Car has range up to 46 miles, speed up to 25 mph
Is the conversion kit /addon free or in addition to the 14K USD price?
Weighing just over 1,000 pounds and with a length of about 8 feet, the vehicle will initially be for use in private communities, resorts and golf courses, with a top speed of 19 mph.
It’s a big fucking golf cart
In Europe it does 45 km/h, so I don’t understand why they limited the US model to 19 mph
It’s a death trap on US roads. It’s going to be run over by a pickup truck on the first day.
I think these actually aren’t even street legal in most states.
owners will be able to install a kit upgrading their Topolinos to federally regulated Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs), allowing a speed of up to 25 mph and access to certain public roads
Yeah so if I understand correctly, it doesn’t actually hit the minimum federal requirements to access public roads without that upgrade kit.
In Europe it works well tho. For narrow and slow roads is good
I’ve driven one (The original, Citroen EV AMi, of which this is a badge engineered version) in Madrid. It’s well suited to European cities, and probably to NY, Boston, Pittsburgh, SF, and some others of that type of layout. That thing is a glorified golf cart, as many have said. Naked tubular frame covered by a cheap plastic shell, about as safe as the aforementioned golf cart, but street legal. nearly zero equipment beyond a cigarette lighter power socket. In Europe it costs around 7.000€, and I find that a huge ripoff. I could probably put together such a low tech cart for under 2.000€, not hyperbole. With economies of scale, Stellantis can probably make them for under 1.500€ or less. They want to sell them in the U.S. for 10x the mark-up…
Well, at least there is the legendary Stellantis reliability.
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I could see retirees in South Carolina and Florida gated communities driving around with this and trying to out-Karen each other
Really tough sell when there are cheap used EVs on the market. Bought my 2013 Nissan Leaf for <$5k, ~60 miles range (given degradation), >80mph. There are only going to be better options out there as time goes on and more used EVs hit the market.
the vehicle will initially be for use in private communities, resorts and golf courses
Oh.
from late summer owners will be able to install a kit upgrading their Topolinos to federally regulated Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs), allowing a speed of up to 25 mph and access to certain public roads.
Oh.
Just get an e-bike then.
Just get an e-bike then. and if one has problems with ones balance, ones legs or ones hands. Some people can’t operate a two wheeler. Is it a niche vehicle? Yes. However even niche vehicles have their place.
Expensive golf cart that won’t even fit the clubs. Well done.
It’s a Stellantis product so it will probably be a gigantic pile of shit.
It’s a rebranded citroen ami. So a PSA product, which might be worse (they’re all stellantis now though).
It cost half that price in Europe. It makes no sense to buy something like this if it cost more than $13.000. I don’t understand why they would release it at that price, if they couldn’t get it any lower they should have just abstained.
Is this a joke?
