You can get an electric motorcycle for that price. Even electric microcars cost more than $5000. Unless you want to buy a Chinese tin can death machine on wheels that aren’t street legal.
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silencioso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hear me out: a bare minimum electronics car extremely reliable, no screens no bells and whistles and with the smallest engine that costs less than $5.000
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 months ago
Damage@feddit.it 11 months ago
I mean, it’s not like micro cars are safe
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Citroën Ami is available. Closer to $8000 and technically a quadricycle. All bare minimum to make it street legal.
oatscoop@midwest.social 11 months ago
It’s great Citroën is making a small, cheap EV … but why did they make it look like a cross between a Fiat Multipla and a pug?
That thing is ugly.
SCB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Why is this $8,000 car so terrible,” he lamented, without a trace of irony.
oatscoop@midwest.social 11 months ago
It isn’t “terrible”, it’s ugly because of design choices – specifically that Multipla style “forehead ridge”. It would have cost nothing to design front/back body panel without it. A less complicated body panel would look better.
The price point and form factor has nothing to do with it.
venoft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All cheap cars are made ugly on purpose to make the expensive models more attractive to buy.
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
That thing’s front and back are exactly the same. It saves on fabrication costs to use the same part but it gives a weird look.
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Turns out there are after market mods for that. Spoiler, other front, flame paint job
lemann@lemmy.one 11 months ago
What a compact thing, also charges to full in just 3 hours from a normal outlet 🤯