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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Ah, well I got my info from a Car and Driver article.
https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...2019/?slide=10
Anyhow, I'd think a few bits of curved tubular steel and 1 less wheel would substantially reduce the cost over an intricately designed and machined unibody vehicle.
UTVs start around $3k and some seat many people. You'd think a 2-seater trike would be a piece of cake.
I built a reverse trike in highschool using tubular aluminum, custom machined bicycle wheels, lead acid batteries, and a 2hp DC motor and controller. |
That is the 2019 Versa. The new one is more.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2020...n-versa-price/
Curved tubular steel is cheap in tooling costs but expensive in labor. They make sense for low volume products.
Unibodies are very expensive to tool up but inexpensive to build and assemble because it is almost completely done by robots.