Man unboxing a $2,000 electric truck from Alibaba shares warning to anyone thinking of making a similar purchase after having the vehicle in hand

This guy bought a $2,000 electric truck from Alibaba in China.

The truck was better than expected, and the guy ended up using the vehicle a lot.

But even though the price might seem attractive, the electric truck owner shares an important warning to anyone thinking of doing the same.

This is because these trucks are often not street legal.

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The electric truck was better than expected

Micah Toll, the guy behind the EbikeSchool.com YouTube channel, spent $2,000 to buy a cheap electric truck from Alibaba.

The fact that the truck was built in China, coupled with the extremely low price, made everyone assume the truck would just fall apart after a couple of miles.

But that was not the case.

Toll used it for 18 months, pretty much on a daily basis, and his experience was mostly positive.

While he did see the type of corrosion you wouldn’t expect after just 18 months, the truck did its job, and it never broke down and needed maintenance

But there’s a massive catch.

These vehicles aren’t street legal

As Toll explained, the truck he bought isn’t street legal, and that’s often the case with similar trucks.

So while ultra-cheap vehicles such as this one may be fun to buy and own, you can’t really use them on the road.

Toll didn’t have a problem with this because he used the truck around his sizable property in Florida.

The property is so large it even has a pond that he used to test another cheap vehicle he bought from China, an electric boat, that he bought for just $1,000 and modified to make it a better.

But it’s something worth bearing in mind.

Alternatively, you can always buy a fake Range Rover and pit it against the real thing in a drag race in the desert, which is what we did.