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by crucio 2443 days ago
You may be interested in following Sono motors.https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/

They are making a much simpler electric car with the ethos that anyone can fix it, with readily available parts and manuals/blueprints for every part of the car.

I am excited by it having solar panels as my average daily drive is probably in the region of 10 miles.

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This looks like a perfect car for Africa. We have plenty of sun for solar charging component of the car. We really do not have the money to build out our power grid and if we can use solar panels for charging stations it make rolling out charging stations easier. The price though is still out of reach for most of us.
Renault's doing a low cost EV. You don't get much range but it's good for the money. They'll sell them in China first:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/29729/the-worlds-most-importan...