SONDORS
While electrification is currently spreading like
wildfire in the automotive industry, acquiring an all-electric or hybrid car
can still be a hit to the wallet. Sondors is a company willing to change all
that, but only if you give it a helping hand.
Sondors is a small crowdfunding business that plans
to build the most attractive, affordable, and practical electric car ever made,
with a base price of US$ 10,000. Moreover, the company’s mission is to offer an
electric car that makes sense to the average person, its reasoning being that
expensive products won’t help lower greenhouse emissions since few will
actually afford to buy them.
According to Sondors, most electric cars are
replicas of existing vehicles. That’s why they came up with a three-wheel
format, designed from the ground up to express simplicity. What’s more
interesting is that the company says this layout creates less drag, which in
turn reduces the amount of energy required to move it.
Although there’s no info about the vehicle’s
powertrain, Sondors say it will be available in three range options, varying
from 50, to 100, and to 200 miles. The charging process will
be done easy, via a normal socket.
In order to make the car a reality, the company need US$ 1 million, but Sondors isn’t at its first product. They’ve actually
manufactured an electric bike for $500 in the past after raising US$ 10 million.