This form factor combined with 200+ wh/kg LFP or 150 wh/kg sodium ion is the billion car EV for the next decade.
It may not be sexy, but it's what the world desperately needs.
TITO: Electric Argentine car
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#132Please give me more options like this in North America. I'd love something like this as the urban run-around to do quick errands that can't be done on foot or via transit. Something under $20K with enough range for a day of driving around. Even better, make it a shared vehicle and I'll just pay a membership to grab one from a lot around the corner for a few hours.
I would rather have an eRockit with some storage options.
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I got a Volkswagen e-UP recently, and it's incredible for what it is - 160 miles of electric range, small, very nimble, large enough for 4 people and some stuff in the back - it's perfect. I have a much larger much more comfortable SUV too, but the e-UP is my car of choice recently. It costs £1.50 for a full charge too - less than a litre of petrol.
Somehow the e-up wasn't on my radar until your comment now. Thanks for sharing your experience. I mostly ask uber drivers about their experience with full evs as they push them to their limits, and most drove nissan leaf or renault zoe. At least those i met, and were _very_ happy with them. I was told that even cars with >200km once the batteries are replaced they drive like new. Pretty impressive. But i think even t…
What about electric motorcycles like the eRockit?
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Please give us more of these in europe as well. We are choked by vws, bmws and mercedeses. Hopefully small electric cars will become the norm in urban centres.
We should build a dyson sphere and get humanity to a Type II Kardeshev scale. Instead, the future looks like eating crickets, climate alarmicism, living in mobile pods and feeling good about driving 2 seater eco-cars. Sad.
Tell me how exactly do you intend to build a dsyon sphere without investing enough to cover the entire earth in solar panels? Covering the entire sun is a far bigger engineering challenge, by a factor of 1000. I swear there are way too many people who lament that our civilization should be 1000 times better but they don't even want to take even the baby steps towards that goal.
Fossil fuel dependence basically means humans are too dumb to generate their own energy. There is no dead plant matter buried in the sun, you're going to have to pull that energy out yourself.
I think it is sad that people want to hold back the entirety of humanity just so they can have a slightly better life for themselves and nobody else.
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So whats the plan? Keep doing what we are doing? I am not the hippie type, but we simply cant continue this way. I strongly disagree with people that say we need less creature comforts in order to improve our ways of managing the environment. I think we should aim for even more mobility, even more living space, even more food, but with much more care about our environment. Whats the worse that can happen? We get to b…
Yea, I think there is a general malaise in certain laptop class / elite class people. First of all, Fossil fuels are the most incredible thing mankind has ever invented. It lead to population increase and saved millions of lives, possibly hundrends of millions of lives. It has enabled everything from agriculture, mining to industrialization and medicine. If there is one thing that has had a profound positive impact o…
>First of all, Fossil fuels are the most incredible thing mankind has ever invented.
Humanity didn't invent fossil fuels, they were already there when we discovered them and we haven't figured out how to make them ourselves in the quantity we need. This type of lazy thinking, where you pretending the work of someone else is entirely your effort when you literally can't replicate it and are even proud that you can't replicate it is honestly quite bizarre.
Humans only invented biofuels which would cause mass starvation because they displace food crops.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please give us more of these in europe as well. We are choked by vws, bmws and mercedeses. Hopefully small electric cars will become the norm in urban centres.
We should build a dyson sphere and get humanity to a Type II Kardeshev scale. Instead, the future looks like eating crickets, climate alarmicism, living in mobile pods and feeling good about driving 2 seater eco-cars. Sad.
Hold your horses. Let's first get electric car adoption up to 90% and THEN we start talking about Dyson spheres, mkay ?
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#137Neat to see. I think the future of these cars will be alot like ARM chips. One company, probably foxconn, will build reference designs and individual companies will license those designs and tweak them, mostly on the interior and have foxconn either manufacture the entire thing or build the chassis/battery pack and let another company build the body/interior. That way you can skip the Rnd Process and just require a f…
There is no future of these cars. Making electric cars is very much a "trying to make a faster horse" situation. In the future people will use electric vehicles in formats we haven't invented yet and can't even imagine.
P.S. Personally I use an EUC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rlw6fDmcQM&t=1s) for commuting and errands, but that's just me.
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#138Neat to see. I think the future of these cars will be alot like ARM chips. One company, probably foxconn, will build reference designs and individual companies will license those designs and tweak them, mostly on the interior and have foxconn either manufacture the entire thing or build the chassis/battery pack and let another company build the body/interior. That way you can skip the Rnd Process and just require a f…
There is no future of these cars. Making electric cars is very much a "trying to make a faster horse" situation. In the future people will use electric vehicles in formats we haven't invented yet and can't even imagine. P.S. Personally I use an EUC ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rlw6fDmcQM&t=1s ) for commuting and errands, but that's just me.
Banned in Germany :( electric vehicles must have 2 independent mechanical brakes.
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You're not alone. I thought we'd be there by now. But at this point in the USA the tipping point seems to be having short distance autonomous mode such that you can order a car and it will deliver itself to your door. That said, it's also telling the fed gov has made little to no effort to promote such an idea. Thanks Big Oil?
That just sounds like public transport with more steps.
I think it would be more accurate to say that it's public transport with fewer steps. Because you skip the walk to the bus stop, the many stops that the bus makes on the way to your destination, potential transfers to other buses, and the walk from the bus stop where you exit the bus to your destination.
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My eyes can tell they're the same. If you look at the cars without bias you'll agree. https://argentinareports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/60dd... https://argentinareports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/tito... https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/MINI-Smart-Electric-C... The cars are exactly alike in size, shape, proportion, body, etc., except for some minor cosmetic changes in the front grill.
What "bias"? I'm not Argentinian, I couldn't care less if they made it or not. There's clear differences even in the photos you provided. Obviously the front grill, but the lights are also a different shape, with the TITO more angular. The door frame is different, it looks like the TITO has a larger piece of chrome on the part you open. I'm sure there's other differences there if I were to look at different angles of…
Check out https://www.chinacarforums.com/threads/mini-evs-in-china.218...
"Design and bodywork: The design was taken from an existing Chinese product. The vehicle parts would be imported from China and the assembly would be done in San Luis. For later, they promise to produce the body parts in kevlar and aluminum material, with the support of a Munro (Buenos Aires) autopartist"