Vietnam-based VinFast wants to gain a foothold in the U.S. by selling affordable EVs. We spent time in the VF 8 to find out if it can succeed.
The list of companies hoping to grab a slice of the electric car market in America grows monthly. Many are start-ups that you’ve never heard of — and that you may never hear about, because the leap between loudly stating that you’re going to build a car and doing it is significant.
Playing it safe VinFast will send two EVs called VF 8 and VF 9, respectively, to plant a stake in the American market. Only the former was available to drive on a very short course set up close to the company’s factory in Vietnam. Shown above, it takes the form of a five-seater family-hauler that stretches 187 inches long, 74.8 inches wide, and 65.4 inches tall, dimensions that make it approximately six inches longer and an inch wider than a Toyota RAV4 and exactly as tall.
Interestingly, VinFast stresses it’s not targeting a specific carmaker as rivals; its main competitors, according to executives, are vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine. Its goal — and this could be the key to its success — is to offer EVs for roughly the same price as comparable gasoline-powered cars. It plans to achieve this by taking the battery pack out of the price.
Of course, it takes a lot more than being well-intentioned to make it in the car industry and that fact isn’t lost on the company. It teamed up with some of the world’s biggest and most respected suppliers to bring the VF 8 and the VF 9 to the market, and it joined forces with Volkswagen’s Electrify America to offer future owners charging options across the nation and smartphone integration.
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