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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=31331" target="_blank">Electric cars made in Canada can't be driven here</a> (click to view)

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<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-03-16 21:48:26
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[RUEZ]

Well they are definately getting their story out there. This is the third time I've read this story in the last couple of months.

[stemmer]

With a top speed of 40 kph no wonder they are kept off of the road. They would have an hard time keeping up with bicycles...!!!!

[Ripcat]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Well they are definately getting their story out there. This is the third time I've read this story in the last couple of months.

lol

Thats what I was thinking.

[Ripcat]

stemmer stemmer:

With a top speed of 40 kph no wonder they are kept off of the road. They would have an hard time keeping up with bicycles...!!!!

Yes, if they could get that to 60 kph with average acceleration from a stop then they should be good for city streets. At 40 kph they could restrict the flow of traffic.

The US has alot more, and vastly bigger, gated communities, many with tight regulations on vehicle traffic, where the ZENO would be welcome so I can see why it would sell well there. It's more of a pimped up golf cart than a car.

[Wally_Sconce]

the radio is extra?!?!?!?!?!

[mtbr]

Sounds like a typical Canadian Car sells for 16000 grand....if they did sell it here it would be 20 .

[Wally_Sconce]

no need for that kind of price. An electric motor greatly simpliries the design and manufacture of a car.

[Robair]

I don't get it. A scooter is okay but these things aren't?

[jafo2k]

$1:

Well they are definately getting their story out there. This is the third time I've read this story in the last couple of months.

See it again. http://iwantazenn.com

[Streaker]

Robair Robair:

I don't get it. A scooter is okay but these things aren't?

Good question.

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Seems like Transport Canada is in league with the insurance companies.

[sasquatch2]

Ripcat

$1:

It's more of a pimped up golf cart than a car.

A golf cart is not street legal so why should these be. Such things a windshield defrosters, and windshield wipers/washers come to mind. Some clown would endeaver to drive one of these in a blizzard.

[Ripcat]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Some clown would endeaver to drive one of these in a blizzard.

How socialist of you to feel the need to protect idiots from themselves.

[BartSimpson]

Ripcat Ripcat:

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Some clown would endeaver to drive one of these in a blizzard.

How socialist of you to feel the need to protect idiots from themselves.

Just me, I could care less about idiots who want to endanger themselves, but I would be concerned about the hazard these people would inevitably create trying to drive these pitiful vehicles in traffic. Go-karts are not allowed in traffic for the same reasons these glorified golf carts should not be allowed in traffic: they present a hazard to other drivers.

[Ripcat]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Ripcat Ripcat:

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Some clown would endeaver to drive one of these in a blizzard.

How socialist of you to feel the need to protect idiots from themselves.

Just me, I could care less about idiots who want to endanger themselves, but I would be concerned about the hazard these people would inevitably create trying to drive these pitiful vehicles in traffic. Go-karts are not allowed in traffic for the same reasons these glorified golf carts should not be allowed in traffic: they present a hazard to other drivers.

By that reasoning, at least 25% of the people already driving on the road should no longer be driving.

Anyways, sasq has a way of quoting a partial post and then making a comment that would make it appear as if the quoted said something they didn't....

Also, the ZENN looks no smaller than a SMART car and those are allowed on highways...so my original comments in their entirety still stand...if the top speed can be increased to 60 kph with adequate acceleration then I see no reason why they can't be allowed on city streets where speed limits are 60 kph and lower.