 1 week of Starbucks latte, I can buy over 100 shares of either stock at their present price on the Wall Street Casino( =NYSE). If they go belly up, I am out only 1 week of latte.(LOL).
Complexity appeals to Stupid people.
Mullen!
REEE REEE REEE
Good platform for a camper!
Add a range extender and you are all set.
good platform for GARBAGE truck.
What expo is this? Wonder why they just showed these 2 companies but not others
Work Truck Week and we showed other companies in other videos from the expo.
Still need a funnel for the washer fluid fill. Wasted door too. Why even have the cover?
The Mullen truck looks like a retrofitted Mitsubishi Canter.
I can see Mullen's does know their clients and users. However, Mullen's needs to do a clean sheet redesign. What they showed us with this model is they're not really trying. All they did was retro fit a very crude and out dated electric motor, battery pack and inverter to an old fashioned truck. This truck looks like there is a lot of wasted space. A good designed EV doesn't need a driveshaft. If you remove that driveshaft you could put a lot more batteries. Also, you can make that electric motor and inverter much more compacted. I'm sure if they let their engineers at it they could come up with something incredible.
Mullen is a scam
Sorry, but all that Mullen did to this truck is the sticking the badge and adding washer fluid :) I would argue you on canceling the driveshaft.
@@sergiu-bolocan They need a clean sheet redesign. Keeping the driveshaft is not a clean sheet redesign.
Want a MUNRO to take a hold of a ford E transit , Rivian VAn, ESprinter - Bright drop
Just imagine being in the same manufacturing sector as Tesla.
It must be terrifying
I can't imagine it
Except they're not. Fleet is the goal
Which Tesla manufacturing specialty, sedans or vaporware?
Except Mullen manufactured about 0% of this truck
When will someone modify the R3E drive system for automobiles?
Are we to "assume" these trucks take advantage of regen braking since it wasn't mentioned? I heard about electric air conditioning, but what about heating? Is it inductive or are they using a type of heat pump?
I would be using the waste heat from the water-cooled inverter and motor. Heat pump for the AC, and maybe in conjunction with the hot water system.
REE - one Direction MECCA .
I was surprised/disappointed to see a remote motor with driveshaft rather than direct drive and what looks like a manual transmission stick shift lever/boot rather than a shift button/knob?????? Clearly not a clean sheet EV design, more retrofitted. Many good ideas though and better than ICE.
15:30 Still traditional motor location requiring using a not very efficient rear differential axial.
Why not using axial mounted motor like any modern electrical vehicle?
Indeed. But I think it is cheaper, they probably have those in stock for the next 400 years
13:30 if you spill the fluid where does it go 🤣 ? In the dash ? nice...
Mullen buy an Isuzu N series truck minus engine and transmission and pass it off as US design
Thery better license the Tesla NACS system, and get those corners from REE to avoid the cumbersome bars connecting the front wheels.
Mullen truck. Very nice. This is just me, but shouldn't the charge point be on the front of the truck, say behind the badge. That way, this utility truck can pull straight into a Supercharge stall without blocking other EV vehicles making it a no brainer for the driver. Repositioning the charge point adapter is just a cabling redirect.
Most chargers I've seen have reallly long cords!
Think about all the non automotive things you could bolt those Ree corners to. A large shed. A fallen redwood tree. A really big rock.
Hi Sandy. Let me be the last to let you know. You phone has apps that allow you to listen to way many AM and FM stations. Live.
some even have FM radio tuners built in, no data plan required...
REE - where is the HEAT pump ?
