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posted by martyb on Friday August 24 2018, @06:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-car-looks-like-a-robot-snack dept.

Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled a sleek electric concept car that its creators say will compete with Elon Musk's market leader Tesla.

Based on the body of a Soviet hatchback Izh, Kalashnikov's CV-1 electric vehicle's 90 kilowatt hour battery gives it a range of 350 kilometers. The arms company says the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 6 seconds.

The brand, best known for the AK-47 machine gun, on Thursday presented the retro-looking pale blue prototype, the CV-1 at a defence expo outside Moscow.

Earlier this week, online users ridiculed Kalashnikov's new bipedal combat robot. The golden-colour machine, reportedly named "Igoryok" in production stages, immediately became a subject of social media memes.

Is the car going to be a threat to troubled Tesla?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by coolgopher on Friday August 24 2018, @07:34AM (2 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Friday August 24 2018, @07:34AM (#725685)

    I would say that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but... I chuckled. Then again, if its as reliable and easy to manufacture (and purchase) as an AK-47 it could still become a serious hit.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Unixnut on Friday August 24 2018, @08:42AM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Friday August 24 2018, @08:42AM (#725704)

    I don't know, I quite like the look of it. It has a retro-futuristic vibe going. I never liked the look of Teslas quite frankly, finding them rather bland and cheap looking.

    I don't know what the dashboard of the Kalashnicar looks like, but I hope they don't make it as bad as the dashboard of a Tesla, which basically violates every good practice in car ergonomics, while looking cheap and tacky to boot.

    Either way, I hope they build them, the more manufacturers making cars, the more options for people out there, and choice is always good for customers. Although looking at the geopolitical situation in the world, I somehow doubt the Russian cars would be available over here for me to consider them an option.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 24 2018, @06:29PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday August 24 2018, @06:29PM (#725961)

    I would love to rent one for a day, if it looks like that yet can silently smoke all the idiot posers (giant pickups, fakexotics, or souped-up rice burners) at the traffic lights. 6s 0-60 is not quite enough to make them rethink their stupidity, though.