The Olinia Uno is a planned six-passenger car that can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge. It is expected to go on sale next summer for about 150,000 Mexican pesos or roughly $8,500, according to a press release.
The car is designed for urban settings and has a top speed of 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour.
Unsurprisingly, some U.S. lawmakers are already trying to stop those cars from coming over the border.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Haley Stevens recently introduced the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act, which aims to ban connected cars built or designed in China, as well as other adversarial countries like Russia and Iran, from entering the U.S.
This is something Ford CEO Jim Farley called for earlier this year.
“We should not let them into our country,” Farley said during an appearance on Fox & Friends, according to Bloomberg. “Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country, and for us to lose that to those exports would be devastating to our country.”
Capitalists and CEOs: It’s not free market when I have to compete!
It’s a golf cart. But these have utility around Mexico city.
"We should not let them into our country,” Farley said during an appearance on Fox & Friends, according to Bloomberg. “Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country, and for us to lose that to those exports would be devastating to our country.”
Ford CEO Jim Farley is so full of shit. Ford is making trucks in Mexico and Canada and no longer has lower cost options, just big stupid trucks with plastic engine oil pans.
“Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country
Fucking what?
Yeah, I was wondering if he managed to say that with a straight face…
plastic engine oil pans.
I had to do a double-take. Holy crap you’re not kidding. Considering that it’s a feature of metal pans to deform (instead of cracking or breaking) when colliding with something, switching to a brittle material is just asinine. WTF, Ford?
Farley also told media there is a shortage of mechanics at car dealers making $120,000 a year. No flat rate Ford mechanic makes that.
Farley lies so much he should get into politics.
You can also find videos of Ford mechanics finding new vehicles with cobbled brackets because of parts shortages.
Volkswagen has been doing that for a least a decade or more. I had a 2018 alltrack which had one. At least in that case there was another thick plastic skid plate covering it and other parts. The biggest PITA is the high probability of stripping the drain plug.
I mean, it’s not as bad as their timing belts running in oil
And despite known major issues, they just keep selling the bad designs. This is how they killed the Fiesta and Focus, once the number one selling cars. Every single had had repeated transmission failures.
Yeah, nobody makes vehicles in the US or Canada that aren’t made in part in the US, Canada, and Mexico. That’s just the post NAFTA manufacturing environment. Labor heavy and high pollution components are made in Mexico while skilled labor and assembled parts are made in the Great Lakes region crossing borders as is convenient.
The suburb where I live is closer to rural than urban, but I could totally see getting one of these for commuting and errands around town.
Just give me an upgraded $10K version that can do 50 mph instead of 50 km/h, because once I get to the end of my street I’m turning into traffic comprised of F-150s and Escalades already going faster than that (illegally).
Yeah I think the range and top speed need to be upped a little bit. 77miles is more like 50 if you don’t want to charge to 100 or leave it to 0 every time you drive. 50mph is probably closer to a real city speed yeah it prolly doesn’t need to go that fast 80% of the time but sometimes you need to be able to go faster or else you can only travel around on very limited roads.
If it were faster, it would be classified as a different vehicle and be subject to safety requirements that would double or triple the price.
Mexico has 36M cars currently on the road. I would be more worried if I was an American selling into the Mexican market
Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Haley Stevens recently introduced the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act, which aims to ban connected cars built or designed in China, as well as other adversarial countries like Russia and Iran, from entering the U.S.
Love a bipartisan commitment to bad economic policy
connected cars built or designed in China
Only the ones from China though. Every other car going forward will be “connected”. That’s not the thing they’re worried about though.
“Protect us from Chinese cars”, fuck these dipshits. Have they ever considered protecting us from crushing poverty or environmental collapse? “OH MUH GOD ITS A CHINA CAR!! TAKE COVER!!!”
They are portecting “the economy”, that is, elon musk 😅… Lol.
ban connected cars
Does that mean that unconnected Chinese cars are OK? Talk about a win-win… just pull the SIM / antenna.
