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Russia presents electric car Amber, public wishes it hadn’t — photo

Moscow Polytechnic University unveiled the prototype of the Russian electric car Amber on Dec. 18, sarcastically dubbed the “Tesla Killer” on social media.

Its development was reportedly commissioned by the Avtotor plant in Kaliningrad, known for producing cars from BMW, Ford, KIA, and Hyundai until Western sanctions prompted a shift to this new venture.

The plant will have to settle for this “monster” now.

While the introduction of this electric car horrified many Russian citizens, most users saw it as an opportunity to mock the long-suffering Russian automotive industry.

Amber stands out not just for its design but also for claims that its engine, inverter, control boards, and batteries will be of Russian origin.

Therefore, discussing the quality of this product is unwarranted, even if most of its components, as is often the case in the Russian Federation, turn out to be Chinese.

https://english.nv.ua/life/russia-boasted-about-the-prototype-of-their-electric-car-amber-it-would-be-better-if-they-didn-t-50377776.html

56 comments

  1. This car is a perfect example of what happens when all the smart people flee a nazi regime. They should paint is grey, at least then it would blend in with the background.

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  2. Still uncontrollable laughter over Russia’s electrical “car”. This is what happens when you design when you are drunk!! The thing is “butt ugly”!! When is the “runt”, Putin going to take a public test drive??? The Russians just don’t get it! They have become the laughing stock of the world. “Tesla killer”….right! 😂

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  6. What puzzles me is they, the Russians, have the reasonable looking Lada Samara, so just like the Nissan Leaf could they not have electrified a fairly normal hatchback. A Russian Leaf would make sense. This reminds of the fish in the Guinness advert! The poor thing has a major identity crisis plus honestly how do you drive on Russian roads and weather on those impossibly small tyres? Bet somebody in the Ukrainian army has a bet on who can shove a tank shell into it first. Russia please use a Lada Samara as a base vehicle.

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    • Lada were only suitable for the East until Fiat got involved, then they made changes to make them more suitable for Western markets, not that Fiat were much better, but they at least had Western thinking.
      In 2008 Renault began to give technical assistance, so further improvements were made, finally taking control in 2016.
      Developed alongside their Dacia brand, which incidentally has now become an excellent vehicle, Lada was re-acquired (Stolen?) in 2022 by the moskovy state.

      While Dacia has improved every year, I expect Lada has gone full speed into reverse, if you have enough money for a car in moskovia, you can afford a stolen BMW or Merc.

      So with Lada again being state owned, they must do what they are told, keep churning out shit for the proles.

      Uglyretardedhippo car company being independent? can choose to invest in the electric revolution, to produce the World’s best ever EPV, which will always be faster, quicker accelerating, travel further and also be invisible to RADAR than any other EPV now or to ever be produced.

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      • I might have been slightly confused in the last line or two as I forgot whether we were discussing Cars or Missiles.

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      • My point with the Lada is we all know the actual cars were only as good as their owners, in real terms most were useless. From a design point of view this, the Samara, was leagues ahead of the normal Fiat based cars which honestly have always looked like a Lego car from the ‘seventies. Lada make good designs such as the Niva (4X4) and Samara then do nothing with the design. It makes me smile Vladimir Putin’s army trucks owe their design origins to the original GMC six wheel trucks from America during WW2 as many were left behind. Russian design although good sometimes is at least fifty years behind. Don’t mention their version of Concorde, a sore point in design.

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