In the rural suburbs of Hiroshima, a Japanese startup is trying to kick start the nation’s electric vehicle market with the smallest, cheapest car it can possibly make.
KG Motors has developed a battery-powered one-seater that more resembles a futuristic golf cart than it does a modern EV, much less a traditional car. And yet well over half of the 3,300 units it plans to deliver in 2027 have already been pre-sold to customers.
KG Motors CEO Kazunari Kusunoki with the mibot.
Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg
Incidentally, that puts it on track to sell more EVs in Japan than the world’s biggest automaker,
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