Kalashnikov takes the fight to Tesla with baby-blue seventies swagger
Munich — Kalashnikov, maker of the AK-47 assault rifle, is the latest entry into the crowded electric vehicle race that has drawn a range of tech entrepreneurs, makers of vacuum cleaners as well as the world’s biggest car companies. The most recent Tesla fighter, presented in baby-blue and dubbed the CV-1, comes with a retro design that echoes the Soviet Union’s Izh-Kombi, a car popular in the 1970s. Kalashnikov showed off the car, with a broad front grille and a 350km driving range, at an arms fair in Moscow this week, the company said on its Facebook page. The CV-1 will help Kalashnikov enter the ranks of electric-car producers like Tesla and become a competitor, the manufacturer told news agency RIA Novosti. Kalashnikov has been trying to expand its brand, adding shops to sell its clothing line and other civilian accessories. With electric cars proliferating, albeit still from a low base, new competitors are vying to enter a sector dominated by longstanding manufacturers like Vol...
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