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Canada's Answer to Tesla Is a $15,500 Electric Three-Wheeler

  • Electra Meccanica in talks to manufacture at GM’s Oshawa plant
  • Canadian firm aims to make 75,000 electric cars for West Coast
This $15,500 Electric Three-Wheeler Is Tesla's Latest Competitor

It’s all-electric like a Tesla. It’s priced like a Ford Fiesta. It’s one of the oddest-looking vehicles you’ve ever seen -- and it may just redefine the commuter car.

As General Motors Co. prepares to shut the plant near Toronto that got car-making started in Canada more than a century ago, a new model is taking shape in a tiny production facility in Vancouver’s outskirts.