I’m sorry, but riding a motorcycle is vastly different than driving one of these, even the posture from riding to sitting makes a huge difference in comfort, but also these things are claustrophobic as hell, most people don’t realize just HOW small these actually are.

Imagine riding your bike and being enclosed by glass by an inch everywhere, your comfort would drop massively.

They are like driving an ATV or go cart with a canopy though. Kinda scary to be going highway speeds in them around even other sedans. You do get used to it though. Just like anything else.

You mean where the people and shopping would go…? In an already compact kei car where it’s a premium…? Wonderful idea! /s

There’s also more to it than just battery size, more weight, less range per W, more cost to manufactur, so higher cost to buy… wouldn’t be a kei car and lose the insurance and other benefits….

If you’re struggling to believe something so simple, you maybe shouldn’t be commenting on something you have no knowledge on…?

That wouldn’t get me to one side of my city and back without a charge, but with chargers at malls, shouldn’t be an issue.

More range would make it larger, defeating a large portion of its purpose.

It’s meant for driving around a city, 200km should be more than enough for a day of shopping.

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The free to fuck the land up I guess.

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So computer illiterate don’t think it’s a smaller number

… where do you think the battery’s would be stored and charged…? Either on a structure above ground, so drive up on it, or underground and it would already be excavated…

The extra infrastructure would be there for the changing and charging already, adding the lift or hole is moot and a fraction additional cost.

And forklifts figured this out well over 5 decades ago this isn’t some engineering unicorn that they need to figure out from the ground up. The techs all over the place already.

You are*

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They don’t because no one would pay double the price for a worse vehicle dude…. To undercut them, they would need to tank their profit, which obviously for good reason, no company would do, it’s also hella illegal to boot regardless. So to answer why? It’s fucking illegal dude lmfao. You clearly have a axe to grind, and aren’t even looking at the actual data, just the bias in front of you regarding “China”.

People are free to import and buy them, what don you think is stopping them…? Its because it’s a more expensive inferior product. There’s no hidden thing here, there’s no conspiracy. You just can’t understand that China makes cheaper stuff, fullstop.

What…? Lots of vehicles are sold online without dealerships, where’s this an actual rule, let alone a law?

Okay, and factually their labor and parts are cheap. Your own source even says that this a major factor.

And you do realize every country subsidizes auto makers yeah? How much did the USA and EU countries do in same time frame…?

Read your own source maybe?

For its part, China has declared the EU subsidy probe a protectionist maneuver by Europe, saying that its automakers are winning because they make better products. Of course, even the study’s author say that the rapid adoption of green tech in Europe in particular is due in large part to cheap goods coming from China.

The source is also a German investigation? So it may not even be entirely factual either dude…

They can drop the battery out from underneath…. You’re not seriously suggesting that this would be done by users and not automatically? The easiest place for this would be exactly where it is now, underneath EVERYTHING.

It’s not like you are gonna man handle the battery yourself in and out of these dude.

The precedence is there, there’s scooters that already utilize this exact exchanging. Hell forklifts figured this out decades ago… and you want to make it sound like it would be an issue in todays age? Semis have used it for years too, why do you think they would go back to manually doing it? Even if the batteries were light enough to move by hand, you would spend more time unplugging and plugging them back in than it would be to charge them….

They aren’t manipulating, shits just cheaper to make over there. So they can make more profit and still charge less.

Sciences and space has used SI for ever….

In Canada it’s legal to download and watch content for personal use, so it’s when it’s shared that it becomes an issue.

Just like you could record anything with a vcr, you just couldn’t share it with your friends.