I’ve got a Smart EV. Would not trade it, but what everyone needs to realize they are a city car…. Using it around town between 25 and 50 MPH and get 80 to 100 miles per charge. At speeds of 70 or over range will decrease drastically.
I get fed up with comments that the Smart is not good for long journeys on motorways etc totally missing the point as to what this car is for.I would not trade my Smart ev for anything else for local journeys.
Most of us though really only have a use for an around town. Even In the distant past I would either rent a car, take a bus or a train for any trip over a hundred miles.
Trikes are the way to go for inner city usage. They save one wheel material on each vehicle, are light weight and lesser stretches on road pavement public resource maintenance,
(11) Wuling Mini EV $4,500-$6000, (2) Volkjswagen Nils $ ???, (3) Citroen Ami $8,500, (3) Renault Twizy $9,000-$17,000????), (4) Uniti One $21,000, (5) Eli Zero $9,900-$11,900 (6) Honda Neu-V $???, Smart EQ $24, 960!!!!
I'm in the market for a small EV BUT... I live up a rugged mountain track in Spain. I would be using this vehicle to go to the shops (5KM away) but also - I need to know it has the Torque to get back up the hill it came down from. My neighbor rides a 125cc Moped, and with a bag of shopping it works - but it can't handle two people on our hill. So - can anyone recommend a high torque/grip cheap EV to get up a hill and serve as a go kart to shops 5km away?
That VW Nils looks great but I think it was only a prototype for a show a couple years ago and never meant to become an actual production model. We've seen lots of awesome looking cars that never get made. Instead we just get the same-old generic looking stuff...
WOW, ALL of these would work perfectly with an attachable drone to make a perfect flying car. A "Snap on Snap off" lite weight EXISTING micro electric car with a separate top fitting powerful snap on/off drone could work TOTADY! When you get close to where you fly into you can snap off the micro car and drive to where you need to go. You own the micro car but the expensive drone is rented and arrives from the drone port ready to go. This would keep the cost low and always have a fully charged snap on drone ready to go. Lots of Drone Ports (Think the new gas station) everywhere storing drones ready to go. On a long trip you just stop at a drone port and switch out the drone for one fully charged. 99% of people could afford this! Keep it simple...... use what we have.... Once perfected this will totally disrupter old fashion expensive cars, clogging up highways and save environment at same time. Let’s snap one of these micro cars to a powerful drone (like Volvocopter 18 blade super structure} and make it work for everyone. AI CONTROLS WITH GPS SHOULD MAKE THIS AN AUTONOMOUS PILOT FROM POINT A TO B...... JUST TELL ALEXIS WHERE YOU WANT TO GO........ Then the whole trillion-dollar highway infrastructure budget can now be used to bulldoze down slums and build quality affordable homes with a drone port on the roof….! WOW….! WE NEED TO THINK SMALL INORDER TO GO BIG! I think this is totally feasible right now for under $20,000 plus monthly drone rental fees? A lot better than $250,000 plus which no one can afford like the X2, Pop Up and the Airbus fly cars now being built. Please make a basic model for everyone. Partner with a drone mfg. and get er done.....! All of these microelectrics could all work today with a snap on drone….?!?!?!?!
Twizy, £15k but you still have to lease the battery, are you nuts! I think there is a partial argument if you live in a city but if you travel 30 miles to work, none of these are really useful. Also what if you have kids… how do you do a weekly shopping visit. And this is all before the the environmental impact of battery cars. ICE not perfect but not this bad. The Smart takes 8hrs if you charge from a home socket, every night. 70 miles of range so if you work 30 miles away, bit of a gamble in getting home especially if the temperature drops below 5 degrees C. Good luck guys, enjoy your fantasy, just don’t get caught smoking it, it’s still illegal 😂
The Honda neu V doors are a very bad design. They open too close too the ground and anything on the ground could damage them; parking beside a curb and opening the door would totally wreck the door.
I really wished people would stop the bullcrap lie "this is the EV that's giving Tesla a run for it's money".. nothing can compete with the tesla and even the tesla is far from being a perfect transport, as, as with all EVs, you have VERY limited range and long recharge times. I dont care how much or how little you pay for an EV, it cant compete with a combustion engine vehicle for long trips.
Only the Chinese Micro EV is what you could call cheap enough to make it affordable for the masses. Most are expensive for their size and capabilities.
every manufacturer aim is to exploit what you called green, (it ain't green when they built it especially mass production), they just make it aesthetically pleasing and advertise it as green... and yes for more profit.
VW Nils "Long before Tesla?" Tesla has been selling electric cars since 2008. VW showed this in 2011 and it wasn't even a production car. There is something wrong with your math
There’s no such thing as “cheap EVs” . In comparison with each other that’s about it, against combustion engine vehicles, they are 4-5 times the price of and nothing but an inconvenience to find chargers. Not to mention varying prices make them a pain to own as you still need to babysit them like phones. For eg i didn’t use my EV for a couple of weeks and come out to find the battery has discharged enough that if it was petrol, it would be classified as a *leak!* I can leave my petrol car for 6 months, disconnect the battery and connect it back up and it will start and still have a FULL fuel tank… Not to mention once the battery has dropped its performance on an EV the car is scrap, since it’s 2/3s the overall price of the car
UTTERLY USELESS VIDEO. Many of these "vehicles" are NOT AVAILABLE in the USA (quotes, because a lot of them AREN'T EVEN CARS) and I can barely understand what you are saying.
