If it was £9,500 then it would sell like hot cakes, but we know that'll never happen. If they ever did bring it to the UK they'd try and sell it at £16,500, wonder why nobody bought one and then discontinue it after 2 years.
I'm wondering why someone would buy this even at that vs spending a bit more and getting a year old smart eq with more power, usable speed and refinements. (we just bought a year old forfour for £12k).
Definitely a need for a proper small 4 door EV in the £15k price bracket, the current EV market does seem to be dominated by hulking great SUV's geared towards the US and company car market.
Almost no kei car has ever been sold in uk, Japanese companies presume they wont sell anywhere in Europe, or not worth it due to small profit margins. ive hire a kei car in japan, a honda n box on japan and really wanted one, but car companies want us to buy SUV's not small cars, it'd be very hefty to import one from japan btw
As a kei-car owner, I can confirm the size is really great, turning the circle is outstanding. I would totally buy one of these (Australian here). Gotta disagree about the handbrake, I'll take a manual handbrake every day, electric ones are just weird, no thanks :-)
@@panzerveps 100% with you bud :-). I drive a 2022 Daihatsu Hijet at the moment and it's bloody brilliant. If it had an electric drivetrain it would be near perfect (for me anyway)
It’s overprised for what it is. Even the Wulings are more car for the money. What should Toyota trying to build instead?! Take the size of the first Aygo, put a battery in it that reaches up to 250-300km and let the car as being quick, that you can use it even on a highway. Otherwise the car is no real replacement for an ICE.
@@Benjamin_Jehne All fair points, yeah range, functionality and price are always going to be the pain points. It's a shame Toyota are dragging their heels on this one, they could smash this segment if they wanted to. I love my Hijet Jumbo, it can fit a full size motorcycle in the back, longer tray than every dual cab ute in Australia, which is insane when you consider how tiny it is. Plenty of room inside, hell even the wife loves it :-). Not for everyone, but fantastic for me and all my tradie mates laughed at first, then they sit in it, then they go for a drive, then they're not laughing, they're pissed they wasted money three times the money on a Hilux ;-)
If this car came out in the US for less than $10,000 I would absolutely buy it. It also feels like a car designed in the late 90s early 2000s and I'm all for it
Every car maker wants to be like "okay here's your stupidly expensive and stupidly large SUV or truck, enjoy" and just no, I don't want that. Get some small sedans or hatchbacks, I don't need 200+miles of range and vehicle to grid or load, I need something like the Nissan Leaf but with a liquid heating and cooling system for the battery so it can deal with winter. And then there's Tesla who doesn't have a clue what quality control even is, no thanks
That's what you might need, but you are not the measure of the world. I don't need it. I need a car that can travel 1,000 kilometers on a single charge and which can be charged to 95% in 10 minutes or less. As such an electric car does not exist, I will happily stick with my diesel SUV.
@@mjc0961have an EV but i would like to have the option to buy one without any powersteering, electric windows,electric handbrake and other stupid accesories that makes a car more expensive,heavier and less reliable
I am a retiree and in 1978 I bought a new Honda Civic. I also had a huge American car at the time, a Lincoln Town Car to be exact, but I found myself driving the Honda most of the time. It was small, cheap, and fun to drive. The EV approach used here in Canada is more of a tail-wagging-the dog way of doing things. Our market is dominated and basically controlled by American car companies that are focused on providing expensive EVs for a niche market. If the Chinese vehicles were allowed into our market I would seriously consider a small EV for a city car and keep my larger gas powered vehicle for winter and long distance travels. Loads of little vehicles on the road would be a driving force for the installation of charging stations, which are almost non-existent here in Canada. The current economic war that the West has against China will almost certainly keep their vehicles out of the North American market which is a black eye for the climate change initiative. I have little concerns from a safety perspective due to slow driving speeds and the fact that any car is safer to drive than a motorcycle.
It is a shame car2go is not a thing anymore. It would be great not to own a vehicle when you use it so sparingly, especially with everyone working from home these days
My daily driver is a Fiat 500e, previous generation than the current one. They can be had for cheap if you can find one. They were compliance cars for California. Definitely in the same spirit as the Gen 1 Civic, which is one of my all time favorite cars.
In Australia we are getting cheap Chinese electric. But they seem to be jacking the price just because it's electric. May as well just buy a base Tesla.
The fact that you can buy a brand new car for around £10k in a developed country like Japan just shows you how much we have the piss taken out of us in the UK
£10k is way too much for this, I can't believe those parts add up... it's a motor and 4 wheels + seat + batteries. The 9kwh battery is probably £2k of it.
@@MrTwoZZTIt's been literally forty years since I had to repair a faulty manual handbrake. I'm sure it happens but what about the issues with electronic handbrakes? They're just the latest gimmick by car designers.
I don't really like the car, but I do like the big chunky buttons and basic interior. I wish you could get something like it in normal modern cars, instead of layers of menus and strokey buttons.
I was driving in Japan 3 months ago; Most cities have a 30kph speed limit. In the countryside it's 50kph unless you are on a Toll Road (there are a lot!) or a motorway. In most cities you can not buy a car unless you can show you have a off road parking space for it. The roads are fantastic everywhere, smooth and excellent markings.
There’s only 2 true car-dependent prefectures in Japan. The island of Okinawa and Hokkaido. The literal bottom and top prefectures of the nation geolocation wise. Those 2 do not have a extensive rail networks and thus, majority of destinations are car-dependent. The rest of the prefectures, 99% of destinations relevant to most city go-ers are in walk+rail distance. Worst case, just hail a taxi.
I drive an IQ.. great car, certainly much better than this soulless dross. I get 61 mpg and 330 miles to a tank and under 3 minutes to fill up! - No backwards step for me. I'll keep my IQ going, especially as it's zero rated for rfl and does great mpg. I can carry 4 people too... lets not go backwards but make petrol cars more efficient. No soulless driving for me... what a horrible looking thing. How long did he say it takes to charge?
Its interesting that when the second gen of EVs in the late 2000s came out, they were small urban vehicles. Honda Fit, iMiev, BMW Mini E, etc. Everyone made fun of them and declared their impracticality. Given that in the USA about 90% of all miles driven is below 30-40 per day, urban vehicles made sense. Now, especially in Fully Charged, we are seeing new found respect for these tiny machines. They always made sense, but I suppose, everything in its time.
Honda Fit is the most practical car I ever have been into. Having the ability to lower the back seats to the floor level basically turns it into a small van, a feature that I actually used a few times. Even if I had the money, I would still choose the Fit over pickup trucks or SUVs. Just more convenient and fun to drive.
@@user-pq4by2rq9y For me its the VW up! or Skoda Citigo. Both are perfect for me. I would buy an electric one if they had active battery cooling, so that longer drives without too much time spent at the charging stations would be possible. I'm waiting (im)patiently on the VW id2 and Skoda Elroq. They should be around the size of a Polo/Fabia, which is just about perfect for me.
The only reason I wouldn't want one of these tiny machines for my daily commute in the US is because I'd be afraid of being killed by all these oversized and overweight trucks and SUVs driving around. CAFE has really screwed things up here. Otherwise yeah, I drive about 25 miles if I just go to work and back, maybe 30-35 if I go run some errands after work. I wish we could get some good plug-in hybrids with decent range. The ones here all seem to be advertised at 20-30 miles, so you know real world is going to be lower than that, and that's not quite enough for me to get to work and back without dipping into gas. Why is the EV range on plug-in hybrids so low? Can we at least get 50-60 so these things are viable for that 30-40 miles per day range? And then the gas system is only for longer trips, as it should have been in the first place. I wish GM still made the Chevy Volt
@@mjc0961 The cynic in me says PHEVs were a sop to the public and all the old bad of maintenance and warranties would keep the dealers in the money. Now, PHEVs are obsolete. The monster SUVs will be a thing of the past in the not too distant future. Pundits are all avoiding saying we have no choice in going to electrification, but that's reality. Despite all politics, the various governments will mandate electrification because we have no choice. Volt was very innovative and the later versions got a bit over 50 miles in EV only. Still had the problem of dealer rapaciousness though.
