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Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars
(www.reuters.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Citroën Ami is available. Closer to $8000 and technically a quadricycle. All bare minimum to make it street legal.
It's great Citroën is making a small, cheap EV ... but why did they make it look like a cross between a Fiat Multipla and a pug?
That thing is ugly.
All cheap cars are made ugly on purpose to make the expensive models more attractive to buy.
"Why is this $8,000 car so terrible," he lamented, without a trace of irony.
It isn't "terrible", it's ugly because of purely aesthetic design choices: specifically that Fiat Multipla style "forehead ridge". It's a styling problem -- not a form factor or price point one.
That thing's front and back are exactly the same. It saves on fabrication costs to use the same part but it gives a weird look.
Turns out there are after market mods for that. Spoiler, other front, flame paint job
What a compact thing, also charges to full in just 3 hours from a normal outlet 🤯