Add the AC and airbags for last versions. And charging at a regular power socket. They do 100km with 80 cents ! The chinese model at nr 8 is BY FAR the best car from all !
I think these cars suffer badly from Unobtainium.. The Smart EQ is way over-priced and just not that good. The Twizy also but is more appealing. Despite seeing them on the streets for years in Europe, Renault have now quit making them. They created a well received classic and then dropped it - cheers Renault!! The Citroen Ami I don't think will be available in RHD anytime soon. The Unity, which is the best of all worlds - well we have not heard from it for years. Eventually, we might be spoilt for choice for small EVs but probably not this decade.
So you can't buy some of these, some are completely impractical, some are ridiculousl;y expensive for what they are and only the Wu Ling is cheap, affordable and useful. So only one small EV that you can buy cheaply that is actually any good and you can't buy that car in my country or in fact in any country except China.
I think we have many small towns. Where people could get to and from home and grocery stores. I live on a PENINSULA. Also I'm 75 miles from a freeway for goodness sakes We don't all live around giant trucks. We just want to dip from one small location to another.
It's a concept car... It's not available to buy yet. I do the research on all of these car videos that get recommended to me and most of these are concept or not even on the market in the US yet
Having driven a mini i know how invisible tiny cars are to careless drivers in big cars and lorry drivers. I was hit, sometimes badly, by people who just "didn't see me". I got fed up with always having to deal with other people's insurers. It's a miracle i wasn't badly hurt.
Like with a motorcycle but with a lot more "padding" to protect you. Was your car a bright color? My sister got a used car in school bus yellow. She wasn't a fan of the look but loved the visibility.
None of these would ever be as safe as a full size car. Multi lane highways like the interstates in the US or the Autobahn in Germany are not the places to be driving these cars. They are nice for city commutes in something like London..... but LA, Boston, Chicago, Houston.....would be too much of a risk with loops around the cities of 8 or more lanes of traffic moving at high speeds. That is why the US doesn't bother even trying to market these types of EVs.
How many miles does a battery pack last ? How much does a new battery pack cost ? Is this cost higher than the residual value of the vehicle ? I think this is the case - hence EV's are not economically viable, at present. Or am I wrong ?
With the sun and the wind I will travel forever. . . since I consume electricity to travel, why not recover some of it using a mini or micro wind generator, with vertical axis, placed externally somewhere in the car and a system of solar panels? These systems will deliver energy. . forever. (I mean: a moving object, like a car, will create a vortex in the air, the wind. When it hits the wind turbine, it will generate electricity that will recharge the batteries).
You're missing the point that no urban city in the world has enough chargers for the number of cars currently. And who wants to come up against a Range Rover in that VW?
"Chargers" You mean... wall outlets? You don't have enough wall outlets? I'm a humble european who lives in a house with three exterior outlets, plus two in the garage, and another two in the garden shed. You'll be fine.
@@gustaveliasson5395 well I'm a Brit who lives in a flat in France. In a town with barely enough charging points for 20000 people. So I mean chargers. The type that cars plug into in order to replenish the battery. What else could I mean?
@@aacmove That's cool; my dad used to live in a flat on a disused military base (armour regiment, I think), but there were dedicated parking spaces with electrical outlets for running car heaters in the frigid winter mornings. My mom's flat also came with dedicated parking... and her mother lives in a flat with an underground garage. Well I'll be damned, it seems the possibility of a flat *without* a dedicated parking space and outdoor electrical outlets was completely overlooked. Privilege checked, I suppose. E-bikes, then? An electrified velomobile so as to not be completely exposed to the elements? Something with a detachable battery, at any rate.
Big questions for the American buyer... 1 do you need a license to drive it? 2 is it street legal since these cars can't keep up with reg speeds of traffic? 3 are they insurable? 4 are they safe if you are involved in an accident with more typical vehicles? 5 would law enforcement mess with you all the time? 6 how hard is it to get hands on parts or have it worked on? and related 7 what does the routine maintenance look like? Really the videos I'm seeing they look like ramped up barbie cars that toddlers get for Christmas. And honestly I do wonder if we should focus instead on more infrastructure for these and also golf carts etc.
Yes it's insured. We have a twizy goes max 80 km per hour. I don't know speed in American standards. Its just fine within smaller distances. Like a covered up scooter. But a scooter u can pass the traffic jams not with this. Twizy bit easier to park as its smaller than a car.