I don't know if it's feasible but I feel like cars like this (or any electric car) should have a roof made of solar panels, it would be perfect for commuting if you park it outside and it charges during the day.
This is the typical observation of someone who doesn't know anything about solar panels. If you entirely covered this car in solar panels and left it in August in the desert for 8 hours, you'd probably get around 10-15 kms worth of energy at best. This obviously not considering the battery overheat problems. Solar panel roofs on cars can only make enough energy to maybe power the A/C. And if it's too hot it's not enough either
Yes! An electric pickup truck or Hummer makes no sense to me, but this does make sense. Being a fan of simplicity and practicality (and decidedly frugal) I would own one of these. For a town runabout I can't think of anything more efficient other than maybe a cargo bike.
I can't quite agree, as there are people who need to drive with more than just one passenger...but I concur that _most_ people driving in town/city are on their own and occasionally have one passenger (by the way, personally I'd go for one of these, but I'm a Smart ForTwo driver now)
I love this! 95% of my driving is city driving and rarely do over 60km/h - so this would be perfect haha. I have a PriusC currently, so not afraid of "small" cars.
i love every K car review they say wheels pushed to the corners. where else you going to put them ? anywhere else and they are in the middle of the car
That's actually a great solution for the cities, however it should be priced correctly somewhat under 9K, at least that's how much I'm willing to spend on it.
Toyota should have launched this car in India too under Quadaricycle category because of its top speed of 60 kmph & it has enough range of 150 km for daily commute purpose. It smaller length of 2 meters will help reduce traffic jams because of it's smaller length. This car fun to drive, easy to park, easy to charge & it has affordable price too.
I’ve always thought the ForTwo electric is hugely underrated. The range isn’t massive but fine for zipping around town. I had a petrol ForTwo years ago and absolutely loved it for the city.
I considered buying one until I calculated the weight capacity. With my brother (who was overweight) and I: there was only 50lbs of capacity left. His 70lbs mobility shooter would have put us over the GVWR. I then started shopping for old Nissan Leafs. Never go one, but is still my preferred electric car. The electric ForTwo alerted me to the fact that there are used electric cars priced under $10,000. Most of them are in Quebec where EVs have been subsidized for years. Freight to Alberta would cost as much as the car.
In 1948 a Citroen 2CV did 60 kph and gave 600 km for 20 litres of petrol. So - 75 years later - Toyota does efficiency.... with electricity... and you get 150 kms and 7 hours to recharge - back to the future. My 1990 Citroen 2CV6 is 100 km lighter at 585 kg. 300 km uses 20 litres of a 25.5 litre tank 115 kph on the flat, 90 kph up hill, 120 down hill Seats 4 in comfort, 4 doors, good sized boot. Air conditioning - open windows, open full flap beneath windscreen, open full roof, clip out seats for picnic... FUN & PRACTICAL
Talking about Kei EVs, you forgot the Mitsubish i-Miev (it's actually your channel's 1st video)... which actually hit the market earlier than the Leaf. Also worth noting the Kei department of Nissan is mostly done by Mitsubishi instead of Nissan (hence the Sakura also has the Mitsubish eK X EV equivalent - Nissan provided the drive train while it's built on a Mitsubishi platform). That's said on your point on Kei cars electrification (pronounced 'kei-ji-dou-sha'), Honda and Suzuki-Daihatsu-Toyota partnership already presented their plans and prototypes, they'll start with Kei-Vans first next year then move on to passenger models. Essentially now for mainstream Kei cars (not counting likes of Caterham which also qualifies) only Suzuki, Daihatsu, Mitsubishi, and Honda (which now discontinued Kei-trucks) do Kei cars themselves, all others are rebranded models of the above manufactures (ie. Subaru, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota). This one is an exception as it's more of a concept car project of Toyota made into production for Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and NOT available for public to purchase (only for lease - Toyota also does not classify it as a car, but 'micro-mobility') - I think these info should've been communicated by the reviewer, instead of all these imaginations of this being a 'car' (and yes even for Japanese safety standards these would've feared much worse than an ordinary Kei car nowadays so can't blame ENCAP). That's said this vehicle actually IS equipped with millimetre-wave radar and single-eye-camera system at the front (can be seen at the bonnet and at the top of the windscreen), UNLIKE what you said (you mentioned it has no sensors at the front), which is considerably better than these micro-mobility solutions offered by European and Chinese manufactures. And as to EV strategy of Toyota and other Japanese manufacturers, if you've done your research you would have known they actually started taking them seriously quite a few years ago (with Honda - a engine manufacturer - planning to discontinue all internal combustion engines by 2040 - yes they do not want hybrid in long-run and are very committed on EVs with 5 partnerships in liquid batteries, one in semi-solid state and a in-house solid state programme) - yes they (excl. Nissan) are later than the others, but they wanted to have more things done inhouse, unlike many others in the market that barely bought whole package of the solution from the others (which is fine for short-term but not sustainable business-wise), and obviously these results won't come in at least a few years time so everything out are essentially interim to bridge gaps. This used to be a channel I learn things when it just started (esp with i-Miev and Leaf), but nowadays seemed to have followed others to do anything that grabs views (following the tide) instead of doing diggings and educating people on the facts (leading new discussions) - which is fine but not with all the hot air and the lack of research.
This car would be so perfect for India right now - it would really turn the taps on the EV car craze. Everything in the market right now are gargantuan SUV's which are pointless in Indian cities.
Morris Minor Traveller , Ford Escort mk1 Estate. 4 seats+ luggage space, 67mph cruising speed , 0-60 25seconds & narrow enough to pass cyclists. That as an EV with 100 mile real range is all i ask. ( narrow & thin tyres brings efficency & smaller battery)
(an old saying) 1st generation starts the business, 2nd generation builds the business, 3rd generation destroys the business. The current Mr. Toyoda said he would not follow this trend, but things don't look good.
Toyota had record sales, record profits in FY2023. Toyota sells in nearly 170 countries, so they sell different cars to different regions. What suits you doesn't suits everybody. HILUX Champ sells in Thailand and Brazil, but that doesn't mean it sells in Germany. Same with this car too.
You can guarantee that if it ever does get released in the UK, it will cost more. Also, not once did you mention anything about any safety things in this. Does it have airbags more then just the drivers? Auto braking? Impact protection? Great to see that it doesn't have everything connected to a slapped on iPad, and having to go through 458 menus to turn the fan off.
Here in Amsterdam, you will see a lot of electric microcars. Most cost 12k Euro or more. But models such as the Move City Car (Chinese manufacturer) offer everything onboard, including an Android multimedia system and air-conditioning. The price, it's low comfort, low level of quality materials and low top speed (they go 45km/h) seem to be enough reasons not to buy. However, people love them, because the city of Amsterdam offers a special parking permit which allows you to park everywhere within the city of Amsterdam for a fixed annual fee of 480 Euros. This saves tons of parking costs per year because in the Amsterdam city centre, parking rates are 7,50 Euro per hour, and in some parking garages, up to 80 euro per day. And besides, these little cars are simply fun, easy and relaxing to drive around with. They put a smile on your face each time. It feels like being out in town bringing your kid to school, running errands and going to the office while always ensuring you are getting sweaty or soaked by rain.
I have been a motorcyclist since the 1980's. I am into everything Nihon. I can drive a Kei car on my full motorcycle licence here in England. I buy most of my tools from there. (Japan) As soon as I had to start using a manual wheelchair, hauling it on and off a motorcycle soaking wet became less appealing very quickly. Passed my driving test in 2018, I found in an adapted car everything is so much easier. I drive a Renault Kadjar, soon to be a Mazda CX-5 but am looking towards the electrification route and wouldn't like to be involved in an accident in any electric vehicle. One reason, I cannot alight with my adaptations switched off, which will be a grave concern and believe me when I say the emergency and breakdown services do not care if you are disabled or not. You are just a number. A meal ticket to car showrooms. Manufacturers don't really care about their customers' lives. They may send flowers to the funeral but that's an afterthought!
