The Geely Geometry Panda Mini EV is better equipped than many used cars costing £6000. It has a touchscreen with Apple CarPlay, a reversing camera, air-con and electric windows. One big difference: that’s the price brand new. The Panda exists within a relatively new Chinese class of car: a tiny, electric, four-seat runabout that, unlike Europe’s quadricycles, is actually useable in town and country. It will do 50-60mph, carry four and travel 124 miles on a charge.
The low, low cost of these cars is a product of falling battery prices and the segment’s almost universal use of lower-cost lithium-iron-phosphate battery chemistry, which gives them a range that far exceeds the lead-acid batteries that preceded them. The added range also means they qualify for new energy vehicle credits that their makers can sell to other brands that would like to carry on with combustion engines. Despite this, the segment isn’t as hot in China as it was two years ago.
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