All your questions are yes for 8. Chinese car and the cheapest one too. I did test in İstanbul streets last week and I am sold. 108km per hour speed capability legal in interstate roads insurance ok and home use electric is required. Very roomy very comfortable suspensions very practical in city only downside is small wheel diameter (12 inch ) compare to others but honestly I can say feeling like normal size car reactions on poles.
For city driving in Europe, no need for speed...very soon all capitals and big towns will reduce their speed inside the cities to 30km/h....even the Ami could get a speeding ticket.
Yes, but are these vehicles up to the requisite safety standards of countries other than China. If I buy one direct can I register it in my country? USA would be questionable, what about Europe?
Puh, impractical, bloody ugly and way overpriced. Also, South Australia and Victoria introduced a tax for every kilometre you drive an EV. I'll stick with combustion vehicles, thanks.
Hi, Great video, I have been looking for a ev 2 seater, e-car that is advertised on RUclips, after I finally got information on purchasing one. But the price keeps changing from $6,000 dollars to a low of $69 dollars? I don't understand how they can be sold for this price.
I like the last four ev but where I live people drive like savages. It would not be safe to drive these tiny vehicles. Thanks you for taking the time to share.
The BATTERY is NOT SOLD woth the CAR??? That is RIDICULOUS. Why? Is it a crap battery? So if it is leased and it stops working you can't sue their stupid azz. What kind of USELESS crap is that?
Sadly small EV-s are not as affordable than they should be. They are too small, too weak, often for 1-2 people and with nearly zero cargo space, while they are still expensive. Their weak spot is not the lot of compromise, but their price/value ratio. People can buy much larger, much stronger used cars with AC and every feature for less price. Too much compromise and still too expensive. Toys for wealthy people.
It's so irritating to hear people talking about range being unfortunately low. I don't think range is a big deal if the batteries are removable and can be charged inside your home with minimal effort. For me, speed is the deciding factor. I can legally travel 55 on a short stretch of my daily commute. I don't need 55 mph but I do need 45. Without that, I'm not a potential buyer. I would think that the same holds true for most people who work in the same city in which they live. I can even go to the restaurant on the outskirts of town in a 45 mph car. I'd get an impeding citation if I tried that in a LSV. Give me 30 miles at 45 mph, an enclosed cabin, decent suspension and a price of $10K or less and I'll buy one within a year of it hitting the market.
i wish cars like the Handa-Neu-V, the Uniti One and the VW NILS coming on the road like they show us there prototypes. but everytime the come to life there are boring as fuck. ok the VW iD buzz came about 80% like the prototype thats great but 100% are cool. but yea cut down cost and easy manufaktury there have to go boring but what if there build them futuristic as shown would you by one? i would because i get hyped and after couple years they came out and i look at them and think whats that shit it looks like the older one nothing change realy. so whats the point building a design prototype and then doing the same boring like before and call it version 2.0? i dont understand it
God most of these are absolute junk for the price. Nearly all have less then a 100 mile range and a cap of 30MPH. considering topping off a battery at 100% wears the battery faster I just can't see these as anything near feasible except in niche uses, like city driving If you are doing that it would be easier and better for the environment to just use public transport.
Some of theses would be perfect as a Snap on Snap off Drone attachments. OK, so 99 % of cars have 1 person in them.... My concept of the perfect flying car is a "snap on snap off" 1 person 3 wheel lite weight electric golf cart with separate top fitting snap on drone. When you get close to where you fly into you can un snap the cart and drive to where you want to go. You own the cart but the drone is rented. Keep the cost low and let the drone attachment recharge. You will not get the same drone back each time as they are charging up. Lots of city Drone Ports and one at your house. 99% of people could afford this....! Keep it simple...... use what we have.... Cart battery used as back up to drone! Total disrupter to old fashion expensive cars, clogged up highways and oil energy industries..... save environment at same time...???
why should we take this video serious? you say long before tesla in 2011..... first tesla came out in 2008 do you guys have any idea what your talking about?
By the way folks, electric cars are nothing new, because I saw a video of the early electric cars, and that was back in the 1920s. They had them plugged into the sockets at the factory so that when a person bought one, they could drive it home immediately and keep them charged when needed. They were small like these, but they were still good to drive. I liked all of these cars, and anyone of them would get me to rhe store or anyplace else that I need to go to.
some of these cars are way overpriced. I would't pay more than 3000 euro on a full option EV car considering the short autonomy and not being suitable for off road driving
So dangerous with the 18-wheelers out here on our nasty roads of the Earth. They're just too small I mean in reality you're only drive these to the supermarket or local super centers but out on the main roads where there's bigger cars than these little cars is crazy they're just too small and they're getting smaller and smaller it's not fair have a family who's their life because they're doing this car was cute but you really didn't protect them in the long run
Yeah. Innovative and exciting. I think the world has passed most of us by. Cars are no longer affordable. These cars are cheaper than conventional midsize cars. I guess we're all soon on foot.
this video is nonsense because you can't buy a prototype (vw) and you can't buy a never-released car from an insolvent startup (uniti) and you can't buy a concept car (honda)
lols some of the models here sell from 21k onwards ain't actually cheap which most people won't consider considering the fact that it's a small car as it can't carry much either in humans or stuffs
Yeah, but they're plastic! And have you thought about what would happen to one of those teeny plastic cars if you tangle with a regular car or 18 wheeler? You & your teeny car are permanently mashed together for all time.