Should we look forward to more cars named after programming languages? Dodge Python? Kia Basic? Chrysler COBOL? TVR BF? British Leyland Rust? Edit: sorry, thought it was called the C++
I think this has real charm and would be great for inner city use. Trips around town and down to the supermarket. Paraphrasing James May, the road is long but very narrow, so a 1290mm wide car would make sense in dense traffic. On a 3 lane road you might even score a 4th lane for free if everyone drive a vehicle like this. It needs to be cheap though, as a high price would be a killer.
This is effectively the Scion IQ with electric. This is my dream car. Since the Scion IQ failed in the USA, it is unlikely I would ever get my hands on this car.
These would suit most vehicle use in cities but I can't see people buying them in western countries unfortunately. Keep the videos of compact efficient EVs coming Elliot. 👍☀️🔋
If Toyota and other manufacturers want these to sell in numbers in the UK market they need to persuade the government to change the licensing around them and make them licence free.
They would make a brilliant punishment vehicle for drunk drivers. A drunk in a BMW gets a two year ban and can only use a small car like this. Loads of street cred. Maybe drunk drivers could have to display a large 'D' sticker for another two years after getting the licence back. Better still make it pink.
They won’t push these worldwide all the time they’re selling massive SUVs at much more profit. Unless governments legislate by taxing heavier cars more.
I'm sure you will love this car, like every car you people review, otherwise they would stop sending you on expensive trips to Japan and other places. Fully Charged Show is an ad network, everything is super cool for you people.
I live in the tropics, if it didn't have a/c this car would be a non-starter. I wonder if they can produce one without the heated seat if the price could go lower?
Less than half the battery of the Sakura, half the seats, but half the price? Edit: Looked at Toyota Japan and Nissan Japan, C+Pod starts at 1,665,000円 and the Sakura starts at 2,548,700円
More like half the battery, half the seats, zero of the luxury and comfort and zero fast charging but 2/3 of the price. I also feel Nissan found the winning Small Electric Car formular.
If I was In Japan I would also take the Sakura over this. Still think Toyota are playing at compliance. Although I think a Kei Van equivalent of the Sakura would be awesome.
I love Toyota C-Pod, we need in USA! Make a Lead-Acid battery version to save cost. My BEV (StarEV Smile) has 5.3KW of Lead Acid battery and does very well. You don't need Lithium for everything.
I adore Japan and its culture having holidayed there many times and even own two JP cars now. It frustrates me how late to the EV game Japan is. You would have thought the land of Kei cars would have spewed an army of little city type EV's by now, but China has well and truly eaten their lunch and long left the building.
Agree, Japan is wonderful. In my opinion is more frustrating is not that Japan was late to the game, it is that they were there at the beginning with the first mass produced electric car in the Nissan Leaf... the thing is they never really progressed and have since been overtaken by practically everyone... hopefully with the recent new cars from Honda and Toyota - and rumours about Nissan releasing more electric cars, they will be picking up the pace a bit, because they are falling so far behind!
As EVs become more popular, the battery waste they use is becoming an issue. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), all EVs in use in 2019 will ultimately generate 500,000 tons of battery waste. All EVs in use in 2019 will ultimately generate 500,000 tons of battery waste. Of this, 180,000 tons are recyclable. The large amount of battery waste not only causes a shortage of landfill space, but also pollutes the environment with toxic substances. In addition, there are limited reserves and production of rare metals as raw materials, as well as the aforementioned conflict minerals, making it necessary to ensure a stable supply. The current battery recycling method is to cut, disassemble, and dismantle batteries. The battery recycling method currently in place involves cutting and disassembling the batteries, placing them in a blast furnace, and melting them. Batteries are placed in a blast furnace, melted, and smelted into rare metals such as lithium and cobalt. After melting, smelted into rare metals such as lithium and cobalt. The least expensive method, but The least expensive method, but requires a lot of energy and energy and emits toxic substances. Also emits toxic substances. Still, would you say electric cars are making progress?
All of it is nonsense. If batteries were more expensive to recycle than digging raw materials out of the ground, then nobody would be recycling them. At present, there are a number of recycling facilities around the world which return battery materials to the manufacture of new batteries, and at a profit. Tesla are also very interested in that aspect of battery materials life, because they see ways to lower costs/maximise profits. They even built one of their factories just down the road from a battery recycling plant, with a view to making efficient re-use of those raw materials. @@ene8894 BEV's are definitely less polluting than petrol or Diesel vehicles throughout their life cycle. They are also 'making progress', as you put it. If you've been watching this channel over the past couple of years, you will see that every aspect of your comment has been refuted, and references for those refutations have always been given. From a personal viewpoint, I'm driving an EV, at an electricity cost of around 1.5p per mile. My next electricity contract begins a few days from now, and that will enable me to drive the car for about 1p per mile. I average about 5 miles / 8 kilometres per kwh throughout a year, in England. In Summer, I'm seeing almost 6 miles per kWh. Whilst driving, I've been seeing rapidly increasing numbers of BEV's on our roads over the past two years. Millions of drivers are seeing the benefits of selling off their fossil cars. No; they'll not 'save the planet', and they will always produce some pollution, just as almost any manufactured product does. But they're a lot less damaging than cars which burn fuel directly. Especially when in city stop/go traffic.
@@frankhooper7871 yes all nations defeated by Napoleon were forced to ride on the right side of the road and the french and the rest of the defeated nations took this trait with them wherever they settled. We undefeated Brits rode on the left so we could get our swords out and used them fast ! Rule Britannia !
Right direction. But please check the Microlino Car. Two seats, range of up to 230 km, 12.5 kW power and top speed of 90 km/h. In my opinion a good way to travel through cities
37mph top speed would definitely be the killer here in the US. Neat little car though. I'm sure a lot of manufacturers are struggling to figure out how to stay competitive with EVs (which are still very expensive for most of them to produce) and also make money. Tesla has figured out how to do it, but it took them many years to become profitable.
We have this car, it's called a smart ED except Mercedes cancelled it in North America. It had power windows, doors, A/C, cruise control etc. A bit more money but ...
Was thinking that myself... not sure this qualifies as a 'car' - with those speeds, it's a quadracycle... it's even slower than the 2CV van that Jack was peddling around a day or two ago.
this is an awsome car. now, please make a yaris-size modell with 130kmph top speed and like 200km range too. with the same budget-mindset. it would be a huge win for you and for us.
What did you think about the Mitsubishi i-MiEV that did make it to the UK? Yes, it was too expensive, but it also was very early in the EV scene. At least the i-MiEV would hold 4 adults, could do 82MPH, and could even fast charge. And it had power windows -- no "window clip".
That was the conundrum with Early EV tech in an alien kei car package. If Mitsubishi had that same EV today I guarantee you it'll be more affordable, accessible and profitable Now, the conundrum of EV tech goes the other way where an automaker can't make hay with an existing technology (for decades like engines) because there's already new advancements that have spent up to a decade in the laboratory and testing before commercialisation.
I had a Peugeot-branded iMiev. Loved it. Surprises me that Mitsubishi hasn't relaunched it now that TVs are so much more common. Maybe there just isn't any money in small cars, as they say, although moving the factory to Vietnam or Romania could cut costs.
The speed limits in the UK should come down on urban and none motorway roads. Wales and Scotland will have many 20mph roads soon, with reductions from the national speed limit of 60mph. A 50mph limit would make all vehicles more efficient, cheaper, safer, and help with less congestion.
I feel that even little cars like this really must have fast charging. Life throws the unexpected at you and I wouldn't want to be waiting hours for my car to charge if I had to go somewhere in a hurry.
That would ruin the car to be honest. If it can go faster, it needs more security features to be road legal, and that would increase the weight, which would require a bigger battery, which would require the car to be bigger etc.
Its incredible how intentionally handicapped it seems to be. They should have given it a 20KW battery, maybe 50% more HP from the motor, and a charger that can do 100K charging. With those three adjustments, it would be the perfect car for NYC, Boston, San Fran, most European cities, etc....
