 Hey everybody, this is Sean with The Verge. I'm about to hop into this, the Electra Mechanica Solo EV. Let's go for a ride. So what exactly am I in right now? This is the Electra Mechanica Solo EV. It is a tiny three-wheeled electric car. It costs about $20,000 as a range of about 100 miles and a top speed of around 80 miles an hour. It is weird. This is only one of 18 built so far. Four of them have actually already been delivered. And Electra Mechanica is just this company out of Vancouver who decided to build this weird little EV. Some other specs you might be curious about. It takes about three to six hours to charge out of a standard wall outlet or a 220V outlet. It has a 16 kilowatt hour battery, so pretty small. But again, good enough for about a 100 mile range, which is pretty close to some of the EVs that are out there. Inside you find basically all the kinds of accoutrement you would want inside a normal car. We've got a radio, we've got air conditioning, we've got wipers. I mean, it's not like it's missing anything. It's just less of a car than most cars. The company comes from a group of people who were a part of Intermechanica, which is an old shop that used to refurb Porsches. It really does kind of look like a normal car from the front, and then you turn and all of a sudden it looks like a slipper or a mohawk. I don't know what you'd really call it. The company that this most directly relates to is Elio Motors, who made a three-wheel gasoline car that has really fallen flat. They've run into so many troubles trying to get that on the road, and who knows if Electra Mechanica will face those same kinds of troubles. I think what I like most about this car is not the way it drives or how it looks or anything like that. It's what it represents. This is another example of how the drop in price of electric motor technology and battery technology is changing everything. Everything from something like this to electric scooters to electric bikes. It's making so many people with weird ideas finally able to challenge those weird ideas and try to put them on the road. And that's never really been possible before. I mean, we are really seeing a revolution here. Electric vehicles may only make up 1% of the market so far, but we're seeing more weird ideas like this come out every year. It is extremely strange to be in a car that's this small. I've been in cars that are this low before, race cars that are this low before, but this is something totally different. And it feels like you're so invisible, and that scares me a little bit. I haven't had a chance to get it up to its top speed of about 85 miles an hour. It has 82 horsepower, which I guess some feeling. I mean, anything below 100 is a bit hard to register, even in a small car like this. Also not very quiet in the cabin. I don't know if you can hear that. The whir of the motor comes right through because it's right back there. I really don't know who it's for, other than people who have $20,000 to burn. One of my favorite things though is driving anything that draws attention, and everybody keeps looking at this and wondering what the hell is this guy driving. So that was a drive of the Electra Mechanica Solo EV. For all the weird electric cars, electric scooters, self-driving cars, everything we've seen at CES this week, go to youtube.com slash the verge, click subscribe. Go to theverge.com slash CES for everything else we've seen. And that's it. Thanks for watching. Am I looking at you? No, look at me. So that was a ride in the Electra Mechanica Solo EV for... sorry.
 Hey everybody, this is Sean with The Verge. I'm about to hop into this, the Electra Mechanica
 Solo EV. Let's go for a ride.
 So what exactly am I in right now? This is the Electra Mechanica Solo EV. It is a tiny
 three-wheeled electric car. It costs about $20,000 as a range of about 100 miles and a
 top speed of around 80 miles an hour. It is weird. This is only one of 18 built so far.
 Four of them have actually already been delivered. And Electra Mechanica is just this company
 out of Vancouver who decided to build this weird little EV. Some other specs you might be curious
 about. It takes about three to six hours to charge out of a standard wall outlet or a 220V outlet.
 It has a 16 kilowatt hour battery, so pretty small. But again, good enough for about a 100
 mile range, which is pretty close to some of the EVs that are out there. Inside you find basically
 all the kinds of accoutrement you would want inside a normal car. We've got a radio, we've got
 air conditioning, we've got wipers. I mean, it's not like it's missing anything. It's just less of
 a car than most cars. The company comes from a group of people who were a part of Intermechanica,
 which is an old shop that used to refurb Porsches. It really does kind of look like a normal car from
 the front, and then you turn and all of a sudden it looks like a slipper or a mohawk. I don't know
 what you'd really call it. The company that this most directly relates to is Elio Motors,
 who made a three-wheel gasoline car that has really fallen flat. They've run into so many
 troubles trying to get that on the road, and who knows if Electra Mechanica will face those same
 kinds of troubles. I think what I like most about this car is not the way it drives or how it looks
 or anything like that. It's what it represents. This is another example of how the drop in price
 of electric motor technology and battery technology is changing everything. Everything from something
 like this to electric scooters to electric bikes. It's making so many people with weird ideas
 finally able to challenge those weird ideas and try to put them on the road. And that's never
 really been possible before. I mean, we are really seeing a revolution here. Electric vehicles may
 only make up 1% of the market so far, but we're seeing more weird ideas like this come out every
 year. It is extremely strange to be in a car that's this small. I've been in cars that are this low
 before, race cars that are this low before, but this is something totally different. And it feels
 like you're so invisible, and that scares me a little bit. I haven't had a chance to get it up
 to its top speed of about 85 miles an hour. It has 82 horsepower, which I guess some feeling. I mean,
 anything below 100 is a bit hard to register, even in a small car like this. Also not very quiet in
 the cabin. I don't know if you can hear that. The whir of the motor comes right through because
 it's right back there. I really don't know who it's for, other than people who have $20,000 to
 burn. One of my favorite things though is driving anything that draws attention, and everybody
 keeps looking at this and wondering what the hell is this guy driving.
 So that was a drive of the Electra Mechanica Solo EV. For all the weird electric cars, electric
 scooters, self-driving cars, everything we've seen at CES this week, go to youtube.com slash
 the verge, click subscribe. Go to theverge.com slash CES for everything else we've seen.
 And that's it. Thanks for watching.
 Am I looking at you?
 No, look at me.
 So that was a ride in the Electra Mechanica Solo EV for... sorry.