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Three Places Changing Quickly to Fight Climate Change | Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Looked up that $5000 (where?) Chinese car. Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling_Hongguang_Mini_EV

As of a year ago, it'd sold 1.1 million globally; it's the most popular EV in China. Coincidentally, saw one of these rolling by the house here in the PNW (the red/black model, kind of a standout among the silver turds).

It’s manufactured by the three-way international joint venture SAIC-GM-Wuling, in the factories of Liuzhou. (Note the GM in there.) The new VW Bug.

EDIT: Wired review from 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/review-wuling-hongguang-mini-ev/

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the US the problem with driving this car would be all the trucks and SUVs around you.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's intended to be a city car. In the city I live, a LOT of the vehicles I see going by on a 35-45 mph arterial are at or no bigger than this size. Avoid crowded, busy streets, drive safely, I'd have no worries. A LOT of the people who live here could easily commute every day a total recharge takes 6.5 hours.

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