I know this must sound pedantic, but this is important: when talking about energy (in this case, the energy that a battery can hold), the unit is kWh, not kW; kW is just a unit of power, and kWh is the total energy over a span of an hour at a rate of 1 kW. To use a water analogy, think of kWh as the size of a container of water, and kW as the rate the water is entering or leaving from the container.
@@vitspinka1 Well, at least here in the US, if you want it on the road as a legal car, at all, you have to go through the same crash testing either way between the options. To clarify, I am not wanting it to be any faster than it already is. I want it to be able to do twice the range, and handle a bit more weight before hitting the range to hard. This thing, with a bigger battery and motor, would be a great city delivery car for store owners and delivery contractors. With the current battery and charge rate, it just cant fill that role very effectively. But, you are 100% correct that it would be a bad idea to have this thing doing 70mph on a highway.
If Toyota causes Japan to go down the tubes and gives an easy win to China, which they are currently doing, the entire world suffers. It's an interesting butterfly effect. I gave up on Toyota years ago (owned several) due to their insisting that H2 made sense, when it clearly didn't, and seemed to be aimed at keeping transport energy centralized, the drive system complex, and lifespan of the vehicle short. Yeah, they can do it, but will the oldies running the show change? I'm very familiar with their culture and it seems to me the only way a true change will happen is to purge those employees who can't deal with it.
i'm in australia and it's the toyota dealerships that have turned me off buying another toyota. i have a feeling other car manufacturer dealerships are also going to be a pain to deal with. somehow i think toyota in japan is probably great to deal with.
I think I prefer the outside but also mainly the inside of the Wuling Air EV (the redesigned international version of the Wuling mini EV) which feel much more modern and better quality. That said, the Wuling Air EV is much heavier and also seems a bit larger (a bit more than 1.50m) : this would prevent it to br sold as « without driving licence » car in France…
Would you please add one important aspect: safety. I would really like to get myself a little ev but e.g. the Opel rocks-e is just not equipped with even the most basic safety devices. Even though the Toyota is only going 60km/h I would still like to know: does it have abs, airbags and side impact protection. I really don't want to get bulldozed by a city SUV.
Love it! I have an iQ but despite how much I love it I rarely drive it as I'm used to my EV but this could solve that if we got it here at a sensible price.
13K€, goddamn hell. For 6-9K, that would be a perfectly acceptable city runner. For 13K it has to be at least a full-fledged car and make 100 on the highway.
Theres an interesting video by the "Connecting the Dots" channel about why Japan keep pushing hydrogen cars. In short government concerns about being reliant on China for components and regulatory capture.
Which is such a shame considering that *Panasonic* (a Japanese company) is a major player in the EV battery business. Panasonic needs to step up their government lobbying game.
I've seen one of these. Just the one. Parked at a Toyota dealership. Given it's expensive, impractical and limited to certain roads, I can't see it taking off. Maybe as a commuter runaround? Not practical enough for delivery or inspection vehicles. It started life as a concept micro-mobility and I think that's where it's going to stay.
The USA had NEVs or Neighborhood EV which was limited to 30mph. While some retirement neighborhoods use them successfully, in general 30mph won't cut it. They raised it to 35 I think to try and save the idea after it failed to get any traction, but even that won't work. 45 is minimum on city streets. But this is the right way to go. What was top speed of the GWiz in England?
If it was £9,500 then it would sell like hot cakes, but we know that'll never happen. If they ever did bring it to the UK they'd try and sell it at £16,500, wonder why nobody bought one and then discontinue it after 2 years.
£6500 more like
I'm wondering why someone would buy this even at that vs spending a bit more and getting a year old smart eq with more power, usable speed and refinements. (we just bought a year old forfour for £12k).
Well I can imagine lots of food delivery drivers using them
Definitely a need for a proper small 4 door EV in the £15k price bracket, the current EV market does seem to be dominated by hulking great SUV's geared towards the US and company car market.
Almost no kei car has ever been sold in uk, Japanese companies presume they wont sell anywhere in Europe, or not worth it due to small profit margins. ive hire a kei car in japan, a honda n box on japan and really wanted one, but car companies want us to buy SUV's not small cars, it'd be very hefty to import one from japan btw
That window mechanism is faster than any electronic window in any car
its like the old toyota kijang in my place with a slide side window kwkwkkw
The handbrake too.
Land Rover did that 70 years ago.
and less prone to breakdown.
As a kei-car owner, I can confirm the size is really great, turning the circle is outstanding. I would totally buy one of these (Australian here). Gotta disagree about the handbrake, I'll take a manual handbrake every day, electric ones are just weird, no thanks :-)
Foot operated parking brake is a thing of the past and electric is too unreliable. Ordinary handbrake is just perfect.
@@panzerveps 100% with you bud :-). I drive a 2022 Daihatsu Hijet at the moment and it's bloody brilliant. If it had an electric drivetrain it would be near perfect (for me anyway)
It’s overprised for what it is. Even the Wulings are more car for the money.
What should Toyota trying to build instead?! Take the size of the first Aygo, put a battery in it that reaches up to 250-300km and let the car as being quick, that you can use it even on a highway. Otherwise the car is no real replacement for an ICE.
@@Benjamin_Jehne All fair points, yeah range, functionality and price are always going to be the pain points. It's a shame Toyota are dragging their heels on this one, they could smash this segment if they wanted to. I love my Hijet Jumbo, it can fit a full size motorcycle in the back, longer tray than every dual cab ute in Australia, which is insane when you consider how tiny it is. Plenty of room inside, hell even the wife loves it :-). Not for everyone, but fantastic for me and all my tradie mates laughed at first, then they sit in it, then they go for a drive, then they're not laughing, they're pissed they wasted money three times the money on a Hilux ;-)
and considering this is EV, ure screwed if batt dies and u cant use handbrake
If this car came out in the US for less than $10,000 I would absolutely buy it. It also feels like a car designed in the late 90s early 2000s and I'm all for it
This is what the world needs instead of 2.5 ton monsters.
I think it’s just a compliance car, meant only for the Japanese. Americans will continue to buy big trucks and SUVs until the planet isn’t livable .
At least Jeep finally sells an EV. But it’s huge!
Every car maker wants to be like "okay here's your stupidly expensive and stupidly large SUV or truck, enjoy" and just no, I don't want that. Get some small sedans or hatchbacks, I don't need 200+miles of range and vehicle to grid or load, I need something like the Nissan Leaf but with a liquid heating and cooling system for the battery so it can deal with winter.
And then there's Tesla who doesn't have a clue what quality control even is, no thanks
That's what you might need, but you are not the measure of the world. I don't need it. I need a car that can travel 1,000 kilometers on a single charge and which can be charged to 95% in 10 minutes or less. As such an electric car does not exist, I will happily stick with my diesel SUV.
@@mjc0961have an EV but i would like to have the option to buy one without any powersteering, electric windows,electric handbrake and other stupid accesories that makes a car more expensive,heavier and less reliable
I am a retiree and in 1978 I bought a new Honda Civic. I also had a huge American car at the time, a Lincoln Town Car to be exact, but I found myself driving the Honda most of the time. It was small, cheap, and fun to drive. The EV approach used here in Canada is more of a tail-wagging-the dog way of doing things. Our market is dominated and basically controlled by American car companies that are focused on providing expensive EVs for a niche market. If the Chinese vehicles were allowed into our market I would seriously consider a small EV for a city car and keep my larger gas powered vehicle for winter and long distance travels. Loads of little vehicles on the road would be a driving force for the installation of charging stations, which are almost non-existent here in Canada. The current economic war that the West has against China will almost certainly keep their vehicles out of the North American market which is a black eye for the climate change initiative. I have little concerns from a safety perspective due to slow driving speeds and the fact that any car is safer to drive than a motorcycle.
Yeah I would love a cheap EV commuter car in Edmonton. Chinese, Nissan Sakura, or this Toyota, I don't care. It would just be nice to have options.
