I still love this thing as a concept, and it's irritating that you can't get it in the US. I knew that a Chinese company called Kandi motors was coming into the American market with a...
I still love this thing as a concept, and it's irritating that you can't get it in the US.
I knew that a Chinese company called Kandi motors was coming into the American market with a beefy-looking one, but it looks like they have given up on those and have split their offerings into a slightly more powerful but still extremely disappointing truck, a small collection of golf karts, and some gas-powered motorcycles and go-karts.
TBH it probably won't be feasable for most people to drive these "neighborhood" EVs in the US because of our unusual laws. From what I understand these cars tend to be too slow to be street legal unless the road is marked with a max of 35mph. I've literally never lived anywhere where you could get to any business without needing access to a road that was marked 40mph or lower.
It's not really ever going to be feasible for most people in the US. It's not so much a car as a electric moped with a box on top of it for protection from the elements and some extra wheels for...
It's not really ever going to be feasible for most people in the US. It's not so much a car as a electric moped with a box on top of it for protection from the elements and some extra wheels for stability (there's actually a lot of literal moped/scooters with boxes retrofitted on them in East/South East Asia) - it can be used where you'd use an electric moped, which is not suburbia.
I still love this thing as a concept, and it's irritating that you can't get it in the US.
I knew that a Chinese company called Kandi motors was coming into the American market with a beefy-looking one, but it looks like they have given up on those and have split their offerings into a slightly more powerful but still extremely disappointing truck, a small collection of golf karts, and some gas-powered motorcycles and go-karts.
TBH it probably won't be feasable for most people to drive these "neighborhood" EVs in the US because of our unusual laws. From what I understand these cars tend to be too slow to be street legal unless the road is marked with a max of 35mph. I've literally never lived anywhere where you could get to any business without needing access to a road that was marked 40mph or lower.
It's not really ever going to be feasible for most people in the US. It's not so much a car as a electric moped with a box on top of it for protection from the elements and some extra wheels for stability (there's actually a lot of literal moped/scooters with boxes retrofitted on them in East/South East Asia) - it can be used where you'd use an electric moped, which is not suburbia.