It's a rebadged chinese YUEJIN EC100, which is a brand of SAIC. It is quite old there - was launched 5 year ago in China and the lately updated model has a new cabin, with modern materials and design. The one in the video is a conversion from diesel truck, a clean sheet EV design would not have tilting cabin - the needed access would be through tilting passenger seat, motor would be closer to the rear axle to shorten the shaft between them. I would cancel the spare tire, it's a city truck so there is little use, specially when you mount a tail lift - spare goes. No antiroll bars front/rear - spare weight, but lose in driving confort. I'm surprised that it fitted in Class 3 with such a thin rear axle :) The batteries are popular in the truck manufacturing in China modules from CATL, you can see aluminum radiators in the bottom, but in this truck there is no battery thermal management. You spare weight, but loose cooling/heating. Interesting that CATL doesn't make this modules without radiators, only with - and manufacturers decide to instal the thermal management to them or not. Most probably the presenter made a mistake - this are 81,14 kW/h modules, for 89 - it would be four smaller modules put 2 by 2 on each side. There are same height longer modules that can fit to this wheelbase, with 106 kW/h, but - more weight. The chemistry is LFP, which looses less in cold and are less prone to degradation. Real mileage with Class 3 max weight - 100 miles.
But we must give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s - the presenter is very passionate about the truck and knows his market!
Great post! 👏👏
If Mullen was to design their initial vehicle from scratch, they'd already be gone. Being able to produce a modified reproduction saves a ton of money. Now, I would imagine down the road, there will be new designs if they make it.
Interesting Mullen presentation. Possibilities remain amazing with the rear chassis but that cab with the gear shift and parking brake are sad. Someday a full EV build ground up.
MULLEN is a Class 3 free floating Vapor.
I find it very frustrating that they were talking about that Mullen truck like they thought of all those innovative ideas when every single one of those features were just copied from the hino cabover truck 🤦♂️
TESLA semi is a Class 8 Long Distance truck w/ over 535+ miles w/ 82k Gross.
and is FASTER uphill than any Production semi.
How many are actualy on the road?
I’m quite shocked at the Mullan truck. Most of the design features detailed have been in common usage on U.K and European vehicles for 20years now. Check out the Daf LF range including the covered step, angled side windows for improved visibility and mirror configuration.
It’s a Chinese truck pump and dump op
the KANDI K32 4x4 off road Pickup Truck is better and only $28,000.
It feels like that box truck/Ree is indirect competition to in-wheel electric motors. I think the weakness of current in-wheel motors is the compact package. if they employ larger wheels/tires, more and beefier components can be put there.
Interesting thought from Mullen, what if that size of truck designed to pull a trailer and match a Semi. Tesla Semi, though compact, still leaves a lot of free space.
Looks like Isuzu NPR with electric motor and battery.
Is it possible to retrofit these corners into existing ICE trucks to covert to electric ⚡
Rik, I would say no. Good question however.
YOU can, its not worth it, too Expensive $100,000 truck Conversion.
may as well buy a Cybertruck.
17:35. 89 kW_hours_, not kW. Power is not energy.
Fell in love with the girl at the truck show.
She said What? And I told her that I didn't know. 🎵
silly worrying about a 12v battery when you have a 400v one
Seems like Mullen needs to step back & adjust how they're doing things. This seems to be very much taking an ICE-designed truck and working the EV into it.
That works, but there are all sorts of costs in efficiency, etc. Having that motor out there driving a classic drive shaft into that rear diff. Saves you from having to design a rear integrated axle, but would seem you then pay the penalty in weight, efficiency, etc. Do that several places in the truck and it really adds up.
Mullen is a scam
Definitely. However, meanwhile, as we are waiting for better options still in development or testing, that's some fairly clean execution. If you need it now, that's definitely one of the ones to get.
I wouldn't go for integrated axle, this would be more expensive and fleet operators will not be happy with complex things. Move the motor close to the rear axle and make the most shorter drive shaft. This way you keep it simple, simplest motor, simplest rear axle and you protect the motor from crazy vibrations on the axle. It's a bit more heavy, but it's much more reliable the old way.
Im not sure what they are optimizing it for but that powerful Motor has a lot of cables going to it, might be a cost calculation vs a shaft
No they didn't. They took a company that they purchased (ELMS) and worked their own logo on top of the old one.
That Mullen will set like hotcakes just because it’s electric. Any fleet manager will quickly figure out the economics and will rapidly switch to EV trucks.
Having said that, this truck looks like it’s out of the 50s. Why is there a shifter?! Why does the screen look like it came out of a 1990s? Why is it as aerodynamic as a brick?!
