Renault Twizy Electric Car review - Fifth Gear
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- The New Renault Twizy Electric car is the Cheapest Electric car available but is it worth bothering with, Fifth Gear Investigates.
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Am i the only one here who would seriously love to drive that thing? i would love it on a racing circuit with a gulf color scheme! lol!
me too... but to bad Singapore not approve yet for the car..
I love that car
Cliftdn Richardson
The basic colour is fine. i think that what i would like is option for a add on trunk. i have seen crazy concept pic. Maybe i can be used to store secondary battery as an option or luggage.
oh. i know what. a secondary structural battery that can be use as a trunk
Biggest problem of the review of this vehicle is treating it as a car which will instantly highlight all the things it is not. It is not a car, it is more like a moped with four wheels. Treating it like a moped will bring forth all the things it actually is. Which is more safe than a moped, more stable, electric, fun, room for a second person which will not need to cling on to you for dear life. etc. Especially that, just loads of et cetera. However... This is Fifth Gear. I imagine the job interviews would include soaking yourself in petrol and catwalk in front of Jeremy Clarkson. But to take the edge out of the irony, spite and sarcasm I will end on a positive note: Bicycle.
can I just say, this is basically a BMW C1 with two more wheels, two more door and equipped with a electric motor.
Is it journalism to show the disadvantages only? Please also tell that the Twizy consumes 90 percent less energy as a traditional car, is noiseless, has no emission, and takes very little space on streets.
Btw from where you have the electricity ? how its made a battery ?
Batteries are an essential component of hybrids. Regenerative braking lets hybrids generate and store their own energy to power the vehicle at low speeds and while idling. Unfortunately, both nickel-hydride batteries and the newer lithium-ion batteries rely on the mining of nickel, copper and so-called rare earth metals. The production of lithium-ion batteries account for 2 to 5 percent of total lifetime hybrid emissions and nickel-hydride batteries are responsible for higher sulfur oxide emissions, roughly 22 pounds (10 kilograms) per hybrid compared with 2.2 pounds (about 1 kilogram) for a conventional vehicle www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.php
Robert Schulze It's electric. Nuff said.
Robert Schulze £45 .00 is a lot to pay for renting a battery .
And having no windows is a major drawback
The Twizy makes a lot more sense when you realize that it's a super-scooter. Granted, it's really expensive for a scooter. Having a petrol version would lower the price a bit and get rid of the battery lease.
I got to drive one recently on a nice sunny day and it was pretty fun. The one I was in had zip up clear plastic covers to take the place of windows for bad weather though. It was like the canvas and windows on a boat. Not the most elegant, but it does solve the issue of being protected from the weather at least.
With 1) Windows 2) Air conditioning 3) More power 4) Better range , SOLD !
A Han - that’ll be a Renault ZOE!
@@robhines4537 a "ZOE" Doesn't look as cool and quite frankly looks naff compared to the Twizy :)
there is a window option for those living under agressive climate, why not mentioning it?
Absolutely! Especially in the UK where it rains a lot.. Also it would be very insecure when left in a busy street all night.
But the windows aren’t a complete seal. Just stop a bit more of the rain
@@jamesjetty625 Their is a 3rd party option that is a complete seal. 99% anyway.
Probably wasn’t an option when they made the review?
James Stimpson That is a fair point as this would have been one of the first produced.
There are companies out there that make custom windows for these things but even still, as mentioned in the video, these little guys should not be seen as cars but as a more luxurious alternative to a scooter.
But it is very expensive when compared to a scooter. Excluding the battery rental its base price is about 3 times that of a new scooter.
missing the point vicky, its way safer than a bike, and is a very practical alternative.
yup a very expensive bike, tesla cars are so amazing compared to this one
@@thebookofwhitewalkers4610 They're a bit more expensive. -.-
rain, wind, cold, smallest thing in traffic, polution : welcome to motorcycle world ! :D
If this had 30% more range, windows and A/C I would buy it, but deamn is like they don't want us to change to Electric.
Why would you want A/C in that car?
There are third party windows and even a little heater available and since it's only for the city and you can recharge at work or at home the range isnt necessary. You wouldn't go on the highway with it would yoz
You can get it with Windows
£45 a month for batteries, that's more than I spend on petrol for my Citroen c1 a month! Nice idea and looks cute but the biggest problem with it, especially living in the UK is lack of windows! How crazy not to include them!
There is window accessores available now for the Twizy
then why don't they get it as standard, instead of ruining everyone's day.
fisioserv bc it costs money to make them?
£500 for doors extra. Screw them.