It is a shame car2go is not a thing anymore. It would be great not to own a vehicle when you use it so sparingly, especially with everyone working from home these days
My daily driver is a Fiat 500e, previous generation than the current one. They can be had for cheap if you can find one. They were compliance cars for California. Definitely in the same spirit as the Gen 1 Civic, which is one of my all time favorite cars.
In Australia we are getting cheap Chinese electric. But they seem to be jacking the price just because it's electric. May as well just buy a base Tesla.
@@chuckmaddison2924 Yes electrification in OZ just seems to be an opportunity for car companies to price gouge.
The fact that you can buy a brand new car for around £10k in a developed country like Japan just shows you how much we have the piss taken out of us in the UK
It's made of plastic, wouldn't pass any safety tests, does 36 mph and is tiny. Not really a car, closer to a quadricycle.
@@MyMednas It doesn't pass any safety tests?
Japan must be a massively unsafe country then
Never mind once we leave the EU, things will be fine........ Oh hang on we have, I forgot!!!
Sounds like we didn’t really join the trading block where the general public get things cheaper because of no tariffs.
£10k is way too much for this, I can't believe those parts add up... it's a motor and 4 wheels + seat + batteries. The 9kwh battery is probably £2k of it.
i've never seen someone want an electric handbrake instead of a normal one before lol
Indeed. Why would any sane person WANT an electric handbrake?
@@malcolmrose3361 If they dont have to fix it, or have the money to pay someone to repair it when it goes wrong?
@@MrTwoZZTIt's been literally forty years since I had to repair a faulty manual handbrake. I'm sure it happens but what about the issues with electronic handbrakes? They're just the latest gimmick by car designers.
I've never even heard of an electric handbrake LOL
I had an electric hand brake in my VW it decided to seize on me leaving me stuck 5 miles from my house. Annoying can’t stand them.
I don't really like the car, but I do like the big chunky buttons and basic interior. I wish you could get something like it in normal modern cars, instead of layers of menus and strokey buttons.
I was driving in Japan 3 months ago;
Most cities have a 30kph speed limit.
In the countryside it's 50kph unless you are on a Toll Road (there are a lot!) or a motorway.
In most cities you can not buy a car unless you can show you have a off road parking space for it.
The roads are fantastic everywhere, smooth and excellent markings.
There’s only 2 true car-dependent prefectures in Japan. The island of Okinawa and Hokkaido. The literal bottom and top prefectures of the nation geolocation wise. Those 2 do not have a extensive rail networks and thus, majority of destinations are car-dependent. The rest of the prefectures, 99% of destinations relevant to most city go-ers are in walk+rail distance. Worst case, just hail a taxi.
@@Windows98R in japan if youre hail a taxi its either youre in heavy pinch or you re super rich xD
I wish they would bring the iQ back with an EV powertrain.
You know Toyota made an iQ EV right? A couple dozen for a Californian university. And they made sure no one would hear of want them.
Don't worry, the Chinese will. Just have a look at the Chery EQ1.
@@Alsmithize You mean the Chery EQ1... right? :)
I drive an IQ.. great car, certainly much better than this soulless dross. I get 61 mpg and 330 miles to a tank and under 3 minutes to fill up! - No backwards step for me. I'll keep my IQ going, especially as it's zero rated for rfl and does great mpg. I can carry 4 people too... lets not go backwards but make petrol cars more efficient. No soulless driving for me... what a horrible looking thing. How long did he say it takes to charge?
@@CATinBOOTS81 only problem is that it will combust into flames
I've been running a Twizy in the UK for years. 55mph top-speed, 40 mile range - I love it! It gets much more use than my Volvo estate!
I love the Twizzy.. If it had a little more range I would have bought one.. I won't get to work and back on 40 miles unfortunately... 😭
how do you even survive this amount of range and the top speed? the estate is never a bad one.
Its interesting that when the second gen of EVs in the late 2000s came out, they were small urban vehicles. Honda Fit, iMiev, BMW Mini E, etc. Everyone made fun of them and declared their impracticality. Given that in the USA about 90% of all miles driven is below 30-40 per day, urban vehicles made sense. Now, especially in Fully Charged, we are seeing new found respect for these tiny machines. They always made sense, but I suppose, everything in its time.
Honda Fit is the most practical car I ever have been into. Having the ability to lower the back seats to the floor level basically turns it into a small van, a feature that I actually used a few times.
Even if I had the money, I would still choose the Fit over pickup trucks or SUVs. Just more convenient and fun to drive.
@@user-pq4by2rq9y For me its the VW up! or Skoda Citigo. Both are perfect for me. I would buy an electric one if they had active battery cooling, so that longer drives without too much time spent at the charging stations would be possible.
I'm waiting (im)patiently on the VW id2 and Skoda Elroq. They should be around the size of a Polo/Fabia, which is just about perfect for me.
The only reason I wouldn't want one of these tiny machines for my daily commute in the US is because I'd be afraid of being killed by all these oversized and overweight trucks and SUVs driving around. CAFE has really screwed things up here. Otherwise yeah, I drive about 25 miles if I just go to work and back, maybe 30-35 if I go run some errands after work.
I wish we could get some good plug-in hybrids with decent range. The ones here all seem to be advertised at 20-30 miles, so you know real world is going to be lower than that, and that's not quite enough for me to get to work and back without dipping into gas. Why is the EV range on plug-in hybrids so low? Can we at least get 50-60 so these things are viable for that 30-40 miles per day range? And then the gas system is only for longer trips, as it should have been in the first place.
I wish GM still made the Chevy Volt
@@mjc0961 The cynic in me says PHEVs were a sop to the public and all the old bad of maintenance and warranties would keep the dealers in the money. Now, PHEVs are obsolete. The monster SUVs will be a thing of the past in the not too distant future. Pundits are all avoiding saying we have no choice in going to electrification, but that's reality. Despite all politics, the various governments will mandate electrification because we have no choice. Volt was very innovative and the later versions got a bit over 50 miles in EV only. Still had the problem of dealer rapaciousness though.
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV was already an electric K-car produced from 2009 until 2020. It was also sold as Citroën C-Zero and Peugeot iOn here in Europe.
I don't know if it's feasible but I feel like cars like this (or any electric car) should have a roof made of solar panels, it would be perfect for commuting if you park it outside and it charges during the day.
This is the typical observation of someone who doesn't know anything about solar panels.
If you entirely covered this car in solar panels and left it in August in the desert for 8 hours, you'd probably get around 10-15 kms worth of energy at best. This obviously not considering the battery overheat problems.
Solar panel roofs on cars can only make enough energy to maybe power the A/C. And if it's too hot it's not enough either
Yes! An electric pickup truck or Hummer makes no sense to me, but this does make sense. Being a fan of simplicity and practicality (and decidedly frugal) I would own one of these. For a town runabout I can't think of anything more efficient other than maybe a cargo bike.
Bring it to Europe, want one! Just make it go 80 km/h 😍
Look at the the Microlino. 90km/h, 230km of range and in contrary to this, it looks fantastic!
Or wait for the dacia spring, it's a proper car compared to the microlino for the same price
@@donpatisson and starting with just an 18.000£ pricetag...
@@donpatisson I love the look of the Microlino!
This should be the biggest size car allowed in big cities… we need more of these little boxes, but prices have to go down.
I can't quite agree, as there are people who need to drive with more than just one passenger...but I concur that _most_ people driving in town/city are on their own and occasionally have one passenger (by the way, personally I'd go for one of these, but I'm a Smart ForTwo driver now)
No good for families, but since my kids are now all grown up, it would be perfect for me.
Smaller the cars smoother the roads are needed.
A 45-50 MPH version of this would be amazing for a little daily runabout where I live.
It's limited. Wouldn't be in uk
@@julianshepherd2038 Definitely won't come to the southeast US where I live then, but a guy can dream~
Even in Cities you occasionally find yourself on a dual carriageway on highway/motorway. So you are right.
😊 I want one please
More appealing than the Ami with that higher top speed/range
I’m reminded of my old 1960 mini minor, wheel at each corner, and sliding windows.
