Vanderhall - Our Venice and Carmel models feature a mono-aluminum chassis with a composite ABS body and a 1.4 or a 1.5 liter, four-cylinder turbocharged engine mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission. Edison models feature a fully electric drive train.
That's a big engine just to charge the batteries. Mazda has prototypes of using a small rotary engine (run when needed at a constant speed) to charge their batteries.
No doors or side impact bars is kind of scary (even though the door might no doo much). Great cars for FL - although most would want air conditioning for commuters. I sure don't want to be wearing a full helmet in Jul/Aug in FL!