I actually saw quite a few of them in Portugal this summer. I’m guessing Mazda dealers must have had some amazing financing deals over there to get rid of their stock.
Looking forward to the R-EV variant tho. That one looks cool. 85mile (or was it km? Doesn’t actually matter) EV range. Electric-only powertrain for simplicity. Tiny rotary engine purely to recharge the battery while driving. You don’t have to carry around a heavy battery. You don’t have to burn fossil fuels except on a longer trip. And best of all you get the opportunity to say “Wankel” to anyone who asks about the car.
I’m from germany, not the US, but I got one and it works. We use it for everything local: get groceries, bring the kids to sports and friends etc. We charge it once per week, on the weekend when we need the big car to transport everyone at once (3 kids) and the electricity is cheap (10c/KWh). It has a nice interior and good features for that class and it’s cheap to lease (110€/month). But I suppose it’s not made for the distances in the US.
Where in Germany do you pay 10 cents per kWh?
Like, most people I know pay between 30 and 50 cents at home - and more on public chargers.
Japanese carmakers proving once again that they are laughably behind the curve in the shift to electrification.