@@beckyyoung2173 Plastic panels on a metal frame, typically. They're also aimed at city use, where both they -and whatever other vehicle they might be involved in a crash with- will statistically speaking be moving at fairly low speeds to begin with. They can't possibly be more dangerous than motorcycles, and I've got nothing against motorcycle riders anyway, so these fully-enclosed four-wheeled little electro-buggies would be a welcome sight zipping around town.
@@gustaveliasson5395 Well then, you'd need another car to do any highway driving or take a trip in. No one ONLY drives in cities, and nowhere else. And even in cities, at low speed, a car like that would be totaled in a simple fender-bender. And guess who's insurance rates will go sky-high to pay for "disposable cars" that cost more than my dang house? I'm just sayin...
@@beckyyoung2173 I've noticed the arrival of summer in my small town brings out the Polaris and other road-legal vehicles of all use. Some are electric. They can have attachments like a wagon, snow blade, mower, cover and side flaps, or they can be the stripped down version. Some have two rows of seats and some have one row with a pickup-like back. They are often used if you have animals and acreage. In retirement areas the vehicle is very likely to be an electric golf cart, your fair weather go to choice. Then you also have your long distance car or truck for your job or occasionally going to the big city. People have been doing it for decades without the dire results you are afraid of. You need to get out more and experience more. I'm just sayin....
VW's could make a niche for itself if it drives like an electrical go-kart. If so, I'd buy it, since making those electric go-kart dance (at the K1-Speed track) comes naturally.
There good but with the roads we have in the uk and in Medway are full of potholes and falling apart you would really need a newly built smooth road for these small elc cars as the cars are plastic light weight and not built for comfort like the new Citroen Ami and if you notice all these new cars showing you in the video are all on new roads that are completely smooth and flat like a f1 racing track
i live in UK and agree with you. Bojo was excited recently about auctions in whichc tehy were selling butt of the Churchill's cigarette for the amount of one of these great little cars. there is no common sense in House of commons in UK
Hey guys, what city are you watching this video in?
Is the Chinese one available in the UK?
Or The U.S?
Crickets...not a good sign
Northern BC, Canada!
Mansfield, Connecticut, USA ... Feb 20, 2022
I’ve got a Smart EV. Would not trade it, but what everyone needs to realize they are a city car…. Using it around town between 25 and 50 MPH and get 80 to 100 miles per charge. At speeds of 70 or over range will decrease drastically.
I get fed up with comments that the Smart is not good for long journeys on motorways etc totally missing the point as to what this car is for.I would not trade my Smart ev for anything else for local journeys.
How can I get one here in America
@@brandongadie453 Smart have withdrawn from the US market so I guess you would have to import one which may be expensive.
@@brandongadie453 Used would be the only way I can think of that would be reasonable.
Most of us though really only have a use for an around town. Even In the distant past I would either rent a car, take a bus or a train for any trip over a hundred miles.
Most of these cars look useless.
I'm impressed with the Renault Twizy. It's got all the essentials and for such a low price, it's hard to beat
Bring it to Florida! Not all of us are crazy!
Are they good in the snow ? ...
How long does the battery last in 5 degree ( F ) weather , with a defroster & a heater ?
Interesting, how we never seem to get answers to honest questions like this.
That You Can Buy CHEAPLY ???? NILS you can even not buy.
Trikes are the way to go for inner city usage. They save one wheel material on each vehicle, are light weight and lesser stretches on road pavement public resource maintenance,
'Was' is past tense, meaning no more! And why not mention the GWM ORA 'Cat'? They're opening showrooms globally, with their stunning offering.
(11) Wuling Mini EV $4,500-$6000, (2) Volkjswagen Nils $ ???, (3) Citroen Ami $8,500, (3) Renault Twizy $9,000-$17,000????), (4) Uniti One $21,000, (5) Eli Zero $9,900-$11,900 (6) Honda Neu-V $???, Smart EQ $24, 960!!!!
logic and common sense was missing on this video :p
@@mirandela777 Not to mention any idea of what "cheap" looks like on a minimum wage. :(
I'm in the market for a small EV BUT... I live up a rugged mountain track in Spain. I would be using this vehicle to go to the shops (5KM away) but also - I need to know it has the Torque to get back up the hill it came down from. My neighbor rides a 125cc Moped, and with a bag of shopping it works - but it can't handle two people on our hill. So - can anyone recommend a high torque/grip cheap EV to get up a hill and serve as a go kart to shops 5km away?
That VW Nils looks great but I think it was only a prototype for a show a couple years ago and never meant to become an actual production model. We've seen lots of awesome looking cars that never get made. Instead we just get the same-old generic looking stuff...
