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Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Luxury vs Functionality (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @04:04PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @04:04PM (#725869)

  Parent post is marked as "insightful" for thinking a car that obviously has terrible aerodynamics might actually have better battery life

  Eh?, for 'normal' driving speeds in urban areas (and the typical stop-start-stop-start-stop-arrrgh! driving pattern) your 'terrible aerodynamics' become mostly irrelevant for fuel efficiency/battery life.
  Having once navigated through London traffic for two hours in a car capable of doing over 168mph but at best hitting 30mph I can tell you it's aerodynamics didn't help fuel efficiency in that situation.
  We don't all travel down super highways basking in the bright familiar sun..

     

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