Where do you get that? MSRP is $32,780 and you can get up to $7,500 back in credits/rebates to make it as low as $25,280.
This is some information from an article I came across in my research of Low Speed Vehicles.
I found it pertinent to our conversation here.
March 2008, "World Wide Situation of Low Speed Vehicles"
Prepared for the Ministry of Transportation of Quebec
by The Quebec Advanced Transportation Institute
"The objective of this document is to provide the most recent information on the evolution of LSV in the regions studied and to identify the trends toward the integration of these vehicles in the ordinary traffic flow. The United States, certain European Union countries, Japan and Australia were targeted because of their experiences with this type of vehicle. Technical standards, traffic rules, the market, road accident data will be studied in detail and the opinions of specialists will be reported."
"During our research and interviews with the government authorities in the concerned countries, no exceptional accidents or worrisome statistics regarding the LSV were brought to our attention. In most cases, it does not raise major concerns in the countries and states that authorized its use on public roads."
"The only road accident statistics available are French and are provided by the Observatoire national interminist?riel de la S?curit? Routi?re (OSNIR). They show that the rate of LSV involved in traffic accidents is low. The number of victims is also low. The vast majority of accidents have been recorded on the 90 km/h networks, mainly on roads that connect rural areas, where 82% of deaths were recorded in 2005 as opposed to 17% in urban areas. LSV have four times less victims than mopeds."
"Many experiments in a real use environment demonstrated the interest and reliability of LSV. The conclusions of these experiments on various continents and in various use environments were positive (improvement of air quality, speed reduction) and all state that the LSV provides a mobility alternative that is ecological and complements the global offer."
According to the last table and figures, we note that:
? LSVs have a low ratio of people killed: an average of 25 dead per year over the last six years for a total of 140,000 vehicles in operation, that is, an average ratio of 0.017. The ratio increases to 0.037 people killed per million kilometers travelled if we take into consideration their annual average mileage.
? LSVs cause four times less victims than the mopeds (who travel at the same speed on the same type of roads).
There were no road accident data for LSVs in the United States processed, however, during our research and meetings with the US authorities (NHTSA, IIHS), no major accident was mentioned.
Ideally, the LSV could become the urban vehicle par excellence and inspire municipal environments to modify their streets in order to prevent speeds higher than the speed limit in cities, so that all users may travel safely and better share public roads while reducing accidents caused by excessive speeds.
It really is an interesting article for those of you who are passionate about this subject (as you seem to be, on the this and other forum pages). If you would like to read it all here is the link: http://www.itaq.qc.ca/pdf/LSV_ITAQ.pdf
Also, Lake View Too,
In this article there are SEVERAL communities and cities where LSVs have become THE mode of transportation. Several cities in California & Florida are mentioned. I have also found links where new charging stations are being implemented along rural highways across the nation, suggesting increased LSV traffic in those areas. NC was the most recent.
Enjoy!
