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Gun Manufacturer Kalashnikov Takes Aim At Tesla With CV-1
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Is Russian gun manufacturer Kalashnikov really targeting Tesla with this retro, electric concept car?
Kalashnikov’s first electric concept car premiered at the international forum “Army 2018” in the Moscow region at the airfield in Kubinka. It is coined the “CV-1” and is based on a retro kit that goes by the name of “IZH-Kombi.” The kit follows design cues from the old Russian Moskvich-Izh.
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The CV-1 features a 90-kWh battery pack and has a cruising range of 350 km (217 miles). It churns out 220 kW (295 horsepower) and is capable of accelerating from zero to 100 kilometers per hour in 6 seconds.
We’re not sure how this is really aiming to be a Tesla killer. However, reports say that the car’s engineers hope for it to compete with Tesla. Kalashnikov spokeswoman Sofia Ivanova shared with the RBC news website:
We’re talking about competing precisely with Tesla because it’s currently a successful electric vehicle project. We expect to at least keep up with it.
Interestingly, RBC also pointed out that Ivanova wasn’t able to provide any information about how the CV-1 is better than a Tesla vehicle. For now, the car is simply being used as a platform to test the company’s new technology.
For those who love retro sports cars like the Dodge Challenger, as well as Tesla’s all-electric lineup, this car might satisfy. However, at this point, it’s obviously just a dream in the making. We’ll be honest to say that InsideEVs doesn’t often stumble upon Tesla fans who love the Challenger, but there may be some exceptions out there.
What do you think? Share your opinions with us in the comment section below.
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Source: Kalashnikov Media, The Moscow Times
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17 Comments on "Gun Manufacturer Kalashnikov Takes Aim At Tesla With CV-1"
“Takes aim at Tesla” these companies that keep saying this need to take aim at just making a car that will sell.
Takes aim since it’s a gun maker. Haha
It comes with 2 assault rifles as standard.
No arguing for parking spots, and road rage is taken to another level 🙂
Is this is the Tesla “Killer”, that EVerybody has been talking about?
I can’t wait to “gun the engine” in the Kalashnikov CV-1 EV.
https://goo.gl/images/XQ8sf9
Putin is gunning for Tesla Model 3 Panel Gap “fit and finish”.
With a little more work, Kalashnikov might have a shot at it.
Cañonerov!
Question is, will our serial anti-Tesla trolls now jump on promoting and fantasizing that this vehicle will slow the Tesla rEVolution?
Only if the car has a freezer where chill some vodka bottles. PROST!
Russia is a mafia state. Their economy is a joke. Mass adoption of electric vehicles will decimate Russia’s puny economy.
Now that is one ugly car.
NT Trabant did FSU car revival better (still on my top 10 list of all time favorite EV concepts):
http://www.trabant-nt.de/374/en/the-project/trabant-nt.aspx
Nice its like a cartoon face with those big headlights and smile grill haha
As always, hope they succeed and bring more choises. With the design, it will be for a limited number of car owners.
I think as long as they get the technology right. . There is hope. Just offer different designs. The front was kind if cool. The rest. . Not so much 🙂
I like Challengers. Put an electric motor and a big battery and I’ll take one! I like that at least this concept is a wagon, or combi for our european friends. It really is the ideal form factor.
Well, technically they are competing with Tesla if they make an EV. Any competition has at least one winner and one looser, and they say that they hope to be better (others hope for world peace or that global warming might turn out to be a hoax).
There are incumbent ICE manufacturers who apparently don’t even try to compete, so…
A 90 kWh battery pack is hitherto not very common, even among the announcements, and if it has a decent range and is affordable, it will sell regardless of looks (as it has lower TCO). “Made in Russia”, will bring for sure some sales to government and municipalities.
I just wonder: Will they churn out one of those cars from the factory faster than a machine gun?
While it is very hard to make a Lada seem like a good idea, this car is msking that case😄
Deadlier than AK, son.