AEHRA, Italy's Newest Electrical Vehicle Company

This is going no where.

17 hours ago, smk4565 said:

This is going no where.

I disagree, you can clearly see the Lambo influence in the front end design and for a high end luxury EV option, I can see the 1% class wanting a family hauler in a sedan and SUV like this. I would not be surprised to see this exceed the limited options of Lamborghini or Ferrari. 

Lamborghini and Ferrari have both stated they will stay focused on performance autos and yet while they have offered a 4 person suv option, they have clearly not cared about the 4/5 person sedan market.

Why else would Filippo leave the top spot at Lamborghini to go to a startup, he was limited and wanted to expand the portfolio, but the CEO and Board did not.

I fully expect this high end EV company to survive, how long in the current format is another question.

5 hours ago, David said:

I disagree, you can clearly see the Lambo influence in the front end design and for a high end luxury EV option, I can see the 1% class wanting a family hauler in a sedan and SUV like this. I would not be surprised to see this exceed the limited options of Lamborghini or Ferrari. 

Lamborghini and Ferrari have both stated they will stay focused on performance autos and yet while they have offered a 4 person suv option, they have clearly not cared about the 4/5 person sedan market.

Why else would Filippo leave the top spot at Lamborghini to go to a startup, he was limited and wanted to expand the portfolio, but the CEO and Board did not.

I fully expect this high end EV company to survive, how long in the current format is another question.

Maybach, Bentley, Rolls, will all have EV's, Porsche already does, Lamborghini and Ferrari will get there.  Plenty for the 1% crowd to pick from, not sure they want an unknown brand, such as the Lucid Air that is a sales dud.

59 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

Maybach, Bentley, Rolls, will all have EV's, Porsche already does, Lamborghini and Ferrari will get there.  Plenty for the 1% crowd to pick from, not sure they want an unknown brand, such as the Lucid Air that is a sales dud.

But you have other than Porsche, stated 3 EV's that have not gotten there yet that is really aimed for the 1/10th of 1% from a price standpoint. Porsche is the really only 4/5 person EV that covers the 1% to the top 10% group.

Lamborghini and Ferrari, do not make any 4/5 person EV sedan, just an SUV.

I also do not expect all the current Legacy ICE auto companies to survive. I think Mazda, Nissan will end up in select markets only, if not outright bought out and merged in to a stronger auto companies' portfolio much like how Subaru is a subsidiary of Toyota even though it is a publicly traded company, Toyota owns a controlling interest due to GM's bankruptcy.

8 hours ago, David said:

I disagree, you can clearly see the Lambo influence in the front end design and for a high end luxury EV option, I can see the 1% class wanting a family hauler in a sedan and SUV like this. I would not be surprised to see this exceed the limited options of Lamborghini or Ferrari. 

Lamborghini and Ferrari have both stated they will stay focused on performance autos and yet while they have offered a 4 person suv option, they have clearly not cared about the 4/5 person sedan market.

Why else would Filippo leave the top spot at Lamborghini to go to a startup, he was limited and wanted to expand the portfolio, but the CEO and Board did not.

I fully expect this high end EV company to survive, how long in the current format is another question.

We don't know a price range for these but Mercedes dominates the big sedan market, we've seen stuff like the Aston Martin Rapide and Jaguar XJ, Cadillac CT6 come and go.  There aren't enough sedan buyers at the higher end, even at $75,000+ to really have new entrants come in.  It isn't a growth segment.

On the SUV side, you have Tesla Model X, electric G-wagon and EV Escalade will be out by 2026, although the Escalade would be a North American thing, not European, but Mercedes, Audi, BMW will have plenty of electric SUVs in Europe before Aehra arrives.  

Aehra really has to be able to beat the competition on price, which they won't be able to do because they won't have their scale.  Lucid is already running out of money and they seemed a bit more fleshed out than this company is and Lucid hit the market when it wasn't as crowded with EV's, AEHRA is going to hit it when EV price wars are going on.

18 hours ago, David said:

I also do not expect all the current Legacy ICE auto companies to survive. I think Mazda, Nissan will end up in select markets only, if not outright bought out and merged in to a stronger auto companies' portfolio much like how Subaru is a subsidiary of Toyota even though it is a publicly traded company, Toyota owns a controlling interest due to GM's bankruptcy.

I pretty  much hate everything Nissan but why do you think they'll go away or be bought out? 

47 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I pretty  much hate everything Nissan but why do you think they'll go away or be bought out? 

Nissan is in a weird place, the auto business is a small part of the much larger Nissan conglomeration of businesses. As such, they already did not want to put much money into the auto business as to why they partnered up with Renault.

I can easily see the larger parent company just decide to sell off rather than invest in the auto industry.

Just my personal opinion on it.

That front axle looks to be where ones feet should be while sitting in the front seat. I thought FWD cars looked funny with no dash to axle spacing but this is goofy.

cab-forward taken to extremes...

Should electric vehicles follow the styling elements of internal combustion engined vehicles?

In an EV, there is no huge block of iron (or aluminium) to HAVE to be accounted for in the first third of the vehicle and then to stylize and prepare for the cabin. 

I mean, designers and engineers, cant they have carte blanche to design an EV with a brand new way of thinking and engineering?

Do they need to be shackled by old engineering and design standards?

When the automobile was first concieved and the body of the vehicle that housed the passengers was directly lifted by the horse and buggy carriages.  It took a couple of decades to get off of that idiotic way of engineering the 'horseless carriage'.  

I think, today's engineers and designers are smarter, wiser, keener than our forefathers when they done the first automobiles...

I also think its wiser to design and engineer EVs like they are their own entity. Because they are...

Stylistically.  There is nothing wrong with it. 

And if EVs start plopping out looking like that, inherently, there is nothing wrong with that either.

Smartly, they would be engineered this way to look exactly like that...  I presume, inherently, because of the lack of a huge iron or aluminium block up front, lends itself for there to be more cabin space for the passengers... 

Something that was thought of 20 some odd years ago...I might add.   From General Motors as it were...

Those Italian car pictures mimicking the HYWIRE pictures...

I'd rather see more front structure for crumple zones and crash engineering... not a fan of the egg on wheels shape. 

We have had prolific egg shape on wheel styling since the 1990s.  Ill agree that it has become old and outdated and perhaps archaic?   But Im not hatin' on the Aehra design language.   Im not full on enamored by it.  Im accepting of it.

I am GRATEFUL that whether its the SUV or sedan, they do NOT have the stereotypical crossover look to them.  

They got the new crossover CROSSOVER transition of the CUV to look like a sedan... A sleek sedan.  But sedan nontheless.

Like this KIA for example.  

Except the cab forward design taken to extreme like how you said @Robert Hall.

I have to say that I am liking the Performance versions of both Hyundai and Kia SUVs.

16 minutes ago, David said:

I have to say that I am liking the Performance versions of both Hyundai and Kia SUVs.

After seeing a bunch in parking lots and in traffic, I really like the design of both of those.  Really like the Ionic 5 for its shape and quirky lighting details.