It is the dream of three-wheeled, cheap electric cars that is currently rusting away in a scrapyard in Arizona, USA. The cars are too expensive to repair.
At an auto wrecker in the city of Gilbert, Arizona, hundreds of electric cars are currently rusting away. In fact, there are so many of them that they are stacked in piles.
It is the result of entrepreneur Jerry Kroll's dream. A dream that would turn out to be a nightmare because the cars are too expensive to repair.
However, the story begins a while ago with the small car manufacturer Myers Motor NmG, which was convinced that it was possible to build a small, cheap electric car for city traffic.
However, there was no success, and in 2010 the whole project shut down. This is where Jerry Kroll comes into the picture. He thought he could do it with the same starting point.
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So he bought the rights to Myers Motors' concept and financed his own version of the car. ElectraMeccanica Solo came on the market in 2018. Conceived as 'a small, smart city car'.
But the problems persisted. Because while the reception was cool, the complaints from the owners of the more than 500 cars that ElectraMeccanica managed to send onto the street piled up.
The problems in the cars turned out to be so extensive that neither Jerry Kroll nor his engineers saw any other way out than to buy all the cars back. Read more about it here .
In the end, the entire project was sold to the competitor, the electric car manufacturer Xos. And here it was seen as by far the cheapest solution to scrap all of ElectraMeccanica's cars. And so that is what is happening now at the shredder in Gilbert, Arizona.
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