Strongly considering this as an option for my "second car" my commute to work is just a bit too long to cycle and my wife would benefit from the main car being available at home. I recon I could lease one for the cost of petrol per month, BUT the battery lease is putting me off, I wonder if that is separate to in a lease...
cute motorcycle on 4 wheels ;)
Auttie B quadrocycle
I got a 96 Camry for a fraction on that price but am still gonna get one for bragging rights 😂
Does the Twizy have a drain plug so rainwater can get out if you're forced to drive in a storm?
why dont they make a new version with side windows
She's getting a feel of what it's like to cycle in London, just without the effort, sweatiness and filtering, lol. I think it might be good for more drivers to get such an experience to realise how smelly exhausts are and how scary it is to be passed too close.
Old video and mutch have changed, window issue fixed with new one released. Noise can be fixed with airplugs. A loud soundsystem in your ordinary car makes you deaf to noise around. Driving a motorcycle all year long the wind sound around the helmet is so loud you can absolutly loose your hearing. So plugs are sold to cut down on the noise in every motorcycle shop. Also common for people on Scooter/Motorcycle to play music to drown out the noise. No problem with freezing around 0C on a motorcycle with infrared powerbank driven heated clothes. My wife just bought a Twizy however. She saves on expensive toll through undersea tunnel, since it's free for the Twizy in Norway. The Twizy is the future, brilliant.
lack of windows = deal breaker!
I've loved Vicky for years :-)
I found this to be an informative and fair review, and though the lack of windows from factory can be cured easily I like the way you have to breathe in the same air and have the same deafening sound as the pedestrians and cyclists around you.
+Alexis The Player Of Games Boom The lack of windows wouldn't be so nice when it's winter and -20 C outside. :)
David Comaniciu I'd wrap up warm which is not hard to do in this thing, also Renault sell a thick waterproof fleece lined cover to go around yourself when it _does_ get cold.
Also, ten seconds of Google would have shown you that you can get both factory and aftermarket windows for this quadricycle too - bfy.tw/3Omy 😉
i like the twizy but go 0:51 for a real car.
Looks like someone doesn't like looking into the details.
1) The battery is rented for 3 years for the longest lease, can be rented up to a year.
2) A softer suspension would equate to bouncy, unstable and unperforming handling (older Smart ForTwo for example).
3) The windowless doors can come with a manufacturer or third-party aftermarket windows. The car that is aimed to be an alternative to motorbikes, scooters and bikes. A lack of doors never stopped them from being popular.
is their any possible way of getting all the fifth gear seasons on a DVD
Marry me, Vicki! :) Seriously though...your videos are most entertaining!
1:25 why is it a pixel gun 3d background music 😂
I wanna buy it will it come with a steering wheel or is that also 'optional extra'?
Having no windows is a big short fall in the UK. May as well have a quad bike.
waiting to buy it in Toronto
How do you lock the car ?
well renault...
WHERE ARE THE WINDOWS?!
french engineering
there is a window option for those living under agressive climate,
Tiwey LP, motorbikes don't have windows! Think of it as a four wheeled bike. It's not a car....
Looks like a lot of fun to drive though?
why it costs 6000-7000£. I better buy used car for same $10k
If there's one thing about Renault, it's that it likes to be wild once in awhile, it likes to have balls of its own rather than balancing the spreadsheet like BMW and its i3 and i8.
The Twizy is a respectful resurrection from its concept counterpart years back. Same doors, shape, idea.
If that doesn't ring a bell, maybe you might've heard of Renault's AVANTIME. That's argued to be a modern relic and the flamboyant masterpiece of its time (decade), hence its name.
this is the way that you explain that you wont change the old drive style!! its not a practical view
I should've been more direct. Yeah, what I was referring to way how revolutionary the Avantime and Twizy were stylistically. I like the fact how designers can style a production car however they wish without restriction of market purpose or drivetrain requirements. Look what happened to the poor Austin Allegro.
That's what makes a car cool, in my opinion at the very least.
They sell windows now. I've been driving motos for more than 10 years (Madrid and Hong Kong) and I would absolutely buy one because of the falls (my last accident 5 broken bones). But I live in the very center of the city, in a flat, no parking, no chance to plug it in. For 6k euros (plus the batteries rental which is clearly a minus) it is cheap and safe.
You said it right when you see it as better than a scooter. However, it surely CAN be a replacement for a car for some people. I can use a golf cart on the streets where I am to get to most conveniences including medical care. BUT, a Twizy with it's more practical range and speed would be a no-brainer for me and the price would be little more than the cost of a golf cart. Will we be able to buy them in the U.S.?
