Damning new report finds nearly all major car companies are actively sabotaging world’s efforts to avoid catastrophic global warming, and Japan companies are the worst.
Well to be fair, trying to sell anything with the word mini in it in America is it uphill struggle; if there’s one thing us Americans hate, it’s walking uphill.
Unfortunately the SUV cancer is coming hard in Italy as well. Btw, small cars are super usefull and confortable for daily commuting and to park them easily and anywhere without warring.
You say that as if Americans don’t want kei cars, but we do. Even rural off-roading Youtubers (who would probably be revealed to be ultraconservative if they didn’t keep their politics out of their videos) love things like Suzuki Samurais and Subaru Sambars.
They aren’t anywhere unless they’re 20+ years old. For those, it depends on the state as to whether you can register them for road use, and on which roads (some forbid highway use) .
Maybe in the US, but in Asia, a huge portion of sales for Honda, Toyota and Suzuki are for their modified kei cars. Even so, they still don’t seem interested in releasing their electric models there. This gap is currently filled by Chinese EV manufacturers.
Japanese car manufacturers actually sell a lot of EVs… in Japan. They don’t seem to be interested in selling those mini EVs abroad.
Well to be fair, trying to sell anything with the word mini in it in America is it uphill struggle; if there’s one thing us Americans hate, it’s walking uphill.
Or just walking.
Unless they’re made by the Brits or Italians for some reason.
Unfortunately the SUV cancer is coming hard in Italy as well. Btw, small cars are super usefull and confortable for daily commuting and to park them easily and anywhere without warring.
Also, bigger cars are taxed more.
Especially walking uphill both ways
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You say that as if Americans don’t want kei cars, but we do. Even rural off-roading Youtubers (who would probably be revealed to be ultraconservative if they didn’t keep their politics out of their videos) love things like Suzuki Samurais and Subaru Sambars.
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Speak for your own state.
They aren’t anywhere unless they’re 20+ years old. For those, it depends on the state as to whether you can register them for road use, and on which roads (some forbid highway use) .
25+ years old (just like importing any other foreign-market car, tiny or not).
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They sell slightly modified kei cars in other countries, but not these electric models.
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Maybe in the US, but in Asia, a huge portion of sales for Honda, Toyota and Suzuki are for their modified kei cars. Even so, they still don’t seem interested in releasing their electric models there. This gap is currently filled by Chinese EV manufacturers.
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