TITO: Electric Argentine car

The only tricky part is that if the ruling party decides they don't like you, they'll 100% legally deny you the authorization to buy the dollars you need to import your parts. Then you're sunk: there's no legal way to import your parts, and as an aboveboard business you can't use parts you import illegally. So, better make sure you stay on their good side.

This is a big reason why our GDP is smaller now than it was ten years ago. We were already in a crisis before covid.

If you're changing a larger amount of money at the free-market rate you can get as much as US$207 for each $45540.

The article states that they failed to develop their own car platform so they decided to sell the car that they already had.

The car that they already had appears to be a Chinese car that you can buy online.

Thus, the claim that the TITO is a 100% Argentine car appears to be a lie.

I think the parent commenter was talking more about a company specializing in the EV platforms like Hyundai-Kia's EGMP or VW's MEB on which other companies would build cars.

(German legislation actually doesn't make much sense because electric scooters are in fact less safe than EUCs; scooters don't require skill to ride, but they fail more often and in more spectacular ways.)

But i think even those are still too large for cities. In my view we need to clean the air _and_ free up space, hence something smaller would be more suitable. Imagine how much less traffic there would be on the m25 or london if they were limited to micro cars.

I sometimes pause and think about how we are able to harness the power of our star, or control atoms, to fuel our cars and power our homes instead of burning crap and inhaling smoke. I think we are getting somewhere.

Fossil fuel dependence basically means humans are too dumb to generate their own energy. There is no dead plant matter buried in the sun, you're going to have to pull that energy out yourself.

I think it is sad that people want to hold back the entirety of humanity just so they can have a slightly better life for themselves and nobody else.

>I don't think there are any rational reasons why it's not the most popular car in America.

It's still a subcompact. For the hordes and hordes of people who need a tad more utility out of a vehicle it just doesn't work without a level of compromise that is solidly into "yeah, F that" territory when you're paying new car money.

Furthermore, it's only economical to buy used because it's not super popular even on the used market. If it was they wouldn't be so cheap.

And I say this as someone who would own one yesterday if it could out "utility vehicle" a 1990s Taurus wagon. The execution is great but the concept that was executed is ill suited to what most people want in a car.

All subcompact hatches in the US market suffer from this.

If there's an underutilized resource in the First World, it's automobiles. They probably spend on average 22 or 23 hours of 24 hours doing nothing. Just sitting there. Uber-izing your own driving could change that, without exploiting under-paid drivers.

The closest thing I can think of is e.g. communities that have dedicated paved roads (which don't allow normal cars) for golf carts to putt around.

You just don't see them because nobody in the US is willing to restrict the usage of normal cars, even where it's obviously needed.

I think that, with u$20k you can buy a tito, a Liliana fan, 6 square meters of sheets and a pole to sail when the engine is overused and you still have money to roast a barbecue for you and friend. And maybe roast that piece of ugly engineering too..

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