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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @02:26PM (1 child)
Quite. I think this might be the GNU/Linux of cars,
Nice way to try and market to Free Software fans. Next you'll try to talk us all into buying old East German Trabis. Which might make sense, as we can always replace a dying motor with one from the push mower in the garage.
I'd take a Tesla over this bucket of bolts any day of the week, with the added bonus of not pumping money into Putin's kleptocracy.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday August 24 2018, @04:24PM
Teslas's cars, while containing some free software (which they persistently refuse to release the source code for in violation of the licenses under which they received said software), use that software to support their proprietary software stack that operates their DRM and forced-updates.
If that's what you want, you aren't a free software fan. You don't speak for us.