'E-Mehari Electric-Moke could come to Oz' % Top Gear sez E-Mehari is a Citroen-costumed Bollore Blue-Summer EV by long-boozy(drunk) lunch-break designers %
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/citroen-e-mehari-goes-on-sale-from-25000-gets-a-new-promo-video-105726.html Citroen E-MEHARI Goes on Sale from €25,000, Gets a New Promo Video 20TH MARCH 2016 MIHNEA RADU [images http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/citroen-e-mehari-goes-on-sale-from-25000-gets-a-new-promo-video_1.jpg (light blue with 4 people) http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/citroen-e-mehari-goes-on-sale-from-25000-gets-a-new-promo-video_4.jpg (light blue with red interior) http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/citroen-e-mehari-goes-on-sale-from-25000-gets-a-new-promo-video_7.jpg (red rear) http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/citroen-e-mehari-goes-on-sale-from-25000-gets-a-new-promo-video_11.jpg (red with white interior) http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/citroen-e-mehari-goes-on-sale-from-25000-gets-a-new-promo-video_9.jpg (gold) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwO5SsRk0Uo Citroën E-MEHARI: fresh and expressive design Citroën Mar 20, 2016 Stylish, confident, offbeat, and even sassy, E-MEHARI is a bold, vibrant vehicle in tune with the CITROËN spirit. This charismatic E-MEHARI is a vehicle of simple, relaxed design, with features advanced technology. E-MEHARI is designed for people who are looking for a fun car that is really different. It has a uniquely fresh and expressive style, with a choice of four body colours, two roof colours and two seat colours. ] A couple of days ago, I was strolling through the Citroen website looking for data on the DS3 facelift when I stumbled upon a very interesting car that's gone on sale. I'm talking about the E-MEHARI, easily the weirdest car offered by a French company. Even though Citroen expects most of its customers to be businesses like hotel resorts, you can still grab one for yourself at the princely price of €25,000, about the same as a Grand C4 Picasso or two C3 superminis. The E-MEHARI is an electric vehicle, as its name suggests, but the body is unlike anything else. The tiny passenger compartment is protected by two targa-style roof hoops and there are only two doors. It even looks like the steering wheel is a simple metal hood without an airbag in the middle. Mind you, the E-MEHARI is the least likely car to be involoved in a high-speed crash EVER. Although the maximum power rating is 50 kW, the rated power is just 35 kW or 47 horsepower. As unimpressive as the motor is, the battery pack is an awesome 30 kWh or the same as the latest 2016 Nissan Leaf update. Given that, the total range of 200 kilometers or 124 miles seems doable. A full charge will take 8 hours on a 16A socket (at domestic/public stations such as Autolib in France), or in 13 hours on a 10A socket that you have at home. So what else can we tell you? Well, a megari is acutally a fast running Arabian camel used by the French when they were colonizing North Africa. For those of us who don’t recall the “original” MEHARI introduced in the late 60s by the French automaker, and sold through 1988, you can check it out in the second video below. The E-MEHARI is the second smallest vehicle sold by Citroen, ahead of the C3 and the C-Zero EV. It measures 3,810 mm (150 inches) in length, 1,650 mm (65 inches) in height, and 1,870 mm (74 inches) in width. [© autoevolution.com] ... http://www.citroen.fr/vehicules-neufs/citroen/citroen-e-mehari.html Citroën E-Mehari : essai & achat cabriolet électrique 4 places Véritable électron libre dans le paysage automobile, E-Mehari propose un style frais et optimiste pour un véhicule 100% électrique. http://www.motoring.com.au/e-mehari-moke-could-come-to-oz-101606/ E-Mehari 'Moke' could come to Oz Mar 7, 2016 ... a cheeky new open-top beach buggy on the scene called the E-Mehari and its creator, Citroen, wants to sell right around the world – potentially in Australia ... ... http://europe.autonews.com/article/20160303/BLOG15/160309933/citroens-e-mehari-not-a-big-seller-but-a-clever-marketing-tool Citroen's E-Mehari not a big seller, but a clever marketing tool March 3, 2016 Citroen does not expect it ... to become a high-volume seller, but the launch instead could serve as clever way to promote Citroen's uniqueness as a brand http://europe.autonews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/galleryimage/CA/20160301/GENEVA_AUTO_SHOW/301009978/PH/0/3/PH-301009978.jpg&Maxw=615 ... [dated] http://insideevs.com/citroen-e-mehari-debuts-real-electric-goes-sale-2016/ Citroen E-Mehari: It’s Real, It’s All Electric, It’s Weird And It Goes On Sale In 2016 [Dec 2015] http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/citreon-e-maheri-3-750x432.jpg http://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/e-mehari/first-drive First drive: Citroen’s e-Mehari, a convertible electric