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The World's Most Important Electric Car Is Launching Now, And It's Not A Porsche Or Tesla
The Drive ^ | 9 Sept 2019 | EDWARD NIEDERMEYER

Posted on 09/10/2019 7:40:42 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

And unlike the fabulously-engineered Porsche and the standard-carrying Teslas, this electric car has genuine world-changing potential.

...we concluded that the impressive little car was at least as disruptive as anything Tesla has done... At the time, we heard whispers that Renault's best cost engineers were turning their attention to an electric version of the Kwid and now that it's been announced it's clear that the breakthrough we were hoping for is actually real.

Well, they've done it. With 100 miles of reasonably real-world range for under $9,000, Renault has accomplished something that Tesla will likely never be able to achieve and taken what may well be the most important next step for EV adoption. While the affluent West quibbles about lap times for six-figure vehicles, this modest little Renault is making sure that the millions of first-time car buyers in developing markets around the world ...

(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: electriccars; ev; fakenews; renault; renaultkwid
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To: Moonman62
That would be a close call.

I don’t think I have seen an example of either one in over 20 years.

But to be fair I don’t think I have seen a Ford Escort either.

The 1980’s was a bad decade for car design thanks to emissions standards and high gas prices.

21 posted on 09/10/2019 8:04:52 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Hostage

Yeah, beautiful looking CGI. Reminds me of the 1980’s air-brush paintings. Can’t really tell much about the *car*, though. Other than it’s tiny. Wonder how such glowing CGI could make a Trabant or a Yugo look.


22 posted on 09/10/2019 8:05:45 AM PDT by dangus
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To: DannyTN

You got to be kwidding me.

Just kwit it...


23 posted on 09/10/2019 8:06:09 AM PDT by moovova
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To: KC Burke

Although it’s cheap enough you could use it for local grocery runs and the like and keep a combustion car for needle point.


24 posted on 09/10/2019 8:06:22 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DUMBGRUNT

You have to park on the curb at your apartment.
Your M-F job is 51 miles away.
You leave at 6:00 and get home about 6:30.

Where do you recharge your car - a daily task?
How long does it take?

Just asking.


25 posted on 09/10/2019 8:07:49 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. A)
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To: Pontiac

The La Car got to be known as the La Crap. And it earned that name.


26 posted on 09/10/2019 8:08:47 AM PDT by Clay Moore (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I am shocked, shocked! to find Renault produces electric cars.


27 posted on 09/10/2019 8:08:56 AM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Just when the Trabant is the the bench mark for, "You can only do better", along comes Renault...

I do have a question for electric car fans: Where are all these amps, that are supposed to replace fossil fuels, supposed to come from, when you look at the evening rush hour, on a cold day, in the dark?

Or are we back to the 200 mile extension cord?

28 posted on 09/10/2019 8:09:18 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Ken H

Hell...

Where the cars are French
The food is British
The police are German
The lovers are Swiss

....and the whole thing is run by Italians


29 posted on 09/10/2019 8:09:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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30 posted on 09/10/2019 8:10:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The media is just going to continue ignoring the issue with the battery packs aren’t they? The batteries only last so long, used or not. They need to be replaced at exorbitant pricing, and they are toxic waste. Plus, just like oil, we will have to be friendly with hostile regimes to extract the lithium.


31 posted on 09/10/2019 8:11:07 AM PDT by KobraKai
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32 posted on 09/10/2019 8:11:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ken H

I am shocked, shocked! to find Renault produces ...cars..................


33 posted on 09/10/2019 8:11:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: DannyTN

“How big is a skwid?”

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/29729/the-worlds-most-important-electric-car-is-launching-now-and-its-not-a-porsche-or-tesla


34 posted on 09/10/2019 8:12:48 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Pontiac
The Escort was replaced by the Focus by 1998/1999.

The Escort actually dates back to 1967 (below), although the first two generations were not sold in the USA; the first US one was based on the third generation that came out in 1980.


35 posted on 09/10/2019 8:13:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: AU72

You can burn your fuel at the power plant many miles away, or you can burn your fuel under the hood.

Either way, you’re burning fuel.

There’s no such thing as an “electric” car.

There are gasoline fueled cars, diesel fueled cars, coal fueled cars, methane fueled cars, uranium fueled cars, hydrogen (fusion) fueled cars ...


36 posted on 09/10/2019 8:14:18 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Moonman62

The Yugo was actually a FIAT with a nameplate change..................


37 posted on 09/10/2019 8:14:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: DannyTN

Kwid is an existing model, about 145” long. At least it’s bigger than a Smart car.

The smallest current Mini Cooper is 151” long.


38 posted on 09/10/2019 8:16:06 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

“Electric cars have no souls, and are driven by people without souls.

You might as well get a lobotomy.”

The buggy drivers of last century could make a MUCH better case... ;-)

Electric cars are fine. It’s a technology, not an ideology. Heck, I always wanted a nuclear powered car!


39 posted on 09/10/2019 8:16:51 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: InterceptPoint

You should not in that case buy a Ford F-450 Super Duty.


40 posted on 09/10/2019 8:17:31 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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