I like it but if it only goes 31 mph, then it’s not really a car. IMHO. People drive around in golf carts in my neighborhood all of the time. I’m pretty sure they’re nearly the same thing.
Mexico (at least up north where I e been) has little neighborhoods like in the US, but they all have their own stores and stuff. Like a mini suburb in a subdivision.
31 mph would be plenty.
They also have a robust “microbus” economy. These are basically private individuals running little routes in the neighborhood and between them, to some of the bigger shops.
This vehicle could be well suited for this and the micros are as ancient as they are ubiquitous. It’s a good little chunk of traffic. Of that’s what they’re targeting, then it strikes me as clever. Bunch of folks mostly running errands.
It’ll be neat to see how it does.
Probably a categorisation thing to make them more accessible. In Europe there’s a class of vehicle called Motor Quadricycle which are subject to very relaxed taxes and regulation compared to cars but have to meet very strict regulations about size, speed, capacity, etc. In France they call them San Permits because you literally don’t need a driver’s license to drive one of you were born before 1990, and anyone else aged 14+ only need to have had a minimal training session (those numbers might be a bit odd but you get the idea). A lot of people who simply couldn’t get a license to drive a car can still get one of these - for better or worse.
My mom lives in an “active adult community” with a big golf course, so EVERYBODY has a golf cart. The speed limit is only 25, and the carts mix with the cars equally.
But in the last year or two, there have been these new, souped up models that go far faster than the speed limit. I’d estimate that these new carts are getting up to 40+ mph, maybe faster.
It goes 50 kph, which is the speed limit in many cities. It’s clearly aimed at people who need a city car and won’t be taking it on the freeway.
Mexico is cool
Sheinbaum seems to be doing a pretty good job
Mexico in pretty warm
Yeah, I mean, they are the source of (nearly?) all avocados. Can’t beat 'em…
Sounds like terrorism to me. Another good reason for the US to invade and install a puppet. /s obviously. Fuck the USA.
Finally a good looking EV
Put a pop up camper top on it and I’ll take two
Top speed of 31mph, and with a camper on top, it will be even a bit slower than that. 77 miles of range also isn’t a lot for something you want to go camping in. If your campground is more than 38 miles from the nearest charger, you’re just shit out of luck – not to mention that your camper on top will also significantly reduce range…
Can you fit fold out solar panels and a power station in it?
FTA:
It also has enough space to transport someone in a wheelchair and be charged using regular power outlets at home, with a plug similar to what you would use for a microwave or refrigerator.
So yes, and also, your power station doesn’t even need a special EV charging port adapter, just an extension cord.
Yeah, top speed ain’t high, but uh, just park, camp for a sunny day or two, recharge your car.
Infinite range at tortoise speeds, at least when the sun is out… which I hear is fairly often, in Mexico, and/or when most people would want to go on a vacation.
EDIT
Ok so from here, it has a 14.7 kWh battery, in the car.
So, roughly realistically, to fully recharge the battery from empty, in a single sunny day, you’d need something like 8 500W panels, or 10 400W panels, or 12 300W panels.
Or, if you assume 2 sunny days, half the panel count.
Now, that many solar panels + power station is probably about half as expensive as the car itself, but you absolutely could fit them into this thing, or just mount a rack on top and strap them down, fold them out when you’re camped.
31mph top speed, and you need to stop and wait for a day or two to recharge every 77 miles.
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At that point, you might legitimately be making faster progress by riding a bicycle, even one carrying camping gear.
Not everybody can handle multiple days of bicycling.
A lot more people can handle multiple days of driving.
A van can also move multiple people, or a lot more stuff.
Seems perfect to me, if you live within around 60 miles of a nice weekend vacay spot… maybe I’m spoiled by growing up in the PNW, but basically just most of it is within 60 miles of a decent spot for a weekend vacay.
Even if its further away… just do things like an old fashioned road trip, plan out your travel times and routes and days, such that it all lines up. If that means a day or two in a slightly less interesting spot while you’re recharging… who cares? Bring beer, a deck of cards, a horseshoe ring or bocci ball kit or something.
