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.
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).
It’s a golf cart. But these have utility around Mexico city.
"We should not let them into our country,” Farley said during an appearance on Fox & Friends, according to Bloomberg. “Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country, and for us to lose that to those exports would be devastating to our country.”
Ford CEO Jim Farley is so full of shit. Ford is making trucks in Mexico and Canada and no longer has lower cost options, just big stupid trucks with plastic engine oil pans.
Yeah, nobody makes vehicles in the US or Canada that aren’t made in part in the US, Canada, and Mexico. That’s just the post NAFTA manufacturing environment. Labor heavy and high pollution components are made in Mexico while skilled labor and assembled parts are made in the Great Lakes region crossing borders as is convenient.
plastic engine oil pans.
I had to do a double-take. Holy crap you’re not kidding. Considering that it’s a feature of metal pans to deform (instead of cracking or breaking) when colliding with something, switching to a brittle material is just asinine. WTF, Ford?
I like it but if it only goes 31 mph, then it’s not really a car. IMHO. People drive around in golf carts in my neighborhood all of the time. I’m pretty sure they’re nearly the same thing.
It goes 50 kph, which is the speed limit in many cities. It’s clearly aimed at people who need a city car and won’t be taking it on the freeway.
Sounds like terrorism to me. Another good reason for the US to invade and install a puppet. /s obviously. Fuck the USA.
Mexico is cool
Mexico in pretty warm
Yeah, I mean, they are the source of (nearly?) all avocados. Can’t beat 'em…
Mexico has 36M cars currently on the road. I would be more worried if I was an American selling into the Mexican market
Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Haley Stevens recently introduced the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act, which aims to ban connected cars built or designed in China, as well as other adversarial countries like Russia and Iran, from entering the U.S.
Love a bipartisan commitment to bad economic policy
“Protect us from Chinese cars”, fuck these dipshits. Have they ever considered protecting us from crushing poverty or environmental collapse? “OH MUH GOD ITS A CHINA CAR!! TAKE COVER!!!”
ban connected cars
Does that mean that unconnected Chinese cars are OK? Talk about a win-win… just pull the SIM / antenna.
I wonder if this is being aimed at a replacement for the ubiquitous bocho, or original VW bug, that still dominates the intracity car fleets of the many smaller cities and towns in the mountains Central region. If it’s rear wheel drive that’s my guess, those things only ever go on nigh-vertical narrow cobblestone roads in dense urban environments so low range and slow speeds won’t matter at all.
50 kmh isn’t much, even for city driving.
50 is higher than most people can drive in a city because of traffic.
Can it do 50 up a long gentle hill with 6 occupants or 50 on a flat well paved road, a slight tail wind and a jockey who just took a shit behind the wheel?
It’s plenty for most cities in the world.
I know in the US everyone’s driving at 120mph through tight city streets while shooting children, but the rest of the world isn’t like that.
Car brain alerta… Car brain alert.
Dublin city centre is 30kph limit.
That’s more than enough speed in an urban area. Safety is more important than speed.
Considering how.much people look at their phones instead of the road I think 30km/h should be the max in cities.
Most of Japan’s cities are 20-30. There are some bigger, multi-lane roads that are 40 or 50. It kinda depends on road size, curvatures, and how residential the area is.
Speed limit in cities in Denmark is 50 km/h with many places being 40 or lower, so it would be quite relevant here
Well apart from most of the major arteries and ring roads typically being 60 or 70 km/h in larger towns and cities… You are not going to be very popular puttering down “Ringvejen” at 50. The occasional tractor or other machinery causes enough bunching up as is…
hehe true, but I’m not saying people need to drive 50 on ringvejen.
I’m instead saying that 50 km/h is sufficient for many places (but not all) in cities.
My best guess is it will be part of their public transport system. As an example, in Mexico City they have small vans that run up and down a hill but spend most of their time at the base of the hill waiting to go back up. They could charge for a bit while they wait at the bottom.
Finally a good looking EV
Put a pop up camper top on it and I’ll take two
It’s a bar of soap.
Top speed of 31mph, and with a camper on top, it will be even a bit slower than that. 77 miles of range also isn’t a lot for something you want to go camping in. If your campground is more than 38 miles from the nearest charger, you’re just shit out of luck – not to mention that your camper on top will also significantly reduce range…
Can you fit fold out solar panels and a power station in it?
FTA:
It also has enough space to transport someone in a wheelchair and be charged using regular power outlets at home, with a plug similar to what you would use for a microwave or refrigerator.
So yes, and also, your power station doesn’t even need an adapter, just an extension cord.
Yeah, top speed ain’t high, but uh, just park, camp for a sunny day or two, recharge your car.
Infinite range at tortoise speeds, at least when the sun is out… which I hear is fairly often, in Mexico, and/or when most people would want to go on a vacation.
EDIT
Ok so from here, it has a 14.7 kWh battery, in the car.
So, roughly realistically, to fully recharge the battery from empty, in a single sunny day, you’d need something like 8 500W panels, or 10 400W panels, or 12 300W panels.
Or, if you assume 2 sunny days, half the panel count.
Now, that many solar panels is probably about half as expensive as the car itself, but you absolutely could fit them into this thing.
It sounds shitty and awesome and exactly what I want.
The “good looking” EV:
lol
But why?
The car is designed for urban settings and has a top speed of 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour.
It sounds like maybe a 25kWh battery? Why can’t it have a real top speed like every other actual car?
Because then it would not cost $8500.
China has already solved that with better cars for the same price, but they are not being sold to us
Why can’t it have a real top speed like every other actual car?
They skimped out on safety and crumple zones in order to make it lighter and cheaper, but that makes it extremely unsafe at high speeds.
It’d likely fall apart at those speeds.
You know who.else showed off a new extremely cheap government backed vehicle … HITLER
And the world bought millions of them for the next 50 years. What is your dumb point.
No way it’ll be allowed in the US, our automotive industry is terrified of legitimate competition.
wait where’s the rear window
Where we’re going, we don’t need
roadsa rear window.
Its a golf cart…
I’m sure it will meet all of the strict safety requirements of other countries…
Mexico makes some pretty good cars man.
Like, none of their own…but there’s a lot of auto assembly in Mexico, and for some brands those plants are preferable because of their track record.
Sure, but what about this ultra cheap EV that’s like half the price or less of the next cheapest EV on the market elsewhere?
