Renault Twizy

[lee]

If they are this bad BEFORE they've got your money what happens afterwards!!

[Joseph C.]

Hi Joseph.

I've never really thought about it, I bet they are expensive enough ?

I bet it would be far more efficient than a bicycle, the mac would accelerate pretty fast in that! It would greatly improve aerodynamics. I like the ones where you are enclosed because of our horrible weather.

I was just thinking on how I was being blown around yesterday in the wind, it's a huge issue here of course and the Velomobile looks the job.

I don't think I would feel safe on our broken narrow roads ? and of course we have no cycle lanes.

How easy are they to cycle I wonder ?

You're asking the wrong person but I would imagine that a trike is much easier to cycle than a bicycle.

The advantage of a Velomobile is that they are naturally very fast. It wouldn't look out of place to be doing 60 plus kilometres per hour (well it probably would but you could explain it to a guard). One guy on this forum built his for under 4k using an electrified recumbent trike. It would be very hard not to notice one. Using a flag with lights the only people you would have to worry about would be sociopaths.

[Dingo2024]

maybe this could be another option in the UK.....(I have no connection nor experience of the company)

http://www.elecscoot.co.uk/products.php?type=car

no lease etc. mentioned in the pricing and apparently available now?

Ian

[Joseph C.]

maybe this could be another option in the UK.....(I have no connection nor experience of the company)

http://www.elecscoot.co.uk/products.php?type=car

no lease etc. mentioned in the pricing and apparently available now?

Ian

They're expensive enough for what may well be dodgy Chinese engineering. Plus all the pictures are of left-hand drive models. I like their 300 mile van for 23,500 sterling. The 300 mile three-wheeler for 15k though would fall over going around corners.

Nevertheless, it still is back to quality. Are they any good?

Good find Dingo.

[Matthijs]

The battery must be around £3000,- with a 10% per year write off like in the Dutch document. Renault must have an english version of this document somewhere. I hope I can find it or someone can try to call the UK importer for more information. How is it possible that the Dutch are ahead on this stuff?

[lee]

I was told by a renault dealership to insure the battery for £8k. Now admittedly they are totally incompetent and 99% of what I have been told to date by them is inaccurate BUT does anyone out there actually know what a battery is valued at. It's unbelievable that the information isn't on the website or in a brochure given that it's the buyers responsibility to insure it.

[lee]

just spoke to customer relations manager on 08000723372 (under contacts on renault.co.uk) She didn't know cost of battery, but she had sit in a Twizy and was hoping to go for test drive in the near future. She said she would hopefully get back to me tomorrow or tuesday at the latest because monday was a bank holiday! I'll keep you posted

[wojtek]

i have been driving twizy few months back, the weaker version in the hall [inside]

great experience i must say! one nice thing about it is, that you have quite powerful e-vehile that is completely road legal with insurance and all [if you go for the more powerful one]. or people living in "police countries", that is important

it is very nice refined vehicles, fun to drive.

But forget the passenger seat- good for small person for 10 minutes...
however perfect to commute to work everyday.

im planning to test it on road next week!

[lee]

the cheapest insurance i can find for the Twizy is £597 with Renault insurance. Mainly because all of my no claims is being used on my main car. Its a bloody lot of money for a cheap electric contraption. Why is it insurance group 10 anyway? The vw UP is group one. I thought the world was trying to encourage us all to go green.

[Lebowski]

I've seen 2 Twizies in the wild now in the last 3 days seem to be doing well here

[Chalo]

I think if electric cars were much better insulated they wouldn't need so much heat. For instance the spray foam type of insulation theta's becoming more common here is truly fantastic and something like that should be used in cars I think ?

Insulation doesn't work unless the enclosure being insulated is pretty close to airtight. And if a car is nearly airtight, all the windows will fog over when it's cold. Then you'll need lots of heat and forced air to defog them.

Chalo

[TylerDurden]

And if a car is nearly airtight, all the windows will fog over when it's cold. Then you'll need lots of heat and forced air to defog them.

Moreover, even with dessication (via A/C), outside air is required to keep windows clear, when outside temperatures are cold.

You can always tell when someone on the road is using the re-circulation feature in the winter... their windows are fogged, but they aren't wearing gloves.

[nechaus]

id buy one and make it 50/75kw

i love this thing, looks unreal

[o00scorpion00o]

BUMP!

Anyone have one yet ?

I haven't seen one at all and 0 Renault dealers have one here!

It's about the same price as a bomber, but 50 Euros a month battery rental. But I would rather the Twizy.

I wonder if the Twizy controller could be hacked ?