Do electric cars count as technology? They certainly don’t count as public transit. The Leapmotor S01 looks cool as hell and has a range of about 220 miles. It has a self driving feature on par with Tesla’s current “Full Self Driving” SAE Level 2 automation with a possibility of an upgrade to Level 3 automation, all while costing less than half as much as Tesla’s cheapest car (which doesn’t even include self driving at that price).

they are indeed tech

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Yeah, the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV looks super cool, if that’s the one you mean. I also am super into those $1500 changli ones you can get on Alibaba. They’re so cute and little!

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Can like, I important one and use it?

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The changli ones for $1500 or so can be imported to the US or Canada as an NEV in the US or an LSV in Canada and are road legal when capped at 25 mph in many (not all) jurisdictions. Check your local laws.

The mini EV, as far as I can tell is a no-go here in Canada but I’m no lawyer. And I don’t really know about the US. I would say probably not as it’s basically a real car. There are tons of restrictions on cars under 15 years old in Canada and on cars under 25 years old in the US that would likely make it impossible.

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Apparently the newer ones than the one Jason Torchinski from Jalopnik got have a low gear for climbing hills!

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:xicko:

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Wonder how long it will take for the Cars and Comrades guys to chat about this? @CarsAndComrades

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I just saw this while we’re recording, so I’ll bring it up to the other guys.

First thought is it looks shitty and impractical and not that sporty.

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all while costing less than half as much as Tesla’s cheapest car (which doesn’t even include self driving at that price).

Tesla full self driving costs $200 USD per month subscription which I’m pretty sure is just a starving worker remote driving your car through Google Stadia.

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Fuck me, they charge you $10,000 to enable you to pay them an additional $200 a month? Holy shit. This thing has it bundled into the price, and seems to be equally competent.

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It’s one or the other, not both. Pay 10k to have it forever OR pay $200/mo

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Oh. Well, that’s… Marginally better.

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