I love this! 95% of my driving is city driving and rarely do over 60km/h - so this would be perfect haha. I have a PriusC currently, so not afraid of "small" cars.
Just use public transport or walk then
My bestie drives a Prius C, what a great little car. I always feel safe when she drives us.
I'd totally drive that to work and back. Unfortunately we don't have anything like this is Australia.
Get a Smart car and put electric in it, or import something I guess
Already several options in this segment from Aixam, Silence 04 etc etc in Europe so don't see the reason for testing this very old Toyota model.
This is ancient.
Toyota is squandering every plugin amd electric car it can muster.
I would buy this for 10K just for the small stuff around my house. Cheap and efficient. Perfect.
i love every K car review they say wheels pushed to the corners. where else you going to put them ? anywhere else and they are in the middle of the car
I think that this would be a perfect car for small businesses to get around the town or city and get things done!
An electric cargo bike could fit more tools…
Another reason why cars are not the future
Electric handbrakes suck. They don't work, if the battery is dead, expensive to fix, and a waste of electricity. 🤨
... and no opportunity to do a handbrake turn!
That's actually a great solution for the cities, however it should be priced correctly somewhat under 9K, at least that's how much I'm willing to spend on it.
Toyota should have launched this car in India too under Quadaricycle category because of its top speed of 60 kmph & it has enough range of 150 km for daily commute purpose. It smaller length of 2 meters will help reduce traffic jams because of it's smaller length. This car fun to drive, easy to park, easy to charge & it has affordable price too.
8:25 An electric hand brake is relays, wires, and pumps while a manual one is just a cable and clamping system. Weight saving and cost cutting
Perfect for the Channel Islands!
I’ve always thought the ForTwo electric is hugely underrated. The range isn’t massive but fine for zipping around town. I had a petrol ForTwo years ago and absolutely loved it for the city.
I considered buying one until I calculated the weight capacity. With my brother (who was overweight) and I: there was only 50lbs of capacity left. His 70lbs mobility shooter would have put us over the GVWR.
I then started shopping for old Nissan Leafs. Never go one, but is still my preferred electric car. The electric ForTwo alerted me to the fact that there are used electric cars priced under $10,000. Most of them are in Quebec where EVs have been subsidized for years. Freight to Alberta would cost as much as the car.
I love mine, would not swap it for anything.
My mother has a CDI version, almost 40km/l
In 1948 a Citroen 2CV did 60 kph and gave 600 km for 20 litres of petrol.
So - 75 years later - Toyota does efficiency.... with electricity... and you get 150 kms and 7 hours to recharge - back to the future.
My 1990 Citroen 2CV6 is 100 km lighter at 585 kg.
300 km uses 20 litres of a 25.5 litre tank
115 kph on the flat, 90 kph up hill, 120 down hill
Seats 4 in comfort, 4 doors, good sized boot.
Air conditioning - open windows, open full flap beneath windscreen, open full roof, clip out seats for picnic... FUN & PRACTICAL
Talking about Kei EVs, you forgot the Mitsubish i-Miev (it's actually your channel's 1st video)... which actually hit the market earlier than the Leaf. Also worth noting the Kei department of Nissan is mostly done by Mitsubishi instead of Nissan (hence the Sakura also has the Mitsubish eK X EV equivalent - Nissan provided the drive train while it's built on a Mitsubishi platform). That's said on your point on Kei cars electrification (pronounced 'kei-ji-dou-sha'), Honda and Suzuki-Daihatsu-Toyota partnership already presented their plans and prototypes, they'll start with Kei-Vans first next year then move on to passenger models. Essentially now for mainstream Kei cars (not counting likes of Caterham which also qualifies) only Suzuki, Daihatsu, Mitsubishi, and Honda (which now discontinued Kei-trucks) do Kei cars themselves, all others are rebranded models of the above manufactures (ie. Subaru, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota). This one is an exception as it's more of a concept car project of Toyota made into production for Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and NOT available for public to purchase (only for lease - Toyota also does not classify it as a car, but 'micro-mobility') - I think these info should've been communicated by the reviewer, instead of all these imaginations of this being a 'car' (and yes even for Japanese safety standards these would've feared much worse than an ordinary Kei car nowadays so can't blame ENCAP). That's said this vehicle actually IS equipped with millimetre-wave radar and single-eye-camera system at the front (can be seen at the bonnet and at the top of the windscreen), UNLIKE what you said (you mentioned it has no sensors at the front), which is considerably better than these micro-mobility solutions offered by European and Chinese manufactures.
And as to EV strategy of Toyota and other Japanese manufacturers, if you've done your research you would have known they actually started taking them seriously quite a few years ago (with Honda - a engine manufacturer - planning to discontinue all internal combustion engines by 2040 - yes they do not want hybrid in long-run and are very committed on EVs with 5 partnerships in liquid batteries, one in semi-solid state and a in-house solid state programme) - yes they (excl. Nissan) are later than the others, but they wanted to have more things done inhouse, unlike many others in the market that barely bought whole package of the solution from the others (which is fine for short-term but not sustainable business-wise), and obviously these results won't come in at least a few years time so everything out are essentially interim to bridge gaps. This used to be a channel I learn things when it just started (esp with i-Miev and Leaf), but nowadays seemed to have followed others to do anything that grabs views (following the tide) instead of doing diggings and educating people on the facts (leading new discussions) - which is fine but not with all the hot air and the lack of research.
At 3:10, it very much felt like Elliot was in a hip hop video, especially with the way he started "Now if you look" and the hand gestures
This car would be so perfect for India right now - it would really turn the taps on the EV car craze. Everything in the market right now are gargantuan SUV's which are pointless in Indian cities.
What SUVs do you get there? Crazy that people would want one of them on tight roads and heavy traffic!
A useful feature is being able to drive straight into the supermarket, down the aisles and pluck things off the shelf and place directly in the boot.
Morris Minor Traveller , Ford Escort mk1 Estate. 4 seats+ luggage space, 67mph cruising speed , 0-60 25seconds & narrow enough to pass cyclists. That as an EV with 100 mile real range is all i ask. ( narrow & thin tyres brings efficency & smaller battery)
(an old saying) 1st generation starts the business, 2nd generation builds the business, 3rd generation destroys the business.
The current Mr. Toyoda said he would not follow this trend, but things don't look good.
Toyota had record sales, record profits in FY2023. Toyota sells in nearly 170 countries, so they sell different cars to different regions. What suits you doesn't suits everybody. HILUX Champ sells in Thailand and Brazil, but that doesn't mean it sells in Germany. Same with this car too.
Reminds me of the Toyota iq which was a lovely car, there were rumours that that would become electric! so I don't hold much hope but we can all hope.
It did become electric, but it was so obscure not many new about it.
You can guarantee that if it ever does get released in the UK, it will cost more.
Also, not once did you mention anything about any safety things in this. Does it have airbags more then just the drivers? Auto braking? Impact protection?
Great to see that it doesn't have everything connected to a slapped on iPad, and having to go through 458 menus to turn the fan off.
I owned a Toyota iQ3 for 7 years. Great car and surprised they stopped importing it or turned it into an EV.
Here in Amsterdam, you will see a lot of electric microcars. Most cost 12k Euro or more. But models such as the Move City Car (Chinese manufacturer) offer everything onboard, including an Android multimedia system and air-conditioning. The price, it's low comfort, low level of quality materials and low top speed (they go 45km/h) seem to be enough reasons not to buy. However, people love them, because the city of Amsterdam offers a special parking permit which allows you to park everywhere within the city of Amsterdam for a fixed annual fee of 480 Euros. This saves tons of parking costs per year because in the Amsterdam city centre, parking rates are 7,50 Euro per hour, and in some parking garages, up to 80 euro per day. And besides, these little cars are simply fun, easy and relaxing to drive around with. They put a smile on your face each time. It feels like being out in town bringing your kid to school, running errands and going to the office while always ensuring you are getting sweaty or soaked by rain.
