Yes with 13, not if it only had 3.5.

I only used hp because most people are more familiar with it.
And for my own electric car hp is also used in more than 9 out of 10 spec spaces to describe the power.
As I mentioned earlier, it has 150 kW equal to 204 hp.

And no you are wrong, it is in no way only applicable to gasoline engine, even giving you the benefit of the doubt that you probably mean ICE, which can be gasoline, Diesel, propane or even hydrogen.

IDK how old you are, but by your logic you sound like you are 8 years old.

Of course I know what an ICE car is, what the fuck makes you think I don’t?
You are the one that constantly get the terms wrong, and claim they mean something they don’t.

Nobody but you said anything about ICE, you are making a straw man argument.
And saying converting from kW to hp has anything to do with torque is as moronic as claiming that km/h and mp/h are measuring different things, when they are obviously not, they are both accurate measurements of speed. In the exact same way kW and hp are both measurements of power. They are merely different scales, and I only made the conversion to make it easier to understand the power in relation to a vehicle.
For instance many EV’s have 150 kW engines, (including mine), But in many car pages they are stated as 204 hp.
150 kW and 204 hp is EXACTLY the same, just like 3.5 kW is exactly the same as 4.7 hp, or almost 5 as I wrote.

As it turns out the article is wrong about the kW only being 3.5 kW, the true number is 13.5 kW, which makes the claimed performance figures way more plausible.

Just because an electric engine can output it’s max performance faster, and doesn’t have to rev up first, doesn’t mean it has more than the stated power. Yes with an ICE car it would be worse in acceleration, but when it is revved up, they would have similar performance. Going 50 km/h which is the top speed of the car, it is obviously revved up to the max.
But for some reason you got upvotes? Sad to see that people are so easy to mislead with nonsense.
As I stated before, the performance claimed for the car is simply impossible with only a 3.5 kW engine, and as it turns out it is 13.5 kW.

So your “why not” question is based on ignorance, and your whole comment is an argument from ignorance.

Turns out it at least has a 13 kW engine, the article is wrong on that point.
Still not a lot, but at least that makes the performance claims much more likely.

Thanks that explains it, with 13 kW it’s much more plausible.
3.5 kW is simply not enough for the claimed performance.
I searched for if something else is 3.5 or 3,5, but that number does not appear at all on the official page.
Weird typo, and also weird that nobody caught it? It simply doesn’t make sense.

Its 3.5-kilowatt electric motor is capable of handling steep terrain

That’s slightly less than 5 hp, less than your average lawnmower!!

The vehicle is designed for urban mobility, with a top speed of 50 kilometers per hour,

No way that thing can drive 6 people uphill at 50 km/h.

I think it has some niche use cases where it can be good, and best of luck to Mexico with this. But I don’t see this as a popular means of transportation unless it is very cheap. The cost is stated at 150k Pesos. which is $ 8700,- USD. That does not sound quite cheap enough. But maybe it can be used for a lot of public service purposes?

And then make it look awesome and futuristic?

Maybe use 2 stands to lift it 2½ meter, and give it a clear marking.
Obviously it’s easier to just have it on the ground, but such stands don’'t cost much. They are used for for instance lights, and can be had for less than 40 € for one that is almost 3 meter high.

But honestly if people do it as carefully as in the picture, has anyone then ever been fined for it?

Goddam that is pure genius, I wonder why nobody ever thought of that earlier? 😋

Apparently Volvo has factories all over the world, they once even had 1 in Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volvo_Car_production_plants

Volvo is made in Sweden, but owned by a Chinese company.

May I recommend a European EV instead? 😀

Personally I love my VW ID.4. But I understand they are not well represented in North America.
So maybe a Volvo? They are really nice too, my neighbor has one.
But for anyone with enough money, BMW or Mercedes is probably the way to go. 💸 💸 💸

On our small street we all have electric cars now! VW ID.4 VW ID.3, Volvo XC40, BMW i4. Nissan Ariya.
We all switched within 2 years. 😎 😀

At first glance it looks a bit like a budget sports-car.
But looking closer it gets worse. Like WTF is with those vipers?
A normal hood to hide them under would have been way better looking, and the rest of the car is almost stereotypical basic sports car, with no design features to make it stand out, except the giant glass windshield that doesn’t even look good.

My guess is it was supposed to look exclusive by being elegant, but the elegance failed, which makes it just look simple.

Exactly.

Nah, it’s not really thanks to Trump, he only helped a little bit. American car production is one of the most protected in the world. But that was the case before Trump too. Countries like Brazil are of course way worse all the way back since the 50’s, and their car industry is utterly unable to compete internationally.

So in USA American manufacturers don’t have to compete with China, but in international markets they do, and I think American manufacturers are losing ground almost everywhere outside USA.

Thanks, and sorry, I didn’t have the context when I saw the link. I thought it was part of a debate I was in.

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With 3.5 on the roof, and 3 on the ground it is enough for an average household if there is a lot of sun. And most places it should be enough at least during the summer.