Why would you assume there is no A.C.? In the EU quads often do have climate controls they are a special vehicle class with a easy to get licence for younger people. Unlike here you cannot drive a full sized sedan until you pass the road exam and make the age limits which can be as high as 21. You need a class C operator’s lice
nce to drive anything larger than a Ford Ranger / maverick truck a F150 class would be commercial licence only in the EU thats why you don’t see pick ups everywhere that and taxes are by gross vehicle weight. Then per the individual horsepower monthly on your insurance as a tariff used to be by liter displacement but now with turbos it’s by the horsepower.
This drives people to smaller vehicles and for the 18 and unders quads and 125cc motobikes are all you can drive.
They are targeting a 12kw motor and 100miles range that means a ten kWh pack. A single person AC unit with a COP of 4 not all that high would need a 750/1000wh per hour or so for 7500btu of cooling think window A.C.unit plenty enough for a small space around the driver. Cut the range in half worse case for a 5 hour usage in stoped grid lock.
Its me taken 2.5 hours to drive from LaGuardia Airport to SOHO Manhattan a distance of 11 miles for an avg speed of 5mph in not rush hour Manhattan traffic this was at 2pm mid day. In dense cores the distnaces are going to be short under 5 miles a lot under 2 miles. Having a simple follow the car in front of you camera based AI cruise control plus braking system would be worth it’s weight in gold. Creep.Creep.Creep under AI vision based control is already a thing and getting cheaper by the day.
Curb and light pole based chargers are coming no loose cords the cords are in the vehicle and retract or spiral up like a coiled garden hose when done in the boot. L2 11.2kw would put a full charge in 50min into a 10kWh pack. While L2 22or could do it in half hour. Having curb plugs and light post plugs everywhere they do this in China btw means in a uber like rental you pull up to the curb any curb exit the app and plug it in charging for the next person a 45 second task. There would be a fee for not plugging it in to encourage that behavior just like there is a fee for a bad drop off of a Bird or Uber scooter the app makes you.take a picture of the drop.off point and bills you if you don’t take the pic or it’s in a street or illegal parking spot ect.
Just like Bird rentals app will show you where available e-vehicles are ,and what each state of charge is so you know how far the range is left. You already told it your.destination so the AI logic points you to the closest e-vehicle with the range needed. Bird and uber both already do this.
The EU like China is also going the L2 curb, light post, meter post charge point with the CCS standard. They have triple phase 400V everywhere with a modern grid not the 1800s 120/240 split phase garbage the USA has. So their L2 is up too 34kw not the 11 or 22kw that 240v limits. A ten kWh pack is 20 min at EU L2 rates. Having a timeshare rental out of service for 20 min every ten hours is not a deal breaker especially if these are mass produced like Escooters and parked in quad groups at.reserved spots every other block in the cores. Then you only need curb chargers at those reserved spots and it’s no more than a block or two away from a user destination. The app could always offer for a fee the curb side drop at any curb no plug in so drop and walk right into the building.
Smaller vehicles are the splat marks on the road they are are unsafe to be on the road.
Not often seen by others they are in blind spots they don’t see other cars when attempting to merge around in traffic and have very little protection for the driver no plus side to them period.