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The truck totals itself upon impact. Just about any collision is enough to cause the truck's deeply ill-conceived stainless steel exoskeleton to stress and damage the adjacent panels, because all of the force of the collision is applied directly to weak mounting points and then every adjacent part basically falls like dominoes.
They made a truck that essentially cannot be repaired, what few repairs that can be made can only be done by the factory stripping the truck down completely and rebuilding a new truck from scratch on top of the original structural battery, and because there is no frame every single trim panel is actually integral.
They made an eggshell out of stainless steel that tears itself apart because it's too rigid, attached it to a load bearing lithium-ion battery pack, and then just clipped the plastic interior pieces onto the eggshell.
There's no frame?!
Check this out, here's a photo of it. They're essentially just a pile of plastic parts hanging onto these discrete stainless steel sheets.