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Red Star for Effort: Gunmaker-built Russian EV Earns Top Marx For Retro Done Right

Red Star for Effort: Gunmaker-built Russian EV Earns Top Marx For Retro Done Right

You don’t have to be from a former Eastern Bloc country to feel strange pangs of desire for this Russian one-off. Built by Kalashnikov — yes, that Kalashnikov — the CV-1 concept car features an old body concealing an advanced electric powertrain.

The maker of the AK-47, AK-74, and various other automatic small arms apparently wants to stamp out Tesla’s decadent invasion of the Motherland’s fledgling EV market.

Steph Willems Aug 23, 2018

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