Electric One-Seater Built for Urban Delivery
Is your package too big for a bicycle, but too small for a truck?
Dodging peak hour traffic, avoiding unmindful pedestrians and negotiating road rage - all the while exposed to the elements - are part of a day's work for the average city bicycle courier. With this in mind, Renault has put together the 'Twizy Cargo'. First presented in concept mode at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2009, and now on the market, it's a one-seater electric car with an over-sized boot, designed to make urban delivery easier, faster and safer.
Sharing the convenience associated with a bicycle, with its small size enabling parking in the tiniest of spots, the Twizy also offers a seatbelt, an airbag and a sealed cabin. In other words, protection from the weather and from crazy drivers whose legal access to a licence remains a mystery to us all. Plus, it's super cheap to run.
The boot has a 180-litre capacity and can handle weights of up to 75 kilograms. It might not be able to take an elephant, but it can certainly handle more than a party's worth of pizzas. And the doors open to a blissful 90 degree angle. So there's no more trying to prop the door open with your leg while juggling boxes and keys.
Two versions of the Twizy Cargo are currently available. The granny-style 'MA L6e' has a maximum speed of 45 km/hr and is selling for $US10,433; while the more rock-starrish 'MB L7e' can handle speeds of up to 80km/hr and retails at $US11,337. Both require a Renault-rented battery, which comes in at about $US65 per month.
[via PSFK]
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