The ElectraMeccanica Solo set out to change the world with a small, cheap EV. Here's how it all came crashing down.
  • 8adgerEnglish
    22•2 months ago

    I was also told by someone that worked there that the whole problem with them was a software issue in the motor controller. The manufacturer of that controller would not work with them on a fix and management didn’t want to replace them.

    • @[email protected]
      8•2 months ago

      So the whole company folded because they didn’t demand access to the source code they put in their vehicles.

  • 8adgerEnglish
    13•2 months ago

    I tried to buy a few of them for virus components but they wouldn’t sell them to me saying they had to all be crushed.

    • @islesEnglish
      11•2 months ago

      Gotta love the mindset “if I can’t have it, no one can!”

      • @XeroxCool
        10•2 months ago

        They probably have VINs. Things get really weird and official once VINd

  • @No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston
    2•2 months ago

    All of this without a Maques Brownlee review, wonder if it’s to do with building an unrepairable EV…