We need these yesterday
WOW, ALL of these would work perfectly with an attachable drone to make a perfect flying car. A "Snap on Snap off" lite weight EXISTING micro electric car with a separate top fitting powerful snap on/off drone could work TOTADY! When you get close to where you fly into you can snap off the micro car and drive to where you need to go. You own the micro car but the expensive drone is rented and arrives from the drone port ready to go. This would keep the cost low and always have a fully charged snap on drone ready to go. Lots of Drone Ports (Think the new gas station) everywhere storing drones ready to go. On a long trip you just stop at a drone port and switch out the drone for one fully charged. 99% of people could afford this! Keep it simple...... use what we have.... Once perfected this will totally disrupter old fashion expensive cars, clogging up highways and save environment at same time. Let’s snap one of these micro cars to a powerful drone (like Volvocopter 18 blade super structure} and make it work for everyone. AI CONTROLS WITH GPS SHOULD MAKE THIS AN AUTONOMOUS PILOT FROM POINT A TO B...... JUST TELL ALEXIS WHERE YOU WANT TO GO........ Then the whole trillion-dollar highway infrastructure budget can now be used to bulldoze down slums and build quality affordable homes with a drone port on the roof….! WOW….! WE NEED TO THINK SMALL INORDER TO GO BIG! I think this is totally feasible right now for under $20,000 plus monthly drone rental fees? A lot better than $250,000 plus which no one can afford like the X2, Pop Up and the Airbus fly cars now being built. Please make a basic model for everyone. Partner with a drone mfg. and get er done.....! All of these microelectrics could all work today with a snap on drone….?!?!?!?!
Are any of these legal in the United States and can we buy them here?
This is the future of cars
Yes sir!
What’s the price?
Not one of these is available in the US.
any of these legal in the US? doubt it.
Do they sell these in the US?
Sorry,what was the PRICE again??
All cars are beautifullllllllll
Twizy, £15k but you still have to lease the battery, are you nuts! I think there is a partial argument if you live in a city but if you travel 30 miles to work, none of these are really useful. Also what if you have kids… how do you do a weekly shopping visit. And this is all before the the environmental impact of battery cars. ICE not perfect but not this bad. The Smart takes 8hrs if you charge from a home socket, every night. 70 miles of range so if you work 30 miles away, bit of a gamble in getting home especially if the temperature drops below 5 degrees C. Good luck guys, enjoy your fantasy, just don’t get caught smoking it, it’s still illegal 😂
The Honda neu V doors are a very bad design. They open too close too the ground and anything on the ground could damage them; parking beside a curb and opening the door would totally wreck the door.
I really wished people would stop the bullcrap lie "this is the EV that's giving Tesla a run for it's money".. nothing can compete with the tesla and even the tesla is far from being a perfect transport, as, as with all EVs, you have VERY limited range and long recharge times. I dont care how much or how little you pay for an EV, it cant compete with a combustion engine vehicle for long trips.
9-17 THOUSANDS $ for basically a bicycle is not cheap & then you have to lease the battery on top of it that? This is a very bad joke.
Only the Chinese Micro EV is what you could call cheap enough to make it affordable for the masses. Most are expensive for their size and capabilities.
every manufacturer aim is to exploit what you called green, (it ain't green when they built it especially mass production), they just make it aesthetically pleasing and advertise it as green... and yes for more profit.
and you have to take into account the cost of a new battery pack
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@@nosnibor800 Yes.Chinese batteries are cheaper. They are the biggest Lithium producer globally.
it is sold in the Philippines for $11,000
VW Nils "Long before Tesla?" Tesla has been selling electric cars since 2008. VW showed this in 2011 and it wasn't even a production car. There is something wrong with your math
There’s no such thing as “cheap EVs” . In comparison with each other that’s about it, against combustion engine vehicles, they are 4-5 times the price of and nothing but an inconvenience to find chargers. Not to mention varying prices make them a pain to own as you still need to babysit them like phones.
For eg i didn’t use my EV for a couple of weeks and come out to find the battery has discharged enough that if it was petrol, it would be classified as a *leak!*
I can leave my petrol car for 6 months, disconnect the battery and connect it back up and it will start and still have a FULL fuel tank…
Not to mention once the battery has dropped its performance on an EV the car is scrap, since it’s 2/3s the overall price of the car
The VW Nils never went into production as far as im aware, so why does the Video say top 8 cars you can buy cheaply ?
Most of them are not at all cheaply anyway lol
He just want you to view his youtube post and comments to earn
@@woofaki5550 - some of them are MORE expensive than a SUV ! ( see Dacia )
So where do you buy these at ... can't find anything!
Unofficial dealers bring them overseas
You can only buy two of the vehicles! (Twizy and Smart) The others are only concep vehicles...
Ami has been in production for 3 years now, Fiat now sells nor one but two Ami look a likes.
Hey, next time can you give the speeds and ranges in metric as well, please? We aren't all in America. Thanks.
Americans don't understand inches, yards & miles either. Give them a Six-Pack & TV screen, you can take the wife for the "ride" of your life.