Why can’t people figure out EVs and design them from the ground up.
So frustrating to see companies put their heart and soul into these products and them coming out like nobody gave any thought about designing a good EV truck - not just sticking an EV drivetrain in a gas truck. 😕
"Why is it as aerodynamic as a brick?!" Like a UPS truck? ;-) It aint doing 150mph...
More double digit range EV 's??
REE is trying really hard. they should just make vehicles.
why Doesent REE just make a MORE Reliable Drivetrain ?
2 million miles , no Maintanance.
I'm not sure what kind of business would be able to use a truck with only 130-140 miles of range.................
Some guys do that in a morning.
Useless.
Paul at mullen really needs to get to learn the products he is selling. having notes just doesn't look so good.
Hate to say it, but igotta agree😬…. Feel like the first minute, he jus seemed overwhelmed. Bounced back pretty well though. Agree notes gotta go though. KNOW YOUR PRODUCT 🐂🐂🐂🐂
The Mullen executive not knowing their product by heart and needing a cheat sheet shows what a bad product it is, but further, how little work the executives of this company does. Not a good look.
I wonder if they have ever seen an Isuzu or mitsubishi forward cab truck? It is a truck, there is no huge advantage... all of the truck manufacturers will be converting to electric. Just start selling them before others blow past them so I can make money on the stock.
Interesting reports but your music is a mistake.
It’s great to see so much activity in the EV space, unfortunately I suspect most of them will be gone soon. When the guy’s telling you about the robustness of the mirrors you have to wonder what he’s leaving until last…
For the Mullen truck on display, why not more the windshield fluid reservoir to the driver's side instead. this way he can visually check levels every time he enters the truck instead of having to physically open the passenger door each time re "remembers" to check fluids. It would be more efficient in the long run, to my thinking. Even better, a light on the dash when fluids are low.
"Damn, no fluids to wash my dirty windshield." Pulls over and gets out, with traffic flowing by, goes around the truck and finds he forgot to unlock the passenger door, has to go back around to the driver's door, again with traffic flowing by, unlocks the other door, has to go out once more to check or fill his fluid tank, and return, hopefully safely, to his seat once more.
Yeah, nothing more upsetting than the washer fluid warning light coming on! ;-) Shouldn't the maintenance guy back a headquarters be checking that?
Why the tilt cab when "works in a drawer" would be cheaper and easier! Lazy execution on rear axel and conventional drive. The ambulance industry would be a prime target if you had gone with air ride and made the center of the cab an access for the rear. Get rid of the shift knob and put the E brake on the left side of the drivers seat...or make it electric.
Tilt cab is very well established in Europe, I doubt the drawer approach is easier or cheaper
Mullen........Mullen.........Mullen ........Allau Ackbar........lol.
The Mullen truck seems like a dated design. The drive train layout and electrical systems make zero sense today.
Everything was impressive with that Mullen until he hit the range 🤔🤔🤨🤨😒😒😒
Mullen is a scam
When Mullen goes bankrupt, someone will have some nice designs to buy up. If Mullen’s truck was self powering they would have something.
Mullen is a scam
Self powering?
It's not their design. Another comment mentions it's a rebranded truck from one of SAIC's brands.
Mullen is a pump & dump.
Muln is a Shell company! He never bothered to mention that they did not have anything to do with design and manufacturing of that truck!
would like this ❤️ all electric ⚡ truck 🚛 the toxic diesel ⛽ Isuzu was horrible especially the gear box .... great 👍 around town ... hopefully the Battery will improve the diabolical ride it was nicknamed the bouncy castle.... wondering how it compares to the all electric transit truck? At the moment have to drive horrible Transit stinky noisy toxic diesel truck 😲🤔🚛.... Electric is a future ❤️⚡
DELETE the GAS engine , fuel tank, Gearbox, and Transmission & Exhaust and now you have Something.
They heard leftists and thought, that's a great name for our new company. 😳
I wish you asked Mullen who did their truck 100% CHINESE
This show representative for the REE is a joke. Trying to make it sound like normal things or something really innovative. I am not impressed at all.... 🫤