In a similar vein (small city car), Arcimoto is going into retail production Q2 of this year:
https://www.arcimoto.com/videos/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181227005375/en/ I'll be arranging a test drive soon to see how well I fit, and how comfortable/safe I feel in our PDX traffic (I did a pre-order deposit some years ago). Note that we have two used LEAFs in our family already, but even those are kinda overkill for single-driver commuting. Regards, Marion ________________________________ From: EV <[email protected]> on behalf of Gail Lucas via EV <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:09:33 PM To: EVDL Administrator via EV Cc: Gail Lucas Subject: Re: [EVDL] Rant&Rave: not charging in an EVSE spot> extremely frustrating I had forgotten about the Twizy. Found this funny video of one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2z1LXbxzE It is a car I would like but would want it to be self-driving. On 1/8/2019 12:04 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > > I doubt that we'll ever see anything like the Renault Twizy, for example, in > US auto showrooms. However, it's a modest seller in Europe, Asia (at least > in South Korea), and the Middle East. > > But then the Twizy costs Eur 10k+, not Eur 100k+. > > It's also seen as a fun car, economical, and environmentally friendly. > Europeans especially seem to be more willing to pay for those factors than > Americans. > > It helps too that their safety standards are more flexible, and they don't > have the preponderance of gigantic SUVs and pickups that we have here. > (IMO, despite often aggressive and impatient other drivers, driving any tiny > car on European roads is less stressful than driving one here.) > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
