For me a battery electric vehicle does not need to look like a goofy toy. BobK
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 6:09 PM Gail Lucas via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190108/af20e0a5/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