And yet to produce the the batteries for these electric cars does More harm to the environment than gas or diesel
UTTERLY USELESS VIDEO. Many of these "vehicles" are NOT AVAILABLE in the USA (quotes, because a lot of them AREN'T EVEN CARS) and I can barely understand what you are saying.
The Chinese one is the best by far. 120km base model & top model for $5400 drivable to 170km and normal seating. No contest with the price either .
Yet it is placed at 8th - when it is in mass production, out sold Tesla, and as you said better specifics.
@@emilyblade9676 Nah it should be first most of the others have much smaller range and are far more expensive. It's a joke 8th
Add the AC and airbags for last versions. And charging at a regular power socket. They do 100km with 80 cents ! The chinese model at nr 8 is BY FAR the best car from all !
I think they did not consider the practicality. Just the aesthetics for this list.
How long will it last ??
It’s funny to see that Smart, which I believe, is the one of the smallest car looks like the biggest.
I drive Smart for two😀
(Not the electric one.)
I also have a SMART For Two (Not electric)! And I thought my Mazda Miata was SMALL!!😂
@@MaryKDeane Surprisingly does not feel that small when you get in one.
@@davidspendlove5900 Exactly!👍 Unlike my Mazda Miata, the SMART definitely doesn't feel like it's as small as it is.
It is a surprise that you are still alive! Whoa !
@@simster1001
Yup.
Smart cars are much stronger than bicycles.
😊👍
I think these cars suffer badly from Unobtainium.. The Smart EQ is way over-priced and just not that good. The Twizy also but is more appealing. Despite seeing them on the streets for years in Europe, Renault have now quit making them. They created a well received classic and then dropped it - cheers Renault!! The Citroen Ami I don't think will be available in RHD anytime soon. The Unity, which is the best of all worlds - well we have not heard from it for years. Eventually, we might be spoilt for choice for small EVs but probably not this decade.
plus they aren't going to sell them to just anyone with enough money -- Expect rejected payment and *sorry not for sale to YOU*
Agreed
Pizza delivery has never looked so good 😆
Are any sold in the U.S.?
25 000 pounds ! Real cheap ! 98% of world's population can't afford that !
So you can't buy some of these, some are completely impractical, some are ridiculousl;y expensive for what they are and only the Wu Ling is cheap, affordable and useful. So only one small EV that you can buy cheaply that is actually any good and you can't buy that car in my country or in fact in any country except China.
The voice gives a headache!!
I think we have many small towns. Where people could get to and from home and grocery stores.
I live on a PENINSULA. Also I'm 75 miles from a freeway for goodness sakes
We don't all live around giant trucks. We just want to dip from one small location to another.
enough of the SMALL "city cars" with flat level roads
... I go 400 FT elevation - 3 times a day ( from one end of town to the other )
I would like to know more about the ev electric cars and where you can buy or get one.
It's a concept car... It's not available to buy yet. I do the research on all of these car videos that get recommended to me and most of these are concept or not even on the market in the US yet
Having driven a mini i know how invisible tiny cars are to careless drivers in big cars and lorry drivers.
I was hit, sometimes badly, by people who just "didn't see me".
I got fed up with always having to deal with other people's insurers.
It's a miracle i wasn't badly hurt.
Like with a motorcycle but with a lot more "padding" to protect you. Was your car a bright color? My sister got a used car in school bus yellow. She wasn't a fan of the look but loved the visibility.
None of these would ever be as safe as a full size car. Multi lane highways like the interstates in the US or the Autobahn in Germany are not the places to be driving these cars.
They are nice for city commutes in something like London..... but LA, Boston, Chicago, Houston.....would be too much of a risk with loops around the cities of 8 or more lanes of traffic moving at high speeds. That is why the US doesn't bother even trying to market these types of EVs.
Smaller EVs also probably do less damage to roads
And the less miles driven between charges because the battery cells will be smaller.
How many miles does a battery pack last ? How much does a new battery pack cost ? Is this cost higher than the residual value of the vehicle ? I think this is the case - hence EV's are not economically viable, at present. Or am I wrong ?
With the sun and the wind I will travel forever. . . since I consume electricity to travel, why not recover some of it using a mini or micro wind generator, with vertical axis, placed externally somewhere in the car and a system of solar panels? These systems will deliver energy. . forever. (I mean: a moving object, like a car, will create a vortex in the air, the wind. When it hits the wind turbine, it will generate electricity that will recharge the batteries).
That Honda NEUV
If it didn't have that self driving rubbish (uk spec) then it would be a good car.
HANA sounds good.
So what's the price???
Probably 10 x MORE than the chinese one with 4 seats and no auto driver !
Are any sold in the U.S,?
You're missing the point that no urban city in the world has enough chargers for the number of cars currently. And who wants to come up against a Range Rover in that VW?
"Chargers"
You mean... wall outlets?
You don't have enough wall outlets?
I'm a humble european who lives in a house with three exterior outlets, plus two in the garage, and another two in the garden shed.
