It's fair to consider the inventory of used cars (and used car prices) when evaluating the universe of mobility options.

This thing is basically an ultra premium electric golf cart. It will serve certain purposes far better than a Nissan Leaf, and some purposes significantly worse. Same with comparing it to a cargo e-bike capable of hauling kids in the back.

And maybe it will have enough adoption (and associated network of parts, knowledge base for maintenance and repair) to where a 10-year-old example sitting out in the world in 2036 will serve as an affordable option for someone else in that particular moment.

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Yeah its just ..

It's not very cute 😡

And I want it more microvan style. Like I want to have a huge amount of windows and sit far forwards in the cockpit.

I'll go back and look at that Kia again because it does seem very practical.

Thanks that explains it, with 13 kW it's much more plausible.
3.5 kW is simply not enough for the claimed performance.
I searched for if something else is 3.5 or 3,5, but that number does not appear at all on the official page.
Weird typo, and also weird that nobody caught it? It simply doesn't make sense.

Turns out it at least has a 13 kW engine, the article is wrong on that point.
Still not a lot, but at least that makes the performance claims much more likely.

horsepower is a fake number generated by measuring torque and using a constant number.

It's just a unit of power. You can calculate watts from force x speed, too, if you use metric units. Yeah, you can shift the whole thing to a rotational system with torque and rotational velocity (and then derive the linear equivalent force and speed from those units as the radius of the circle cancel out).

Only applicable to gasoline engines.

Power is power. By using similar units it makes it easier to compare different vehicles. If everyone wants to convert to watts, we can, but we'd still be making those comparisons.

I only used hp because most people are more familiar with it.
And for my own electric car hp is also used in more than 9 out of 10 spec spaces to describe the power.
As I mentioned earlier, it has 150 kW equal to 204 hp.

And no you are wrong, it is in no way only applicable to gasoline engine, even giving you the benefit of the doubt that you probably mean ICE, which can be gasoline, Diesel, propane or even hydrogen.

IDK how old you are, but by your logic you sound like you are 8 years old.

ICP. There were streets ahead. But yeah, I can wait for reviews before I start nitpicking a press release.

kW is a measure of power, like HP, not torque. N.m is the SI unit for torque.

I think you're right in that an ICE vehicle with similar specs would be worse off. Also, I think there's an error regarding the stated output of the engine. Official sources are showing a much higher rated output of 13.5kw.

It still seems underpowered if it is intended to carry 6 adults uphill at 50 kph. Regardless of torque, power is the rate at which work is done. It can be expressed as the resistive force times the velocity. I can't find a weight for the vehicle, but based on vehicles with similar specs, I'll guess it's well over 700kg. Moving 700kg up a 6-degree slope, which is still a pretty reasonable grade, at 50kph would require over 13kw and that's the theoretical max, without passengers, headwinds, etc. No way is the Olinia 1 doing 50kph uphill with 6 adult passengers.

Perhaps that's not the problem it's designed to solve, though. Maybe it's okay if it slows down to 25kph, carrying 6 adults, because it's navigating an urban environment. If the point is efficiency in city commuting, this could be a viable addition to the array of solutions for displacing fossil fuels.

Nobody but you said anything about ICE, you are making a straw man argument.
And saying converting from kW to hp has anything to do with torque is as moronic as claiming that km/h and mp/h are measuring different things, when they are obviously not, they are both accurate measurements of speed. In the exact same way kW and hp are both measurements of power. They are merely different scales, and I only made the conversion to make it easier to understand the power in relation to a vehicle.
For instance many EV's have 150 kW engines, (including mine), But in many car pages they are stated as 204 hp.
150 kW and 204 hp is EXACTLY the same, just like 3.5 kW is exactly the same as 4.7 hp, or almost 5 as I wrote.

As it turns out the article is wrong about the kW only being 3.5 kW, the true number is 13.5 kW, which makes the claimed performance figures way more plausible.

Just because an electric engine can output it's max performance faster, and doesn't have to rev up first, doesn't mean it has more than the stated power. Yes with an ICE car it would be worse in acceleration, but when it is revved up, they would have similar performance. Going 50 km/h which is the top speed of the car, it is obviously revved up to the max.
But for some reason you got upvotes? Sad to see that people are so easy to mislead with nonsense.
As I stated before, the performance claimed for the car is simply impossible with only a 3.5 kW engine, and as it turns out it is 13.5 kW.

So your "why not" question is based on ignorance, and your whole comment is an argument from ignorance.