VinFast To Unveil Tiny VF 3 EV And Mystery Concept At CES

Carscoops ^ | Brad Anderson

[cba123]

VinFast will unveil the entry-level VF 3 SUV at January’s CES 2024 event in Las Vegas, together with a new concept.

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VinFast recently revealed that U.S. dealers have expressed plenty of interest in the VF 3, in part because it could hit the market for less than $20,000 and that’s before the $7,500 EV tax credit when leased.

CES will be the first time that Americans can see the VF 3 in the flesh. It is just 122.5 inches (3,114 mm) long and while it only has two doors, it claims it has enough interior space for five occupants. Technical specifications remain unknown but the compact footprint and impressively affordable pricing target probably means it will have a small battery pack and just a single electric motor.

[cba123]

“VinFast's U.S. dealerships have already expressed a lot of interest in the sub-$20,000 VF 3“

[V_TWIN]

“a multitude of issues....”

Well that certainly sounds reassuring

[Carriage Hill]

More EV crap. Yawn...

[Red Badger]

https://freerepublic.com/tag/vinfast/index?tab=articles

[cba123]

There are a TON of VinFast in Vietnam, loads of them.

They are working the production bugs out here, by the time production begins in America, we will have a good $13,000 car, made in Americca.

At least after the rebate. 😎

Looks like 2026.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nothing like "free" money to make once unaffordable things affordable. Can they do that with mortgages? Gasoline? Food? Heating bills?

How about nice vacations?

We need to replace "E Pluribus Unum" with...

[Dr. Sivana]

Looks like 2026.

2026? You mean the year manufacturers have to add devices to allow remote shut-of, and other devices to make sure you are not driving impaired? Of course, traction control and rear view cameras are already required, as are air bags. If these folks were just allowed to make cars, who knows how reasonably priced they could be?

[cba123]

Hey thanks.

(Bookmark)

[Wuli]

This is where EV’s should have begun, not as replacement of gas/diesel powered sedans, but as small city-suburban vehicles that neither would have needed a long range, giant battery packs, long recharge times and high prices. Those cars would not have needed any state or federal subsidies either. From there, gradually, under 100% free market conditions, the cars would have evolved, grown some market share and grown in size as well.

Instead the EV makers went straight to trying to replace the best gas/diesel cars in the market. Now the manufacturers and dealers are left with inventory they can’t sell.

[desertsolitaire]

Like a $500 dollar 2 stroke gas go-kart
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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Needs a new name. How about VinSlow? VinPoky? VinSubsidized? VinEgar?

[Noumenon]

VinInferno

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...Good one.

VinBlazer?

[motor_racer]

As far as I know, there are NO specific crash testing requirements to ensure that EVs are safe. So they aren’t.

[from occupied ga]

Just what we need another POS EV.

[muir_redwoods]

I as extremely lucky to recently get to sons a week on St Thomas in the USVI. Automotively it’s a weird place. They drive US standard left-hand drive cars but they drive them on the left ala Britain.

The roads are tiny, gasoline is $5/gal snd top speed limit is 35mph. There is near constant bright sunshine. It’s possibly the best sort of environment for an EV

Anywhere else they suck.

[cba123]

I don’t know.

We are still in America about two years from seeing the real cheap ev’s, and I don’t know if the really strong tax rebates will continue, but ev’s continue to get cheaper, and more robust, both.

But the auto markets are going to be turned on their heads, soon.

Already, China is crossing 50% of their new cars being ev’s.

America is not as aggressive as China at adopting ev’s, but we will.

Absolutely.

2 years I think, then things in the US will also start to change, big time.

Ev’s are going to be very, very cheap.

Soon.

[cba123]

I think Americans are not quite as focused as China, on making things really cheap.

I dialed into Alibaba yesterday, just to look. Everything just continues to get cheaper, and cheaper. And there are SO MANY places offering mini ev’s now.

The prices just continue to fall. About a year ago I got exactly what some here are suggesting VinFast will be. A very cheap, 3-wheel electric vehicle my wife and I can take to the mall together. It was cheap last year, but the price keeps dropping. They are now well below $500. Mine was purchased here in Vietnam.

Now we can’t go far with it, can’t carry a whole lot of groceries with it, but we can make it several miles there, several miles back, it (sort of) has a roof for when it rain, we are very comfortable with riding it together, and we brought back 11 bags of groceries 2 weeks ago. Relatively secure here, and it is so cheap nobody is likely to steal it. It is pretty slow. 😎

That however, is not what will soon be available.

What we will have a true car. Seats four, sporty, quick and a relatively good range. And cheap.

Just not yet.

[cba123]

I have a $500 (electric) go-cart.

Hey it works fine. Can actually take it all the way to downtown Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon, and back. Not going to win (any) races with it…

But they are rapidly improving now. I think two years now…

[cba123]

Let me try to post this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgaVawxXtGQ

That is the VinFast VF3 (hopefully)

😎