Would be cool if it had heating/cooling and if it’s available in the US
It's caaled both the Scoot and the Nissan New Mobility Concept in the US.
Dominos pizza deliver in these
Interesting Dominoes you have, which area you in?
MuzzaHukka yes
As long as it's not raining.
@@ncdave4life That doesn't matter, does it? In most urban areas deliveries are done by scooter in just about any weather.
Does anyone knows the song from 03:34?
Why don't they put some side visors on it? Might help a "little" bit.
That little car is excellent!
Moans about windows even though you can buy them
No Twizy in North America. Since i lusted after one so much. i just pretend to be driving one when i am in my Prius. Wish that my Prius gauges are more spartan and minimalist. Maybe a white on black type LED. I even turn off the AC and open the windows to emulate the no AC feel. of course i give up when it’s actually hot or too Sunny for direct sunlight.
So it's a golf kart
this ´´car´´ is not a fail at all ... it´s perfect for daily use in cities .. and cheap enough for an electric vehicle
I have one here in Berlin, of course I use it only during springs/summers when is really warm here, but a city car in UK with no windows is just ridiculous.
+Das Böse The no windows are a problem... Trust me....
You can get aftermarket windows for this, but I didn't use them because it reminds me of the terrible air quality in cities around the UK.
It's a excellent car, but they should simple upgrade it. The doors without windows is really confusing. Why would 2 doors really needed if 1 door with windows could be so much better. Many people are also with their privacy stuffs and also when they are doing shopping, they can't carry with them along. And about the heating for the cold and even for cooling they could attach some solar system on the roof.
Well made - infomative and funny at the same time - video, thanks!
No windows ? What a joke 🤣😂
If the doors were standard and had windows to completely shield the driver from the weather, I think they'll sell way more of these..
you can actually get it with some optional "windows" now...
£45 a month to rent the battery put me right off and I was seriously considering getting one.
You can buy the battery.
A 2012-15 models battery will cost you 450-1300€
@@raupenimmersatt6906 But my diesel bill comes to only £35 a month.
I am shoked how the car has no windows?
This thing is obviously a CITY car and yet people still take it on the highway? It's like the SMART car here in the USA they tell you City only but at least it goes the speed limit on the hwy. Although I've heard the hwy driving is not that enjoyable.
I am very interesting EV Car.
How can I purchasing ?
Give information to me
Right now. Tweezy is like a scooter with a 1/2 roof. 6 tears ago i had a PGO G-max 200 it could do 100 km/h and do 34km/liter . I think the tweezy should have a optional door so you can cerp dry during rain. And an optional dobbel battery so if you need it you can drive 175 km range. Or you could use the extra 6KW for heating. Like i say. Its cooler in the nordic. But i like the ide. But it is like all other electric cars not sutible for nordic condidions. Maybee they are in 5 years.
Vikki butler- Henderson I still would the little minx
So, your reason why the Twizy isn't suitable up there is that it doesn't have windows, which a scooter doesn't off either and in which the scooter also doesn't offer a roof too?
I wish they would bring this car to america.
(1) It's true gasoline engines are victorian age tech, however so too is the electric motor - since circa 1880. (2).Greenercars (an environmentalist website) rates cars' full lifecycle pollution (from factory to recycling) (well-to-wheel fuel usage). They rate most EVs as no cleaner than a Prius. The large Tesla and Rav4 EVs score quite low.... less than a Jetta diesel sedan and all the various hybrids.
i want one
Aluminium Air Co UK - 100% electric 'NO charging required' 700 miles range.
I know it's an old video....but why would you take this car (or any car, really) on the highway to Heathrow if you could just take the tube? Seems a bit daft, no?
Here in Norway we can Get Windows
Maybe you could rent some windows as well
Well it is SO weird that you have to pay for the doors and that there's no windows in the doors that you pay for. But if more of these are on the road then it wouldn't be so daunting to be driving them in and around the roads of the world.
It's now 2018 so my comments might not be valid but anyhow, you mentioned you wouldn't take your child, it's a single seater where would they sit?, only 60 miles per charge isn't very impressive, price seems alittle steep, hopefully in the 5 yrs. since then and now some of these items have been addressed, all-in-all it still looks like fun to drive on a sunny day...
Damn, if this thing had windows I'd buy it right now. I can get it for 4500 euros in my country because it's an electric.
Too bad rain exists, I really want something like this, it would be great for going to work and back every day (hard to find parking at work and about 25km away)
You can get zip-on windows as an optional extra.
