Cheap EVs From Failed Startup Are Piling Up in Arizona Scrapyard
Cheap EVs From Failed Startup Are Piling Up in Arizona Scrapyard
The ElectraMeccanica Solo set out to change the world with a small, cheap EV. Here's how it all came crashing down.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38596459
I was also told by someone that worked there that the whole problem with them was a software issue in the motor controller. The manufacturer of that controller would not work with them on a fix and management didn't want to replace them.
So the whole company folded because they didn't demand access to the source code they put in their vehicles.
I tried to buy a few of them for virus components but they wouldn't sell them to me saying they had to all be crushed.
Gotta love the mindset "if I can't have it, no one can!"
They probably have VINs. Things get really weird and official once VINd
Ah…I really liked these. I’ve only ever seen one in person. Such a shame.
Well at least one of them will have a rather curious revival coming up:
All of this without a Maques Brownlee review, wonder if it's to do with building an unrepairable EV...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSQNVKhQqOw
The Aging Wheels review is probably better anyway.