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hey everybody this is Sean with The Verge I'm about to hop into this the electromechanical solo Eevee let's go for a ride so what exactly am I in right now this is the electromechanical solo Eevee it is a tiny three-wheeled electric car it costs about $20,000 as a range of about a hundred miles at a top speed around 80 miles an hour it is weird it is this is only one of 18 belt so far four of them have actually already been delivered and electromechanical is just this company out of Vancouver who decided to build this weird little Eevee some other expect you might be curious about it takes about three to six hours to charge out of a standard wall outlet or 220v outlet it has a 16 kilowatt batt heart battery so pretty small but again good enough for about a hundred mile range which is pretty close to some of the Eevee's that are out there inside you find basically all the kinds of accoutrement you would want inside a normal car we've got a radio we've got air conditioning free shot wipers I mean like it's not like it's missing anything it's just less of a car than most cars the company comes from a group of people who were a part of inner mechanika which is an old shop that used to refurbed Porsches really does kind of look like a normal car from the front and then you turn and all of a sudden it looks like a a slipper or a mohawk I don't know what you really call it the company that this most directly relates to is Elio motors who made a three wheel gasoline car that has really fallen flat they've run into so many troubles trying to get that on the road and who knows if electromechanical will face those same kinds of troubles I think what I like most about this car is not the way it drives or how it looks or anything like that it's what it represents this is another example of how the drop in price of electric motor technology and battery technology is changing everything everything from something like this to electric scooters to electric bikes it's making so many people with weird ideas finally able to challenge those weird ideas and like try to put them on the road and that's never really been possible before I mean we are really seeing a revolution here electric vehicles may only make up 1% of the market so far but we're seeing more weird ideas like this come out every year it is extremely strange to be in a car that's this small I've been in cars that are this low that's before race cars that are this low before it but this is something totally different and it feels like you're so invisible then that scares me a little bit I haven't had a chance to get it up to his top speed about 85 miles an hour it has an 82 horsepower which I guess I'm feeling I mean anything below 100 is a bit hard to register even in a small car like this also not very quiet in the cabin I don't know if you can hear that the whirr of the motor comes right through physics from right back there I really don't know who it's for other than people who's out twenty thousand dollars the burned one of my favorite things that is driving anything that draws attention and everybody keeps looking at this and wondering what the hell is this connector country so that was a drive of the electric mechanicus solo Eevee for all the weird electric cars electric scooters self-driving cars everything we've seen at CES this week go to youtube.com slash The Verge click Subscribe go to the verge comm slash CES for everything else we've seen and that's it thanks for watching no look at me so that was a ride in the electromechanical solo-e v4 sorry