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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:40AM (#725702)

    Even if cost of ownership and repairability for the box on wheels were orders of magnitude more favorable?