California-based company Mullen Technologies wants to launch sales of the all-electric sports coupe called Dragonfly K50 in the United States. Let’s have a closer look at it.
Qiantu Motor created the original CH-Auto Event Concept for the Auto Beijing show six years ago, and approved it into production a year later as the Qiantu K50.
Mullen first mentioned in 2016 that it wanted to import the model into the U.S. and launch sales in 2020 at the latest. Hovewer, assorted economic problems and the recent coronavirus outbreak pushed these plans back to the second half of 2020.
The American specification of the car will be called “Dragonfly” and start from U.S. $124,999 (Signature Series). The same vehicle goes for $106,500 in China, and to this date, the manufacturer is rumored to have sold around 1,000 units.
The sports car takes advantage of an aluminum space-frame build and carbon-fiber bodywork. Its two electric motors mounted one per axle churn out 435 hp (324 kW) and 680 Nm (500 lb-ft) total, taking the coupe to 96 km/h (0-60 mph) in 4.7 seconds. The speed cap lies at 200 km/h (124 mph), and the traction battery stores up to 78.84 kilowatt-hours of energy, which yields around 380 km (236 miles) of NEDC-rated range.
To put things into perspective, the Tesla Model 3 Long Range does the sprint in 4.6 seconds, maxes out at 233 km/h (145 mph), and has at least 518 km (322 miles) of range according to the EPA test protocol. Tested against the more common WLTP standard, it gets 560 km (348 miles) of range.
Later on, the company plans to unveil a new SUV called MX-05 and a mysterious innovative “super battery”.