It sounds shitty and awesome and exactly what I want.
It’s a bar of soap.
The “good looking” EV:
lol
Would look great lifted on 21" rims.
yep. that’s the one they were talking about.
I wonder if this is being aimed at a replacement for the ubiquitous bocho, or original VW bug, that still dominates the intracity car fleets of the many smaller cities and towns in the mountains Central region. If it’s rear wheel drive that’s my guess, those things only ever go on nigh-vertical narrow cobblestone roads in dense urban environments so low range and slow speeds won’t matter at all.
50 kmh isn’t much, even for city driving.
50 is higher than most people can drive in a city because of traffic.
My best guess is it will be part of their public transport system. As an example, in Mexico City they have small vans that run up and down a hill but spend most of their time at the base of the hill waiting to go back up. They could charge for a bit while they wait at the bottom.
It’s plenty for most cities in the world.
I know in the US everyone’s driving at 120mph through tight city streets while shooting children, but the rest of the world isn’t like that.
India?
Are you asking if people in India go fast, or if I’m in India?
Sorry, I just mean that I heard people drive like absolute maniacs there.
People do drive like maniacs in many parts of India, but people don’t drive 50 km/hr in a city unless they have a death wish and enough money to pay a lot of traffic fines.
Ah ok, yes that is the case, but a lot if its from the lack of written rules of the road that actually get followed, the state of disrepair of the vehicles, plus the state of some of the roads … rather than the all-out speed people are going at
Hello from New Zealand.
Hello from Vietnam.
So I guess New Zealand also like charging all over the place at speeds more likely to kill pedestrians?
TBH the only city I’ve been in where most of the traffic is at over 50mph is Singapore, and that wasn’t a good thing.
So I guess New Zealand also like charging all over the place at speeds more likely to kill pedestrians?
Well yeah, but the reason I said it is that my city is on an isthmus and the easiest way to get from one side to the other is by highway.
ok, I’d say to try doing a typical journey including a bit of the highway, but cap your speed … and see how much time difference it really makes.
Most people here are chilled about getting to work at 30-50kph, it’s a mindset.
That’s more than enough speed in an urban area. Safety is more important than speed.
Considering how.much people look at their phones instead of the road I think 30km/h should be the max in cities.
Most of Japan’s cities are 20-30. There are some bigger, multi-lane roads that are 40 or 50. It kinda depends on road size, curvatures, and how residential the area is.
Can it do 50 up a long gentle hill with 6 occupants or 50 on a flat well paved road, a slight tail wind and a jockey who just took a shit behind the wheel?
Dublin city centre is 30kph limit.
Car brain alerta… Car brain alert.
Speed limit in cities in Denmark is 50 km/h with many places being 40 or lower, so it would be quite relevant here
Well apart from most of the major arteries and ring roads typically being 60 or 70 km/h in larger towns and cities… You are not going to be very popular puttering down “Ringvejen” at 50. The occasional tractor or other machinery causes enough bunching up as is…
hehe true, but I’m not saying people need to drive 50 on ringvejen.
I’m instead saying that 50 km/h is sufficient for many places (but not all) in cities.
But why?
The car is designed for urban settings and has a top speed of 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour.
It sounds like maybe a 25kWh battery? Why can’t it have a real top speed like every other actual car?
Why can’t it have a real top speed like every other actual car?
They skimped out on safety and crumple zones in order to make it lighter and cheaper, but that makes it extremely unsafe at high speeds.
Because then it would not cost $8500.
China has already solved that with better cars for the same price, but they are not being sold to us
China is not selling any car outside of China for $8500.
It’d likely fall apart at those speeds.
No way it’ll be allowed in the US, our automotive industry is terrified of legitimate competition.
wait where’s the rear window
Where we’re going, we don’t need
roadsa rear window.
Its a golf cart…
I love Alina! She’s by far the most coolest pornst… Oh the car looks cool.
125KM :\
