I was a member of this forum several years ago. I even know several people in this Forum .
Thank you for all of your chats and conversation on building electric car that I really enjoy.
Finally guys, we did built the car in 2012. The ElektrikCar team built Tucuxi successfully in Indonesia and the first owner made it into a “successful” crash as well. …
No people were injured. The two passengers were saved unscathed and batteries did well. The car design made the occupants and batteries protected during severe crash.
Now, Tucuxi (pn. too-koo-she) sports cars are back home in the US. We are going to have Tucuxi on US roads and streets soon. There are several orders already coming and we welcome Forum Members to own it as well.
We are the result of the under-current electric car movement in the US.
Including you guys!! Electrification goes on. No one kills it !!!
[QUOTE=Editor;15631]How do you feel the EV market will develop in the short to medium term?[/QUOTE]
Thanks for your question. As of now, the EV market in the US is kind of slow to develop. It needs a driver to make the electric car market booming.
Is the US alone or slow to develop it’s market? Not necessarily.
There is a lot of enthusiasm in Asia right now especially in China and Indonesia. However, this enthusiasm does not translate into increased volume of electric cars on the street. Similarly, Europe is supposed to be the countries that really need electric cars but the economic crisis prohibit such acquisition.
Is it all bleak for the EV then? Again, not necessarily. There should be moderate increase in volume in the near future. However, that increase should be started by society being more educated on the EV operation or the EV’s themselves are getting much cheaper.
We, at the ElektrikCar, strive to allow EV’s to be more affordable and that means increased vehicle orders . How many? We could say at around 1000-2000 orders should make our cars in the $ 40,000 range or cheaper.
We are designing and building EV completely different from our competitors by bootstrapping the start up, spending low capital investment and deploying high tech computer aided tools. We did build it.