You'll be fine.
@@gustaveliasson5395 well I'm a Brit who lives in a flat in France. In a town with barely enough charging points for 20000 people. So I mean chargers. The type that cars plug into in order to replenish the battery. What else could I mean?
@@aacmove
That's cool; my dad used to live in a flat on a disused military base (armour regiment, I think), but there were dedicated parking spaces with electrical outlets for running car heaters in the frigid winter mornings.
My mom's flat also came with dedicated parking... and her mother lives in a flat with an underground garage.
Well I'll be damned, it seems the possibility of a flat *without* a dedicated parking space and outdoor electrical outlets was completely overlooked.
Privilege checked, I suppose.
E-bikes, then? An electrified velomobile so as to not be completely exposed to the elements? Something with a detachable battery, at any rate.
@@gustaveliasson5395 Grasse 36 charging stations. Population 50000!
@@aacmove
Correct!
And irrelevant when talking about an electric vehicle that doesn't need charging stations.
Big questions for the American buyer...
1 do you need a license to drive it?
2 is it street legal since these cars can't keep up with reg speeds of traffic?
3 are they insurable?
4 are they safe if you are involved in an accident with more typical vehicles?
5 would law enforcement mess with you all the time?
6 how hard is it to get hands on parts or have it worked on? and related
7 what does the routine maintenance look like?
Really the videos I'm seeing they look like ramped up barbie cars that toddlers get for Christmas.
And honestly I do wonder if we should focus instead on more infrastructure for these and also golf carts etc.
Something is telling me I should consider buying a bike...
Yes it's insured. We have a twizy goes max 80 km per hour. I don't know speed in American standards. Its just fine within smaller distances. Like a covered up scooter. But a scooter u can pass the traffic jams not with this. Twizy bit easier to park as its smaller than a car.
All your questions are yes for 8. Chinese car and the cheapest one too. I did test in İstanbul streets last week and I am sold. 108km per hour speed capability legal in interstate roads insurance ok and home use electric is required. Very roomy very comfortable suspensions very practical in city only downside is small wheel diameter (12 inch ) compare to others but honestly I can say feeling like normal size car reactions on poles.
For city driving in Europe, no need for speed...very soon all capitals and big towns will reduce their speed inside the cities to 30km/h....even the Ami could get a speeding ticket.
Wuling is now 16k, not 4k. I feel like They are falsely advertising this Ev
No dealer offers this
Why are so many of these micro cars not available in USA?
I would like to see a EV DRIVE THROUGH 4 feet of snow
Why Not to consider the Italian Estrima Birò? Two seats in 1.03m width, it parks like a motorcycle
All governments shou!d make these compulsory for cities. Just do it!!
Yes, but are these vehicles up to the requisite safety standards of countries other than China. If I buy one direct can I register it in my country? USA would be questionable, what about Europe?
Puh, impractical, bloody ugly and way overpriced. Also, South Australia and Victoria introduced a tax for every kilometre you drive an EV. I'll stick with combustion vehicles, thanks.
These vehicles should be everywhere but they're not
Great for being in a wreck the way people drive Huh
Interesting subject but I only made it 3 minutes in - couldn't tolerate the presenter's IRRITATING voice
Hi, Great video, I have been looking for a ev 2 seater, e-car that is advertised on RUclips, after I finally got information on purchasing one. But the price keeps changing from $6,000 dollars to a low of $69 dollars? I don't understand how they can be sold for this price.
If they made the specs on the WV Niles much better I would totally get one. Eli Zero is super cute. Wish it would go 70 mph. 50 at least
Thanks for your comment!
I'M IN NJ, and I don't see mentioned IF and WHERE these are available, but thanks for including the PRICE$$$! Great stuff coming out!
I like the last four ev but where I live people drive like savages. It would not be safe to drive these tiny vehicles. Thanks you for taking the time to share.
Which one can you buy in the United States?
The BATTERY is NOT SOLD woth the CAR??? That is RIDICULOUS. Why?
Is it a crap battery? So if it is leased and it stops working you can't sue their stupid azz.
What kind of USELESS crap is that?
Sadly small EV-s are not as affordable than they should be. They are too small, too weak, often for 1-2 people and with nearly zero cargo space, while they are still expensive. Their weak spot is not the lot of compromise, but their price/value ratio. People can buy much larger, much stronger used cars with AC and every feature for less price. Too much compromise and still too expensive. Toys for wealthy people.
Showing skate boarders and bicyclist keeping pace with your electric car which cost Thousands more doesn't seem to be a good selling practice....