This needs to come to the Philippines, perfect for cities like Cebu and Metro Manila
I have been a motorcyclist since the 1980's.
I am into everything Nihon.
I can drive a Kei car on my full motorcycle licence here in England.
I buy most of my tools from there. (Japan)
As soon as I had to start using a manual wheelchair, hauling it on and off a motorcycle soaking wet became less appealing very quickly.
Passed my driving test in 2018, I found in an adapted car everything is so much easier.
I drive a Renault Kadjar, soon to be a Mazda CX-5 but am looking towards the electrification route and wouldn't like to be involved in an accident in any electric vehicle.
One reason, I cannot alight with my adaptations switched off, which will be a grave concern and believe me when I say the emergency and breakdown services do not care if you are disabled or not.
You are just a number.
A meal ticket to car showrooms.
Manufacturers don't really care about their customers' lives.
They may send flowers to the funeral but that's an afterthought!
Should we look forward to more cars named after programming languages?
Dodge Python?
Kia Basic?
Chrysler COBOL?
TVR BF?
British Leyland Rust?
Edit: sorry, thought it was called the C++
There's the Geely Geome "C" but since it's just a letter it's cheating. And it's discontinued.
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 there's the Mercedes C (with) class(es) too.
@@benholroyd5221... and a significant factor of inheritance!
No Ford Fortran? Opportunity missed there!
A few years ago we were flying supersonic commercial flights and now we have reduced auto travel to 37mph. what an advancement!
I think this has real charm and would be great for inner city use. Trips around town and down to the supermarket. Paraphrasing James May, the road is long but very narrow, so a 1290mm wide car would make sense in dense traffic. On a 3 lane road you might even score a 4th lane for free if everyone drive a vehicle like this. It needs to be cheap though, as a high price would be a killer.
This is effectively the Scion IQ with electric. This is my dream car. Since the Scion IQ failed in the USA, it is unlikely I would ever get my hands on this car.
These would suit most vehicle use in cities but I can't see people buying them in western countries unfortunately. Keep the videos of compact efficient EVs coming Elliot. 👍☀️🔋
Thank you for not hugging the 🚗 with the charge port open 😉
If Toyota and other manufacturers want these to sell in numbers in the UK market they need to persuade the government to change the licensing around them and make them licence free.
They would make a brilliant punishment vehicle for drunk drivers. A drunk in a BMW gets a two year ban and can only use a small car like this. Loads of street cred. Maybe drunk drivers could have to display a large 'D' sticker for another two years after getting the licence back. Better still make it pink.
@@mbak7801 Agree on that and have it equipped with the the Anti drunk driver lock out.
I remember when this being shown as a concept at Toyota’s shopping mall video I watched a few years back.
They won’t push these worldwide all the time they’re selling massive SUVs at much more profit. Unless governments legislate by taxing heavier cars more.
You'd also get squished by said massive SUV's in a crash, so there's that
I'm sure you will love this car, like every car you people review, otherwise they would stop sending you on expensive trips to Japan and other places. Fully Charged Show is an ad network, everything is super cool for you people.
I live in the tropics, if it didn't have a/c this car would be a non-starter. I wonder if they can produce one without the heated seat if the price could go lower?
I have seen it run on the street once only. No way for that price. Can't compete with Sakura now.
Less than half the battery of the Sakura, half the seats, but half the price?
Edit: Looked at Toyota Japan and Nissan Japan, C+Pod starts at 1,665,000円 and the Sakura starts at 2,548,700円
More like half the battery, half the seats, zero of the luxury and comfort and zero fast charging but 2/3 of the price. I also feel Nissan found the winning Small Electric Car formular.
If I was In Japan I would also take the Sakura over this. Still think Toyota are playing at compliance.
Although I think a Kei Van equivalent of the Sakura would be awesome.
@@KGC210 Yes, I also thought the Sakura as 2 seater with a lots of cargo space behind, would be the perfect little car for myself.
I love Toyota C-Pod, we need in USA! Make a Lead-Acid battery version to save cost. My BEV (StarEV Smile) has 5.3KW of Lead Acid battery and does very well. You don't need Lithium for everything.
I adore Japan and its culture having holidayed there many times and even own two JP cars now. It frustrates me how late to the EV game Japan is. You would have thought the land of Kei cars would have spewed an army of little city type EV's by now, but China has well and truly eaten their lunch and long left the building.
Agree, Japan is wonderful.
In my opinion is more frustrating is not that Japan was late to the game, it is that they were there at the beginning with the first mass produced electric car in the Nissan Leaf... the thing is they never really progressed and have since been overtaken by practically everyone... hopefully with the recent new cars from Honda and Toyota - and rumours about Nissan releasing more electric cars, they will be picking up the pace a bit, because they are falling so far behind!
As EVs become more popular, the battery waste they use is becoming an issue. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), all EVs in use in 2019 will ultimately generate 500,000 tons of battery waste.
All EVs in use in 2019 will ultimately generate 500,000 tons of battery waste. Of this, 180,000 tons are recyclable. The large amount of battery waste not only causes a shortage of landfill space, but also pollutes the environment with toxic substances. In addition, there are limited reserves and production of rare metals as raw materials, as well as the aforementioned conflict minerals, making it necessary to ensure a stable supply.
The current battery recycling method is to cut, disassemble, and dismantle batteries.
The battery recycling method currently in place involves cutting and disassembling the batteries, placing them in a blast furnace, and melting them.
Batteries are placed in a blast furnace, melted, and smelted into rare metals such as lithium and cobalt.
After melting, smelted into rare metals such as lithium and cobalt. The least expensive method, but
The least expensive method, but requires a lot of energy and
energy and emits toxic substances.
Also emits toxic substances.
Still, would you say electric cars are making progress?
@@ene8894 Where do you get this nonsense from?
@@johnn17golf Which sentence did you think was nonsense? Please describe where you can refute it.
All of it is nonsense. If batteries were more expensive to recycle than digging raw materials out of the ground, then nobody would be recycling them. At present, there are a number of recycling facilities around the world which return battery materials to the manufacture of new batteries, and at a profit. Tesla are also very interested in that aspect of battery materials life, because they see ways to lower costs/maximise profits. They even built one of their factories just down the road from a battery recycling plant, with a view to making efficient re-use of those raw materials. @@ene8894
BEV's are definitely less polluting than petrol or Diesel vehicles throughout their life cycle. They are also 'making progress', as you put it. If you've been watching this channel over the past couple of years, you will see that every aspect of your comment has been refuted, and references for those refutations have always been given.
From a personal viewpoint, I'm driving an EV, at an electricity cost of around 1.5p per mile. My next electricity contract begins a few days from now, and that will enable me to drive the car for about 1p per mile. I average about 5 miles / 8 kilometres per kwh throughout a year, in England. In Summer, I'm seeing almost 6 miles per kWh. Whilst driving, I've been seeing rapidly increasing numbers of BEV's on our roads over the past two years. Millions of drivers are seeing the benefits of selling off their fossil cars.
No; they'll not 'save the planet', and they will always produce some pollution, just as almost any manufactured product does. But they're a lot less damaging than cars which burn fuel directly. Especially when in city stop/go traffic.
I am sold on the manual window operation and lack of stupid gadgets alone. The EV angle is a bonus.
Looks very smart (sic) bring it over to the UK under £10k and what it fly out the doors. I wonder if we can grey import them ?
At least we both drive on the correct side of the road
@@frankhooper7871 yes all nations defeated by Napoleon were forced to ride on the right side of the road and the french and the rest of the defeated nations took this trait with them wherever they settled. We undefeated Brits rode on the left so we could get our swords out and used them fast ! Rule Britannia !
This would be PERFECT for 99% of my driving needs!
It's not much smaller than the old Mk 1 Smart Four-Two
I'm intrigued & will be finding out more.
Right direction. But please check the Microlino Car.
Two seats, range of up to 230 km, 12.5 kW power and top speed of 90 km/h.
In my opinion a good way to travel through cities
I'd dearly love a minivan like this that can fit my dogs/synths and do 80kph
Not just good and essential simplistic features but also looks wise it's also nice and looks like a car.
