cautious optimist

Hello and thank you to all of you that documented your use with this unique truck! My cousin introduced me to them as he nearly got a job with them in Orem. I'm considering one because it fits the ethos I'm establishing with a new business service. however, I am nervous to pull the trigger on such a truck. I am a tinkerer, and I love to play with new technologies. However, in my recent past I had an event that nearly bankrupted me. I'm doing better financially now, but still digging out of the financial hole. The pros for wanting one of these: They are certainly cheaper to get into than a similar full-size truck. I had been considering a Colorado or Canyon before discovering this type of truck. The electric outputs could easily power the all-electric equipment I'll need. (I'm adding gardening upkeep to my landscape architecture design business.) I love the idea of cutting one of the biggest expenses of this type of business, fuel. I live 10 minutes from their office in Orem, Utah and I could somewhat easily get the truck to them for repairs. Cons of getting this truck: Reliability. It will be my first truck for this business and if it goes down, especially for weeks, then I'm in trouble. In this situation I could borrow my dad's truck, or one of my FIL's two trucks, but they would likely only be okay with this for 1-2 days. Maybe a week tops. So that isn't ideal, and I don't feel it looks professional. I could also rent, negating the cost savings this truck promises. It could get expensive real quick. I would need a significant discount to make this worth it to me. (Like in the $10,000-$12,000 range) Could I find one, that is running, for sale when I need it? Other thoughts: With solid-state batteries on the horizon, and if the promise that they could be significantly cheaper, could this one last long enough to swap to one of those when this battery dies? Could that kind of swap be mostly simple? If I could get one cheap enough, would I still be ahead moneywise to do a junkyard swap to a 5.7liter (or the 3.0 diesel) if the price matched the cost of a new battery/other repairs? I could sell off the electric materials from this truck to save on the swap costs. The junkyard vehicle could have everything I need, however those junkyard vehicles from 2015-2018 are getting older and higher mileage now. Other options: Spend a fortune on the Dodge Ramcharger. (And very likely have the same growing pains of new tech) Buy an older higher mileage full-size truck that fits my budget. Buy a newer lower mileage mid-size truck and add solar panels and electric generator to my trailer to charge my equipment. Just writing this makes me think the Mid-size truck is the best solution for me at this time. I won't be towing more than about 3,000 lbs so that isn't an issue. Many of them with low miles go in the $20,000-$25,000 range where my budget is. The biggest con to a mid-size is I have a family of 6 and I'm 6'-4". So if we ever want to use that truck to go camping, we won't all fit. I know I can fit but only if no one sits behind me. (My kids are all getting tall too.) So I guess my question for those of you who have experience with these trucks: are my fears overblown? Would this be a good truck for simple landscape garden maintenance? (I'm talking about spending an entire day at a wealthy estate. Maybe 20-30 miles a day tops. Not run from site-to-site mowing, blowing, and going. I intend to have only 3-5 clients with large acreage estates my first year.)