Carbonado X/C

Long before all the kinks were worked out of the fencing production, Adrian had a team of engineers working on a carbon fiber all wheel drive EV.  The idea was to build a base model and stick with it. No frills, off road focused, the kind of vehicle needed in the inhabs.

Strictly speaking it wasn't street legal, no air bags for one thing. But they sold as farm use only, ranch vehicles on private land. Demand grew, there was no emissions, the price was reasonable and bit by bit, location by location the Western states found a way to allow the vehicles, not on the Interstates or any such thing, but certainly on state roads.

Then one day Carbonado's office in XXX had a visit request from MaineDOT. They had heard about the X/C and were interested in purchasing some for official use. They also signaled they would be supportive of a dealer in the state.

At the weekly staff meeting the topic came up. Adrian puzzled over the two parts of the visit and the related request. "Car number 251 just rolled off the assembly line, they want 76. We can do that, but we would have to ramp up production to meet our existing commitments." Adrian turned to his engineering and operations staff and asked all three of them, "Can we do that?"

Well they replied to Adrian, "Car bodies and such would be no major problem and we have plenty carbon fiber with more all the time. This gives us something to use it for. The sticking point would be the batteries. We have a one year commitment for a thousand and an option for a one point five increase the next year. This would probably take you out of the realm of a novelty hobby type company and a real car company. But how can you be a car company without airbags?"

"I don't know." Adrian replied, "See if you can get batteries, see how many batteries you can get, triple next years option." Polaris has a street legal version, we may just have to require helmets, because there sure isn't enough free space in our design for air bags."

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