Why is it kawaii!?
Sooo… how well will this thing deal with midwestern winters?
shut up and take my money!
Coming to the USA in thirty years…
“That flat, angular design of the vehicle helps to cut down on design and tooling costs”
Uhhh. So they literally state it’s designed like shit? How much of the design work ends up in the cost of a single vehicle. It can’t be that much lol.
it looks so OwO
I guess that brings us right back to the same conclusion as always… the US needs EU-style quadricyle laws so that we can have fun mini-cars that still reach mid-level speeds of 40-50 mph (65-80 km/h).
While I would love to have some of these mini vehicles I have seen in other countries, no way in hell that is happening in the US while the roads are dominated by oversized SUV’s/trucks. You cant have both doing 50+ on the same roads. It will never end well for the mini vehicles, no matter who is right or wrong in the accident.
Just stick to side streets. Other than bike paths, I’d take this thing anywhere I’d take my bike (which is almost everywhere I go).
This would be great for city and suburban driving. But I’m imagining driving over one of the very windy bridges I have to cross to get to work and breaking out in a cold sweat.
This might be a nice compromise between micromobility and cars in America. It still provides many of the same benefits as a car, while taking up less space.
Plus, it looks so cute and comes with some cool features like solar panels, AC outlets, and-WOAH, IT COMES WITH A FREE CROWBAR, FUCK YEAH, SWEET
crowbar aint free mate, still gotta buy the car, if ya have to buy something it aint free, also they are not an expensive thing
“No fun allowed”
Yeah what’s with the crowbar?
“Why does everyone want the crowbar?”
“Cuz it’s a FUCKING CROWBAR, are you fucking serious?”
“What are you gonna do with it?”
“Fucking nothing, but I’m gonna own a fucking crowbar now, so that’s the fucking shit!”
The handle to the jack in a lot of our cars is a crowbar.
It also comes with free tires and seats.
IT COMES WITH A FREE CROWBAR??? THATS ALL YOU HAD TO FUCKING SAY TAKE MY MONEY NOW DAMNIT!!
Look at all that space dog! I could fit a whole IKEA box in there and still take up half a lane. I just have to snap my neck and hold my head in my lap so my 6’2 ass fits in the driver seat.
That much solar panel would charge at ~200 watts max.
The van would likely get use 200 watt-hours per mile.
So, essentially, 1 hour of sun = 1 mile of range.That little bit of solar energy can sometimes mean that you won’t need to get towed. Sometimes, you might get stranded a mile or two away from home or a charging station. If you can then just leave it for half a day on the road, walk home and back to pick it up again, you’d have saved a 500usd towing fee.
Shit like that does happen at times
You’re putting too much on the solar. This vehicle will need charging like any other EV, but you’ll also get that little bit a solar each day which will accumulate into a nice little something over the vehicles lifetime.
And it has external AC outlets. So it can run power tools directly or charge their batteries. So it saves gas on equipment, too.
No AC or headlights though.
Yeah, the solar panel is more of a neat looking add-on, but over here in Europe, even two miles will take me to the stores and back twice over. And have enough left over for me to transport things for work between storage and lab with that ample space in back.
And it’d be much nicer than my e-bike in winter.
For a surprising amount of use cases in most non-suburbanized regions, 3 miles a day is all that is needed.
The Van is listed as 3.4 m long and 1.5 m wide
https://newatlas.com/automotive/hwe-puzzle-electric-kei-van/
Assuming you can get only half that for the solar panels that about 2.5m square and solar panels get about 200-300 watts per square m. So we looking at at least 500 watts for a pessimistic estimate and the magic number for watt to daily production is around 4 kwh per watt. So we looking at around 2kwh per day. A tesla s3 gets about 100km from 15kWh a lot of an evs weight is in the batteries so although its a mini van it might not be to far off.
So we looking at 13.3 km per day or 8.3 miles per day (for you yanks).
Thats not an amazing distance but its not nothing. This should be a bit of underestimate as well, but some information is unclear so maybe I’m overestimating but it should be in that ball park.
Looks pretty cool, but what I really want to know is the kWh size of the battery, as well as the potential charging rate from the solar panels in the sun (1kW? 2?). Would be awesome to leave it parked during the day and have it charge itself up to full all the time.
This reminds me of the cars from Total Recall.
Looks better than the “Cyber Truck”.
Too be fair, what doesn’t?
By North American they may mean Mexico because I have no idea how this thing survives US and Canadian vehicle safety standards.