The one-passenger three-wheeler started life in B.C., but halted production a year ago before meeting a very sad fate
- An Arizona scrapyard has been blowing up on social media for playing home to a trashed pile of Solos
- The three-wheeled EV was originally built in B.C., with a range of 160 km and a too-high price tag
- Production moved to China and then Arizona; in 2023, those cars were recalled and bought back
The company certainly gave it its best shot, including a display at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show, but the odds weren’t in its favour. For one thing, the Solo earned its name because it could only hold one person; and for its Canadian introduction, the cost was a relatively high $19,888. When production moved to Arizona, the Solo retained its 160-km range, but its price equivalent in Canadian dollars had risen to about $23,200.
From there, it planned to build a four-wheeled EV. It backed out of a merger with a British electric and hydrogen truck firm that later went bankrupt. Then, in March of 2024, ElectraMeccanica was bought by electric truck manufacturer Xos Inc., based in Los Angeles. That company is relatively small also – it delivered 110 trucks in the fourth quarter of 2023, and that was a record for it – but its customers include FedEx and Canada Post.
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