{"id":222035,"date":"2025-09-17T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-tiny-7000-electric-car-is-more-popular-in-japan-than-toyotas-evs"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:02:45","slug":"this-tiny-7000-electric-car-is-more-popular-in-japan-than-toyotas-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-tiny-7000-electric-car-is-more-popular-in-japan-than-toyotas-evs","title":{"rendered":"This Tiny $7,000 Electric Car Is More Popular in Japan Than Toyota\u2019s EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tiny-7000-electric-car-is-more-popular-in-japan-than-toyotas-evs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese startup KG Motors is building a stylish, single-seat electric car for just $7,000, and has pre-sold 3,300 that it plans to deliver to customers by March 2027.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s more than the 2,000 EVs Toyota sold across Japan in all of 2024, according to Bloomberg. Called the \u201cmibot,\u201d KG\u2019s car has a limited 62-mile range and a 37mph top speed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Could the single-seat \u2018mibot\u2019 ignite an all-electric revolution in hybrid-heavy Japan, or even inspire more openness to small, affordable vehicles in the US?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese startup KG Motors is building a stylish, single-seat electric car for just $7,000, and has pre-sold 3,300 that it plans to deliver to customers by March 2027. That\u2019s more than the 2,000 EVs Toyota sold across Japan in all of 2024, according to Bloomberg. Called the \u201cmibot,\u201d KG\u2019s car has a limited 62-mile range [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}