Point remains, the Italians conquered the city car market in the 1950’s and, seventy years later,they’re still world leaders. Albeit closely followed by the Japanese.
You swerved that path because you wanted bigger cars and the car manufacturers “needed” the bigger profits that come from complexit and size.
Can you imagine the size and weight of the battery required (and the resulting fire when hit) to power one of these?
And I suppose they'd have to use diesel generators to charge them in the field during a conflict.
On a similar note 100 mph police chases could be much shorter when they're all driving EVs
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Not slower (or much shorter) if they were both at the helm of one of these!!!....................0-60 mph in 1.89 seconds, 0-100 mph in 3.84........Tops out at 205 mph...... 1,234 hp and yet an EPA-estimated range of 427 miles on a single charge ........when not driven like this.Shorter... and slower
. The Lucid Air Sapphire.
Not slower (or much shorter) if they were both at the helm of one of these!!!....................0-60 mph in 1.89 seconds, 0-100 mph in 3.84........Tops out at 205 mph...... 1,234 hp and yet an EPA-estimated range of 427 miles on a single charge ........when not driven like this.
(largely due to the 118 kWh battery?) ...
I’d agree, the comparison with a Ka is fairer, particularly on spec. Can’t say I can compare how they drive as in the Zoe’s case I find wearing a balaclava whilst driving quite irritating.
300,000 Zoe’s sold in Europe doesn’t look like a failure. Overtaken by Tesla and The Koreans, for sure, but ias a small city car it’s generally viewed as being a small city car.
Nope, they’d explain that making bicycles, motorcycles and Kei cars NCAP compliant would be a perfect example of bureaucrats losing sight of their objective.Actually that's a good point - you'd think the Japanese would come up with a way to make electric kei cars NCAP compliant??
Big in Japan: Here’s why this tiny electric kei car is all the rage
The Sakura, a microcar from Nissan and Mitsubishi which launched last year, has become the top-selling EV in Japan, beating out Tesla.
Not slower (or much shorter) if they were both at the helm of one of these!!!....................0-60 mph in 1.89 seconds, 0-100 mph in 3.84........Tops out at 205 mph...... 1,234 hp and yet an EPA-estimated range of 427 miles on a single charge ........when not driven like this.
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I did say Europe. Hard to see Zoe's in the UK because of the great hordes of Teslas, VW's, Leafs, MINIs, Kias and Hyundai stood in front of those little town cars.
BMW claimed to have sold their 500,000th EV at the beginning of last year. (Global, to include i3, MINI and all the others.
