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Mexico Just Showed Off a New Extremely Cheap, Government-Backed EV (gizmodo.com)
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The Olinia Uno is a planned six-passenger car that can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge. It is expected to go on sale next summer for about 150,000 Mexican pesos or roughly $8,500, according to a press release.

The car is designed for urban settings and has a top speed of 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour.

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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The suburb where I live is closer to rural than urban, but I could totally see getting one of these for commuting and errands around town.

Just give me an upgraded $10K version that can do 50 mph instead of 50 km/h, because once I get to the end of my street I'm turning into traffic comprised of F-150s and Escalades already going faster than that (illegally).

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I think the range and top speed need to be upped a little bit. 77miles is more like 50 if you don't want to charge to 100 or leave it to 0 every time you drive. 50mph is probably closer to a real city speed yeah it prolly doesn't need to go that fast 80% of the time but sometimes you need to be able to go faster or else you can only travel around on very limited roads.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    If it were faster, it would be classified as a different vehicle and be subject to safety requirements that would double or triple the price.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    That makes sense I hadn't thought about the added weight and cost for higher speed crashes and such. I wonder if the law could be changed since it is a government backed product just to slightly increase the speed since I think that's a hard sell since it would greatly reduce the amount of routes you could take. The range I think is also a huge disadvantage since most people only want their car battery to go between 10-90% at the most really 20-80% is most people.

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