{"id":216208,"date":"2025-09-10T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216208\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:52:15","slug":"who-buys-kandi-vehicles-and-should-they-be-on-d-fw-roads-curious-texas-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216208\/","title":{"rendered":"Who buys Kandi vehicles and should they be on D-FW roads? Curious Texas answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located in a shopping center just east of North Central Expressway in the former home of an Academy Sports + Outdoors, sits the American headquarters of Kandi.<\/p>\n

Visitors who try to enter the building for the Chinese electric car maker to see what Kandi vehicles are all about will find it\u2019s not open to the public. <\/p>\n

But Curious Texas<\/a> has the key to what Kandi vehicles are all about.<\/p>\n

An anonymous reader asked Curious Texas<\/a> who buys Kandi vehicles and if they are roadworthy. The reader has seen them at the shopping center that includes a Home Depot at Forest Lane and North Central Expressway.<\/p>\n

Curious Texas<\/p>\n

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Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. is a Chinese manufacturer of batteries and electric vehicles, according to its website.<\/a> Kandi America, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Kandi Technologies, manages its U.S. operations.<\/p>\n

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Kandi moved its U.S. headquarters<\/a> from Garland to Dallas and the high-profile corner in the Lake Highlands neighborhood in 2021. The 54,372-sq.-ft. building houses Kandi America\u2019s corporate offices, a showroom and a distribution center for its electric vehicles which you won\u2019t see traveling down North Texas roadways, though that had been the idea a few years back. <\/p>\n

Plans to sell street-legal Kandi cars seemed to be in the works in the early 2020s. Kandi issued news releases<\/a> in 2019 that said \u201cModel EX3 and Model K22 have been approved for importation and registration in the USA by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u201d The first deliveries were supposed to be at the end of 2019.<\/p>\n

In mid-2020, Kandi announced<\/a> the \u201claunch of the most affordable pure electric automobiles in the U.S. market,\u201d with its K23 and K27 EV models available by the end of that year. The introductory purchase price of the cars was set at $10,000 after a $7,500 tax credit. <\/p>\n

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That didn\u2019t happen, either, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a> got involved, investigating what it called misleading statements.<\/p>\n

The regulatory agency said Kandi \u201ccreated the false impression\u201d it had satisfied safety requirements for selling highway-legal EVs in the U.S. and that those sales would happen soon. <\/p>\n

Kandi\u2019s safety claims of having been \u201ccertified\u201d or \u201capproved\u201d by the NHTSA as proof of the cars\u2019 safety were questioned, CNN.com reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n

NHTSA does not test or certify cars. Manufacturers have to certify that their products comply with federal safety standards and are free of safety defects, according to a statement from NHTSA to CNN.<\/p>\n

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No highway-approved Kandi vehicles made it to the U.S., and by fall 2020, Kandi had already decided to instead market its cars in the U.S. as low-speed neighborhood vehicles, according to the SEC<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The SEC and Kandi reached a settlement in 2023<\/a> for $710,000. <\/p>\n

\u201cOften, Kandi\u2019s unrealistic timelines were coupled with materially misleading statements about whether its EVs had all necessary regulatory approvals,\u201d the SEC said.<\/p>\n

Kandi neither admitted to nor denied the SEC findings, Treazure Johnson, a lawyer who represented Kandi America in the SEC investigation, said at the time.<\/p>\n

The EV maker is still around, though. Kandi vehicles are now marketed as off-road or recreational vehicles. Their electric golf carts and UTVs are designed for use in neighborhoods, resorts and similar settings, rather than for highway travel.<\/p>\n

\"Kandi<\/p>\n

Kandi America, the U.S. subsidiary of Chinese EV maker Kandi Technologies Group, sells off-road and neighborhood vehicles in the U.S., such as this six-person golf kart.<\/p>\n

Kandi America<\/p>\n

Kandi\u2019s product line includes electric golf carts, utility terrain vehicles (UTVs), and e-bikes, as well as components like electric motors and lithium batteries.<\/p>\n

Kandi vehicles appeal to customers seeking affordable, electric options for recreation or neighborhood use; however, they are not designed or approved for regular road use in most areas, according to their website.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., Kandi vehicles are sold through authorized dealers and retail partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Located in a shopping center just east of North Central Expressway in the former home of an Academy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6147,56631,1596,13386,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-216208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-autos","10":"tag-curious-texas","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-lake-highlands","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115181515258408406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}