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Top speed of 78 miles per hour and a maximum range of 140 miles. This car is not really acceptable for freeway driving.

As an American, our typical freeway speed limit is 70mph. I’m not familiar with the speed limits where this car is designed to be sold/used, are you saying this car is too slow to drive on the freeway? What’s the average speeds for the freeways over there?

I assume bgorman is American, as he has quotes the values in miles, even when the website gives them first in metric.

130km/h is the motorway speed limit in many European countries, this car's top speed is 125km/h. It's advertised as a "city car" though, so it's probably fine. In and near cities the limit on motorways is often 110km/h or less anyway.

In the Netherlands the highway speed limit is now 100km/h to lower CO2 and N emissions. So it would do perfectly fine here.

In my EU country minimal car speed for highway is 80km/h, so this car would be allowed to drive there. Trucks are limited to max 90km/h on highway here, so only question would be if it is agile enough to be able to safely overtake trucks, or it would just have to follow some truck most of the time... I think that is quite ok for city car.

For us metric using people that's 125km/h and 225km range. Enough for day to day use, esp. in Europe.

That top speed is less than I would be expected to drive on most freeways in Denmark.

Most commuters never drive on the freeway. Especially in Europe where most cities do not have freeways inside the city.

It is not an this is not a problem for the target audience. As we accept that desktop computers and laptops meet different requirements, small cars for short urban trips are just a different requirement and there is a pretty big market for it.

In this country, at least, the speed limit on motorways is 120km/h, so that should be fine. It’s probably aimed primarily as a city car, in which case the range should also be okay.

It's meant for poor Europeans and rest of the worlders, and definitely not for Tesla buyers. And in this case, for city dwellers.

I'm only half joking about the "poor" part. For 80% of the world a car starting at $35k (which is actually about €45k everywhere outside the US, so more like $55-60k) is an expensive car. I'm pretty sure the world average car price is $20k or less.

There's no mention of price anywhere in the source material though.

Cheapest in Europe which means less than the Skoda Citygo which is ~£20,000.

Gossips in local EU media says the price is expected to be around 15k EUR before benefits.

in Romania the state incentive for electric cars is 10K EUROS! can't wait to buy this car for 5K :D

Not really, cause it's 10k EUROS but no more than 50%

I know Dacia and Dacias are cheap. Ain't nobody gonna buy a $50k Dacia. Maybe in 2040, but definitely not now.

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