Here's an EV I could actually see owning.

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[Jon Haigwood]

Looks like my old BMW with a sewing machine motor in it. 

[Jon Haigwood]

China has already made one 

[1972coronet]

I watched that episode yesterday, and I thought it was a nifty 'update' of the BMW Isetta. Nifty little around town vehicle with a spacious storage compartment -- what's not to like?  

[Ace-Garageguy]

20 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

I watched that episode yesterday, and I thought it was a nifty 'update' of the BMW Isetta. Nifty little around town vehicle with a spacious storage compartment -- what's not to like?  

Especially if the real object of going electric is to "save the planet" by reducing energy and material use all through a vehicle's life-cycle, and not just posturing with virtue-signaling, ignorant hypocrisy?

This little car is perfectly adequate for what most people do with their cars most of the time...carrying one butt from point A to point B, on short trips (like to work, or the store, or general errand-running, etc.)

Leave your energy-guzzling heavy pickup or 4+ passenger car parked when you don't need its much larger carrying capacity, which is most of the time.

EDIT: Take me, for example. I often need a truck in my daily life, but not every day. Driving a full-size pickup for daily transportation is, frankly, wasteful. I'll be the first to admit it (and that goes for gas OR electric). This little car would serve me perfectly on most days I don't need a truck, but just need to get myself around.

Relegating my petro-burning dinosaur to occasional use when I actually need it would have nowhere near the negative environmental impact of replacing it with a 6000 pound electric truck, and continuing to use it for daily transport.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[restoman]

That's pretty cool!

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 10/7/2022 at 10:28 AM, Jon Haigwood said:

Looks like my old BMW with a sewing machine motor in it. 

[cobraman]

I believe there is a Hotwheels very much like that one.

[stitchdup]

2 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

i bet thats a singer when it runs