The $7,500 car is here. Well - UK and france anyway.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Weighs 1100 pounds. I'd have guessed 500.

https://electrek.co/2023/09/13/ark-zero-electric-microcar-yet-starts-making-deliveries/

When I first covered the ARK Zero electric microcar, its specs and pricing sounded too good be true. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” I quipped. Well I guess now I have to believe it, as the company says it has begun making deliveries and shared its first on-road photos.

According to the company, initial deliveries of the ultra-budget vehicle have begun in the UK and France.

Priced at just £5,995 (approximately US $7,500), the UK-based ARK Zero is likely the most affordable electric microcar in the west.

Technically classified as a quadricycle, it is designed to fulfill the car needs of urban dwellers, as long as they don’t need to go too fast or carry more than two people.

The small-statured four-wheeler has a top speed of 28 mph (45 km/h) and an understated 2.2 kW (3 horsepower) electric motor. It’s the same style of rear axle-mounted electric motor used on Chinese micro-cars like my cute little Minghong or my electric mini-truck.

 

[ExpressLane]

Now Joe Crapitalist can trade in his electric wheel chair that he calls a "Tesla"

 

[Mr.Badguy]

I like watching old the Price is Right episodes and seeing brand new cars that cost <$8000. Boomers had it so easy.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

I like watching old the Price is Right episodes and seeing brand new cars that cost <$8000. Boomers had it so easy.

We could still have $8,000 cars if they would leave out all the frills. And i mean real cars that weight 2600 pounds and seat 5. Leave out the AC, power steering, power brakes, power windows, power windshield washer, power mirrors, etc. And no internet access or other electronic toys purposely installed to distract drivers and cause crashes. Not even radios.

 

[Mr.Badguy]

We could still have $8,000 cars if they would leave out all the frills. And i mean real cars that weight 2600 pounds and seat 5. Leave out the AC, power steering, power brakes, power windows, power windshield washer, power mirrors, etc. And no internet access or other electronic toys purposely installed to distract drivers and cause crashes. Not even radios.

Sounds like a Soviet cold war era car. Kind of like the Trabant.

 

[Mr.Badguy]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=No1-4GsQa-g&si=tG6l2sAAyQ96dsdo

 

[Yakuda]

I like watching old the Price is Right episodes and seeing brand new cars that cost <$8000. Boomers had it so easy.

We also had the gold standard.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Weighs 1100 pounds. I'd have guessed 500.

A good pair of walking shoes will get one around a lot better than that thing.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Sounds like a Soviet cold war era car. Kind of like the Trabant.

Yup - keep it simple. Every "feature" is just one more thing to go wrong.