car 19 Mar 2016 Dan Read [images http://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/styles/1024w/public/images/cars-road-test/inline-gallery/2016/03/0b37befbcceb1b5c178fd6ea3c5eac43/_g5e8148.jpg?itok=ZtLA_gVh (under hood) http://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/styles/1024w/public/images/cars-road-test/inline-gallery/2016/03/8ae3bfacc019efeeb6a4fe933c82fb7d/_g5e8153.jpg?itok=4h4OnxlJ (driver select) http://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/styles/1024w/public/images/cars-road-test/inline-gallery/2016/03/c9e593bdf11de016ac41b8e6d255aaad/_g5e8162.jpg?itok=nZ3Gochl (dash knobs) ] What’s this weirdo? The Citroen E-Mehari, the modern, all-electric interpretation of the original Mehari. That was an open-top, plastic-bodied beach buggy based on the 2CV, and a classic example of Citroen at its quirkiest. Tell us more… This modern-day iteration wears a Citroen costume, but it’s actually based on something called the Bollore Blue Summer. Bollore is a small French company which evidently lets its designers take long and boozy lunch breaks. Is it a proper beach buggy like the old one? Well, it does have a hose-down interior. So you could take it on the sand, but you would most likely become stuck and people will point at you. This is because it’s only two-wheel drive, and weighs 1,400kg. How come? The bodywork is plastic and the roof is fabric – so far, so light – but the chassis is made from steel and it has to lug around a load of heavy batteries. Is it slow, then? Actually it zips along pretty nicely. It might only produce a maximum of 50KW, equivalent to about 67bhp, but like all electric cars it gives you everything right from the off. So it’s nippy from 0-40mph but becomes less enthusiastic as you approach its 70mph top speed. Does it drive well? By the standards of most modern cars, and even some old ones, no. It sits high on its springs and corners like a small fishing trawler – in fact it rolls so much, you end up leaning into the bends like a biker. But despite this, it’s too hard over rough or lumpy roads. The worst of both worlds, in other words. This isn’t going well… I’m just getting the bad bits out of the way. So while I’m at it: the interior feels properly home-made, when you open the doors they creak, it has no airbags at all, the steering wheel looks like something from a kit-car and, when the roof is on (a 10-minute job for two blokes), it feels like you’re sitting inside an especially steamy grow-bag. Granted, we drove a pre-production car, but that only excuses a certain amount. Is there a ‘but’ coming? The e-Mehari is not a car you would consider buying – it’s very unlikely it will even be sold in the UK – but it’s certainly one you would consider hiring. Citroen is concentrating sales in France, Spain and Italy, especially to rental companies and holiday resorts around the coats and islands. And if you saw this on the menu next to the usual dull hatchbacks, and with the kids tugging at your trouser legs while pointing at the picture, you will be struck by a sudden impulse to have one. Will I regret it? For a few days, you’ll probably love it. The fact it’s a convertible electric car, the first of its sort (apart from the Blue Summer of course), is a huge novelty. In many ways it’s like the jeep (with a small J) you begged your dad to get on childhood holidays. Even though it’s objectively rubbish compared to your everyday runabout back home, you’ll forgive it because the sun’s out, the roof’s off, you’re on holiday, and who cares what the handling is like anyway? What if I do actually want to buy one? Citroen reckons it will sell a few to people with holiday homes, to keep in the garage for a bit of fun while for a few weeks a year. These people will need to be quite rich – which they probably are if they have holiday homes – because the e-Mehari costs about 28,000 euros (£22k), minus any government subsidies for electric car purchases. That’s nearly as much as a BMW i3. Anything else? The batteries are the lithium polymer sort – rather than the more sophisticated lithium ion – so they must be kept at a steady 68 degrees and charged every 48 hours to avoid complete depletion. But with the second-car-for-holiday-home thing in mind, the e-Mehari has a ‘hibernate mode’, which allows it to be parked for three to four months without being plugged in. Just one more question. What’s a Mehari anyway? It’s a type of dromedary camel known for its speed, historically used by desert armies who would use them to form vast camel cavalries. [© topgear.com] ... [dated] http://www.topgear.com/car-news/future-tech/citroens-e-mehari-hose-down-ev-weve-been-waiting Citroen’s e-Mehari is the hose-down EV we’ve been waiting for 8 Dec 2015 All-electric, retro-referencing four-seater is Citroen at its eccentric best For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-25k-Citroen-E-Mehari-EV-Goes-on-Sale-r-200km-ts-110kph-v-tp4681162.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
