We have already seen several times a white electric van, the Atieva Edna, who was able to merge a few supercars racing pure acceleration, but it turns out that these people are doing more than measured against other production cars in a straight.

In Atieva they are finalizing preparations for the launch of a rival who will come to fight against Tesla dog face: the Atieva Atvus. The official announcement will be made shortly, the presentation of the final model will arrive in December and, if no delays, they want to be selling cars before the end of 2018. First in the United States and then in China.

All Atieva eggs are in the basket Atvus

Sources have revealed the information through the portal Recode announce that the development of electric Atvus is in a very advanced state. Currently the prototype would be finalizing the details in Germany, and when you have the approval will start with the manufacture of five prototypes for testing in open traffic.

So far the prototypes that have been made were only for testing and closed circuit sections, and the initial intention was to build 35 prototypes, but economic problems have forced them to reduce that amount to only five. Soon they begin with economic problems.

The Atieva Atvus (as it is known provisionally) is a sedan with characteristics midway between a Tesla Model S and Fisker Karma in design and measures.Domestically would be powered by a system of batteries and electric motors own that would endow the saloon independent four-wheel drive.

The benefits would match Edna, being able to get to 100 km / h from standstill in less than three seconds and keeping figures of reasonable autonomy. All this in the words of the directors of the company.

The electric Atieva would have in his sights blatantly Tesla products, especially knowing that the CEO of the company, Peter Rawlinsons was chief engineer of the Tesla Model S. Therefore, the draft Atieva know him in Sillicon Valey as “the car of revenge”.

Knowing that at least two years left (at best) for the Atieva Atvus start going outside in the hands of its first customers, you will reach a market with some other contender else besides the Tesla. To counter this disadvantage, the technological burden of Atvus would be the very best, endowed with a system of autonomous driving.

The factory (yet) ghost Atieva

The brand has two development centers currently in Nevada within 20 kilometers of the Tesla factory, but lack a true factory with which to face a predictably high demand, if plans go well for them.

Recode notes that the assembly plant will be located in Casa Grande (Arizona), one of the enclaves that Elon Musk was mulling before deciding on the final location of the Gigafactory. The state of Arizona would be working very actively with Atieva to facilitate their implementation, even offering generous tax incentives.

Atieva estimates that his factory could have an initial production of 20,000 units annually, with capacity for up to 130,000 if necessary. These figures are more than optimistic for a company, so to speak, still it has nothing. Not to have, they have no built the ship.

The cost of assembling all the necessary infrastructure of nowhere rises above $ 300 million, but the company would be in the process to close an agreement with the Department of Energy and Production Vehicle Advanced Technology to support 80% of the cost of the building. Although this subsidy would be given a posterior, as a refund, no capital contribution.

The brand was founded in 2007 with capital of Chinese origin by Sam Weng, Bernard Tse Lin and Sheaupyng have developed over 100 patents and 2014 have focused on the production of electric motors and battery packs for buses in China.For two years two Chinese corporations injected 100 million dollars in capital and decided it was time to do something more important: compete against Tesla.

Atieva is also involved in Formula E, and at least during the seasons 2017 and 2018 the technology will be in a few cars in the championship, as with Faraday Future and NextEV.

Many fronts, many unknowns and a lot of questions for which it is still early for answers, especially for a company that has never made a complete vehicle. The future of cars is electric, but lately we see many megalomaniacs projects at risk to become bubbles zero emissions.

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