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What you're describing is the situation in the West. In China there are hundreds or thousands of startups making cheap city EVs, most of them under $10K.

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They would be also classified as micro cars or straight out electric bikes with a roof. So it really depends what you define as a car.

I.e. A tent can be house too, but I don't think that most of people want to buy a place for tent when they are talking about buying a house.

No, they are real cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkOqIEUAlw4

They max out at 62mph, which would make them not legal to drive on most highways in the US. Saw some reviews from people who actually got it in the US, and they mentioned that they cannot go on any roads that have a speed limit above 45mph.

At this point, might as well buy a motorcycle and actually stay highway legal.

Pretty damn cool, but won’t come close to passing and NHTSA safety test in the USA.

I guess the "NHTSA safety test" is about high speed highway collisions. IHMO there should be a separate test for purely city cars, that move a lot slower.

Actually it’s 35mph. And we have never had a set of regulations strictly for “city cars “, an impulse I certainly appreciate but which in practice would be difficult to manage, I think.

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