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There are European electric cars similar to Kei cars. Smart EQ, Renault Twingo, the Citroën Ami is smaller still.
by rjsw 5y ago
There are European electric cars similar to Kei cars.
Smart EQ, Renault Twingo, the Citroën Ami is smaller still.
- gregoriol 5y agoWhile the Smart and Renault examples are regular cars but small (Mini and BMW i3 are about the same category), the Citroën Ami is a bit different: it can be driven without a licence, could work for teenagers for example, and some other specialised brands exist for those tiny/simple/quiet cars like Aixam (https://www.aixam.com/en/e-aixam-range https://www.aixam.com/en/e-aixam-range). Renault also had the Twizy in that category.
- numpad0 5y agoSmart or Twingo don’t qualify as Kei cars FWIW. Ami might?
- sp332 5y agoThe Smart EQ is small enough to be a Kei car and could downrate the engine from 80HP to 63. Is it missing something else from the category?
- numpad0 5y agoTechnically it’s not far too wide but it’s…it feels too thick and nice to call it a Kei to me, Kei is more like Ford Transit van scaled down to Smart footprint while retaining four seatbelts. Maybe this is a pedantic argument like whether a Dyson cleaners qualify as “a typical handy vacuum” but those aren’t bland Walmart specials.
- fomine3 5y agoSmart fortwo is sold as kei car, named Smart K.