37mph top speed would definitely be the killer here in the US. Neat little car though. I'm sure a lot of manufacturers are struggling to figure out how to stay competitive with EVs (which are still very expensive for most of them to produce) and also make money. Tesla has figured out how to do it, but it took them many years to become profitable.
This is the way. Smaller, less powerful, but lighter.
Still better than a Citroen Ami
We have this car, it's called a smart ED except Mercedes cancelled it in North America. It had power windows, doors, A/C, cruise control etc. A bit more money but ...
The G-Wiz lives 😳 - but this car would have a positive environmental impact given the alternative (and somewhat more attractive) option of walking…
Was thinking that myself... not sure this qualifies as a 'car' - with those speeds, it's a quadracycle... it's even slower than the 2CV van that Jack was peddling around a day or two ago.
this is an awsome car. now, please make a yaris-size modell with 130kmph top speed and like 200km range too.
with the same budget-mindset. it would be a huge win for you and for us.
What did you think about the Mitsubishi i-MiEV that did make it to the UK? Yes, it was too expensive, but it also was very early in the EV scene. At least the i-MiEV would hold 4 adults, could do 82MPH, and could even fast charge. And it had power windows -- no "window clip".
That was the conundrum with Early EV tech in an alien kei car package. If Mitsubishi had that same EV today I guarantee you it'll be more affordable, accessible and profitable
Now, the conundrum of EV tech goes the other way where an automaker can't make hay with an existing technology (for decades like engines) because there's already new advancements that have spent up to a decade in the laboratory and testing before commercialisation.
I had a Peugeot-branded iMiev. Loved it. Surprises me that Mitsubishi hasn't relaunched it now that TVs are so much more common. Maybe there just isn't any money in small cars, as they say, although moving the factory to Vietnam or Romania could cut costs.
The speed limits in the UK should come down on urban and none motorway roads.
Wales and Scotland will have many 20mph roads soon, with reductions from the national speed limit of 60mph. A 50mph limit would make all vehicles more efficient, cheaper, safer, and help with less congestion.
I feel that even little cars like this really must have fast charging. Life throws the unexpected at you and I wouldn't want to be waiting hours for my car to charge if I had to go somewhere in a hurry.
It would take even longer to charge in Japan because of the 100v
If this is the direction we are going i want to turn around!!!!
If they could make a version that could safely do 100km/h, it would make the C+Pod a useful commuter car for me.
That would ruin the car to be honest. If it can go faster, it needs more security features to be road legal, and that would increase the weight, which would require a bigger battery, which would require the car to be bigger etc.
Or if you need a car that needs to go 100 kph why not invest in a rail line
80% this is an American
Its incredible how intentionally handicapped it seems to be. They should have given it a 20KW battery, maybe 50% more HP from the motor, and a charger that can do 100K charging. With those three adjustments, it would be the perfect car for NYC, Boston, San Fran, most European cities, etc....
I know this must sound pedantic, but this is important: when talking about energy (in this case, the energy that a battery can hold), the unit is kWh, not kW; kW is just a unit of power, and kWh is the total energy over a span of an hour at a rate of 1 kW.
To use a water analogy, think of kWh as the size of a container of water, and kW as the rate the water is entering or leaving from the container.
But would it handle that power? Stability, traction... and crash safety?
@@tokiomitohsaka7770 Well spotted, I wasnt being exact enough.
@@vitspinka1 Well, at least here in the US, if you want it on the road as a legal car, at all, you have to go through the same crash testing either way between the options.
To clarify, I am not wanting it to be any faster than it already is. I want it to be able to do twice the range, and handle a bit more weight before hitting the range to hard.
This thing, with a bigger battery and motor, would be a great city delivery car for store owners and delivery contractors.
With the current battery and charge rate, it just cant fill that role very effectively.
But, you are 100% correct that it would be a bad idea to have this thing doing 70mph on a highway.
If Toyota causes Japan to go down the tubes and gives an easy win to China, which they are currently doing, the entire world suffers. It's an interesting butterfly effect. I gave up on Toyota years ago (owned several) due to their insisting that H2 made sense, when it clearly didn't, and seemed to be aimed at keeping transport energy centralized, the drive system complex, and lifespan of the vehicle short.
Yeah, they can do it, but will the oldies running the show change? I'm very familiar with their culture and it seems to me the only way a true change will happen is to purge those employees who can't deal with it.
i'm in australia and it's the toyota dealerships that have turned me off buying another toyota. i have a feeling other car manufacturer dealerships are also going to be a pain to deal with. somehow i think toyota in japan is probably great to deal with.
That’s small even for a Kei car. I hope this is the forerunner of some truly practical Kei EVs. This looks like it will do for local deliveries.
I think I prefer the outside but also mainly the inside of the Wuling Air EV (the redesigned international version of the Wuling mini EV) which feel much more modern and better quality.
That said, the Wuling Air EV is much heavier and also seems a bit larger (a bit more than 1.50m) : this would prevent it to br sold as « without driving licence » car in France…
Would you please add one important aspect: safety. I would really like to get myself a little ev but e.g. the Opel rocks-e is just not equipped with even the most basic safety devices. Even though the Toyota is only going 60km/h I would still like to know: does it have abs, airbags and side impact protection. I really don't want to get bulldozed by a city SUV.
Get rid of the SUVs first. That will solve your problem!
Quite liked the interior but the outside made me think of total recall.
What happens if you get hit by the truck at 0:43?
Does it comply to safety requirements and which ones?
Love it! I have an iQ but despite how much I love it I rarely drive it as I'm used to my EV but this could solve that if we got it here at a sensible price.
You know Toyota made an iQ EV right? A couple dozen for a Californian university. And they made sure no one would hear of want them.
@toyotaprius79 oh I know gutted I'll never have one
Perfect for a single person or childless people. Here in the Philippines i see entire families on small motorbikes
Great for university students, pizza delivery, any young adults to go A to B❤
It should be able to replace most everyday mileage done by crossovers, pickups and SUVs
I need something like this, I can’t justify a “regular” automobile living in Philadelphia.
I’m not so sure this is EXACTLY what “we” need.
what do you mean by ‚we‘? where are you from?
@@philippkrebs2484😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@philippkrebs2484 North America.
Maybe this is EXACTLY what the Japanese need. Very assumptive on the title’s part to suggest such an absolute affirmation on the rest of the world.
If Toyota want to survive, then they better sell a lot of these, because they are very late to the game.
13K€, goddamn hell. For 6-9K, that would be a perfectly acceptable city runner. For 13K it has to be at least a full-fledged car and make 100 on the highway.
Theres an interesting video by the "Connecting the Dots" channel about why Japan keep pushing hydrogen cars. In short government concerns about being reliant on China for components and regulatory capture.
Which is such a shame considering that *Panasonic* (a Japanese company) is a major player in the EV battery business. Panasonic needs to step up their government lobbying game.
Go Toyota! Please disrupt yourselves to grow, and bring us BEVs designed from the ground up. We are cheering for you!
we don't need more cars, we need public transportation
Yes then we can be held to ransom by Union controlled labour, oh wait a minute that’s what’s happening now ! And thats why we need our own transport
Have a look at Tata tiago Ev ! With decent size cost around $10k + with good range 🗿
this guy likes every car he reviews 💀
I've seen one of these. Just the one. Parked at a Toyota dealership. Given it's expensive, impractical and limited to certain roads, I can't see it taking off. Maybe as a commuter runaround? Not practical enough for delivery or inspection vehicles. It started life as a concept micro-mobility and I think that's where it's going to stay.
I can only imagine the terror one would have driving this along I-45 in Houston, TX.
Most Americans wouldn't fit!
The USA had NEVs or Neighborhood EV which was limited to 30mph. While some retirement neighborhoods use them successfully, in general 30mph won't cut it. They raised it to 35 I think to try and save the idea after it failed to get any traction, but even that won't work. 45 is minimum on city streets. But this is the right way to go. What was top speed of the GWiz in England?