Double the range and put windows on it and loose the backseat because if your rear-ended your passengers dead
I can't understand why they put an option for a windowsless door.
Safety?
So basically, this was a hit piece. This chick just went on and on about what it wasn't designed for, and talked about nothing but negatives. Not a fair review at all.
I don't know, the negatives mentioned here are solved by driving taking poor British roads into consideration and using the aftermarket windows 😊
+Ima SuperPerson Except the negatives were justified, and she actually liked the car...
Would be great as an Italian city car but not for Ireland.
I did something very similar, new plans from Avasva helped me with this.
What I think it needs is proper windows; heck why not use plastic or plexiglass if glass was too heavy?
i think its to get that scooter free feel
Impreza
Then why no a electric scooter altogether? I might as well drive a Twizy with a helmet in that case.
Trades46 idk, french cars are weird anyways, especially the new Cactus
There are zip-on windows as optional extras.
Nevertheless, this might be "it". What Elon Musk doesn't realize is that not just combustion engines are obsolete, but also the car as we know it. People don't need a 50K car with leather seats and cupholders with an electric motor in it, people just want electric transportation that takes them from point A to point B and there's nothing else to the vehicle.
What is this thing about being on the motorway and not being able to "accelerate out of trouble"? Is this a thing? Accelerating to get out of trouble? I thought you brake to get out of trouble.
+Kishgofu Say you're whizzing down the motorway and come up behind a slow moving vehicle which you need to get past or you'll both be there until dinnertime. Check the next lane is clear, indicate, move out and accelerate. Best to do it pretty pronto as by now other lane traffic will be bearing down on you and the last thing you need is to be beside the slow mover with no oomph to get ahead of him. You will be trampled in the stampede and given some vigorous hand signals! That's the danger you need to accelerate out of. :-)
smike09100 I still don't completely understand why (if both are so slow) that one needs to overtake. just be patient maybe? avoid trouble? simple to me.
+Kishgofu Oh absolutely, there's a lot to be said for just taking it easy and not getting one's hair in a twist, lol, but sometimes in order to maintain a smooth traffic flow it's best to enable a fairly constant - not fast, just constant - road speed. Bottlenecks build up within minutes when one lane is virtually out of action. Now everyone will be overtaking on the outside lanes with less room and higher speeds involved. Varying speed limit signs do help but progressive driving is all about 'constancy'. And patience! (And I wouldn't do any of it in a Twizy!)
+Kishgofu I can see clearly you are not a driver. Thanks. Bye.
Luis Aya You don't want me to reply? I wonder why? You just want to get a last word in? Can't even form a sentence? Scared of being wrong? Do you even know what socratic reasoning is? Please respond, I love to teach.
it needs windows all i can say
There is a Twizy chassis for sale at EUR550, I should get that and fit a gasoline motor, from an R1 or something. Then, turn up at a Twizy meet. Hippies are gonna hate!
Do it and upload a video!
GingerHamster19 Need funds. I'm saving up for a student exchange to America next year. If you want to fund me, I can build it.
I don't want to see it that much lol
GingerHamster19 Well it is only 500 Euros, I'll source the engine myself
MuzzaHukka if its only 500 then you cando it yourself, mad if you think im guna send some that I don't know 500 euros
where the f@cking window ?
that's the problem, where are the windows?!?!?!!!!
well....give me some pounds and lemme buy it
Silly not speccing it with windows in England. Makes no sense
little need car... but i live in the nordic.. so no windovs.. and no heat... hmm i guess il buy a scooter then..
These need windows. Noise and rain. I wouldn't want this without it.
+chadergeist It's not a care; it's more like a scooter with a roof.
What is a "care"?
No doors? Wouldn't even pass the DOT in the USA.
That would be great for me but I dont want to rent the batteries , theres no proper doors and theres no windows so its useless in the winter. Give me doors and windows and dont rent the batteries and I would love it.
pour la ville c est top car petite rue et voiture garer pffffff sa craint pour passer
Need this, and this and safety... and get full car... This is not the car!
Still a cool "car"!
Looks like renault couldn't decide if they wanted to make a car or a motorcycle.
There is now a glass window available in the twizzy
I've got one, they're made for the Nissan version of the Twizy really, but they do the job.
But they're plastic windows. save on weight.
Take a bike ride for short distance. You must be crazy to drive this car in busy London or Paris....
No speaker for pedestrians with disabilities to hear you coming? At least Fiat is the only one bothering to add this to there Fiat electric model. Even the Prius, neighbors here think you can hear them coming and that's before they almost run you over on your homes side street.
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