{"id":347481,"date":"2026-03-01T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/i-tested-the-weird-tiny-low-cost-electric-car-soon-coming-to-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:38:42","slug":"i-tested-the-weird-tiny-low-cost-electric-car-soon-coming-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/i-tested-the-weird-tiny-low-cost-electric-car-soon-coming-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"I tested the weird, tiny, low-cost electric car soon coming to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/i-tested-the-weird-tiny-low-cost-electric-car-soon-coming-to-the-us.jpg\" \/>Electric vehicles are everywhere these days, but few are as intriguing \u2013 or as polarizing \u2013 as the tiny urban EV soon headed to American roads. Fiat recently announced plans to bring its diminutive new model, the Topolino, to the US this year. At roughly the size of a golf cart and priced far below most traditional EVs, it is technically more of a quadricycle than a true \u2018car\u2019 and offers a radically different vision of personal mobility: ultra-compact, affordable, and perfectly tailored to short city commutes. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/03\/01\/i-tested-the-weird-tiny-low-cost-electric-car-soon-moming-to-the-us\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/i-tested-the-weird-tiny-low-cost-electric-car-soon-coming-to-the-us\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":347482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}