That is such an annoying maximum speed. It's just shy of the speed limits of many residential areas. In Germany on towns it's generally 50kmh. On the US many roads have 30 or 35mph. This is just slow enough to be annoying to be behind and fast enough to make it not trivial to overtake.

I say this as someone who wants a commuter vehicle similar to this. It's fine for me if it cannot go on the freeway, but it must be able to not hold up traffic everywhere else.

Edit: I also prefer the shape of the Toyota iRoad. While that thing can go 37mph I think 50mph or at least 45 is the minimum to not be a nuisance.

In the US, we call them NEVs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle

Are there not 35mph roads in SF? Every artery in LA is 35mph and between 8pm-4am and 11am-2pm you are expected to be going 45mph lest you be aggressively tailgated and immediately cut off by some asshole in a Bellinger jersey.

Buy yourself an NEV. Those are the North American equivalent. They've been around for 20+ years.

That's a legally mandated top speed to fit into that class of vehicle. "Brommobiel" we call them here.