Ora Black Cat

The Ora Black Cat, also known as the R1, is a battery electric city car built by Great Wall Motors and sold under its Ora electric sub-brand from 2019 to 2022. It was unveiled at the Shanghai Motor Show in April 2019 and renamed from Ora R1 to Black Cat at the Chongqing Auto Show in July 2020. A front-mounted permanent magnet motor of 36 kW and 125 newton metres drives it to 102 km/h, and the lithium-ion battery gives up to 301 km of NEDC range. It was priced from 59,800 to 77,800 yuan in 2019, making it the cheapest electric car in the world at the time, and its styling resembles the Smart ForFour. Ora confirmed in February 2022 that it had been discontinued in China, and it was also exported, including to Costa Rica, where it was the cheapest electric car.