The Lit C-1 doesn’t look like any car you’ve ever seen, but it still can go 120 miles per hour and gets 200 miles on each charge. Will people embrace the futuristic design enough to make the startup a success?
The first thing you see upon walking into Lit Motors’ three-story warehouse in San Francisco is the shell of a Land Rover Defender. It is, oddly enough, the inspiration behind the two-wheeled electric vehicle startup. When he was 23, Lit Motors Founder Danny Kim started a car production company and began the process of converting two Land Rover Defenders into biodiesel powerhouses that could get up to 32 miles per gallon. But then one of the Land Rovers nearly killed the now 33-year-old Kim when a vehicle stand failed while he was welding something onto the chassis. His next thought: Why do vehicles have to be so big and heavy?
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