It's so irritating to hear people talking about range being unfortunately low. I don't think range is a big deal if the batteries are removable and can be charged inside your home with minimal effort. For me, speed is the deciding factor. I can legally travel 55 on a short stretch of my daily commute. I don't need 55 mph but I do need 45. Without that, I'm not a potential buyer. I would think that the same holds true for most people who work in the same city in which they live. I can even go to the restaurant on the outskirts of town in a 45 mph car. I'd get an impeding citation if I tried that in a LSV. Give me 30 miles at 45 mph, an enclosed cabin, decent suspension and a price of $10K or less and I'll buy one within a year of it hitting the market.
i wish cars like the Handa-Neu-V, the Uniti One and the VW NILS coming on the road like they show us there prototypes. but everytime the come to life there are boring as fuck.
ok the VW iD buzz came about 80% like the prototype thats great but 100% are cool. but yea cut down cost and easy manufaktury there have to go boring but what if there build them futuristic as shown would you by one? i would because i get hyped and after couple years they came out and i look at them and think whats that shit it looks like the older one nothing change realy. so whats the point building a design prototype and then doing the same boring like before and call it version 2.0? i dont understand it
God most of these are absolute junk for the price. Nearly all have less then a 100 mile range and a cap of 30MPH. considering topping off a battery at 100% wears the battery faster I just can't see these as anything near feasible except in niche uses, like city driving If you are doing that it would be easier and better for the environment to just use public transport.
Some of theses would be perfect as a Snap on Snap off Drone attachments. OK, so 99 % of cars have 1 person in them.... My concept of the perfect flying car is a "snap on snap off" 1 person 3 wheel lite weight electric golf cart with separate top fitting snap on drone. When you get close to where you fly into you can un snap the cart and drive to where you want to go. You own the cart but the drone is rented. Keep the cost low and let the drone attachment recharge. You will not get the same drone back each time as they are charging up. Lots of city Drone Ports and one at your house. 99% of people could afford this....! Keep it simple...... use what we have.... Cart battery used as back up to drone! Total disrupter to old fashion expensive cars, clogged up highways and oil energy industries..... save environment at same time...???
why should we take this video serious? you say long before tesla in 2011..... first tesla came out in 2008 do you guys have any idea what your talking about?
By the way folks, electric cars are nothing new, because I saw a video of the early electric cars, and that was back in the 1920s. They had them plugged into the sockets at the factory so that when a person bought one, they could drive it home immediately and keep them charged when needed. They were small like these, but they were still good to drive. I liked all of these cars, and anyone of them would get me to rhe store or anyplace else that I need to go to.
Excuse me but before the german car, the french company Renault made the Twizzy (.../...)
some of these cars are way overpriced.
I would't pay more than 3000 euro on a full option EV car considering the short autonomy and not being suitable for off road driving
So dangerous with the 18-wheelers out here on our nasty roads of the Earth. They're just too small I mean in reality you're only drive these to the supermarket or local super centers but out on the main roads where there's bigger cars than these little cars is crazy they're just too small and they're getting smaller and smaller it's not fair have a family who's their life because they're doing this car was cute but you really didn't protect them in the long run
Yeah. Innovative and exciting. I think the world has passed most of us by. Cars are no longer affordable. These cars are cheaper than conventional midsize cars. I guess we're all soon on foot.
I stopped watching as soon as you said the Wuling mini Death machine was giving the Tesla Model 3 a run for it's money ... 🤡
ELI ZERO, $9K-$11900 but it is rear drive meaning may not be for snow. Smart IQ $24K,
Kinda silly narration. That first car, that sells for $4500 "is giving the Tesla 3 a run for its money"? Really?
Look these things need to do a minimum of 40 mph to be safe and of practical use even in an urban setting. Anything under 30mph is just dangerous…
this video is nonsense because you can't buy a prototype (vw) and you can't buy a never-released car from an insolvent startup (uniti) and you can't buy a concept car (honda)
None available for sale in U.S. market 😐
lols some of the models here sell from 21k onwards ain't actually cheap which most people won't consider considering the fact that it's a small car as it can't carry much either in humans or stuffs
Small evs are cute but like a toy car. Not so impressive design.
I'll stick with my electric bike . :)
Very interesting video! It’s great to see the possible EV options for urban drivers that are looking for very small EVs. 🚗 ⚡️
Yeah, but they're plastic! And have you thought about what would happen to one of those teeny plastic cars if you tangle with a regular car or 18 wheeler? You & your teeny car are permanently mashed together for all time.
@@beckyyoung2173
Plastic panels on a metal frame, typically.
They're also aimed at city use, where both they -and whatever other vehicle they might be involved in a crash with- will statistically speaking be moving at fairly low speeds to begin with.
They can't possibly be more dangerous than motorcycles, and I've got nothing against motorcycle riders anyway, so these fully-enclosed four-wheeled little electro-buggies would be a welcome sight zipping around town.
@@gustaveliasson5395 Well then, you'd need another car to do any highway driving or take a trip in. No one ONLY drives in cities, and nowhere else. And even in cities, at low speed, a car like that would be totaled in a simple fender-bender. And guess who's insurance rates will go sky-high to pay for "disposable cars" that cost more than my dang house? I'm just sayin...
@@beckyyoung2173 I've noticed the arrival of summer in my small town brings out the Polaris and other road-legal vehicles of all use. Some are electric. They can have attachments like a wagon, snow blade, mower, cover and side flaps, or they can be the stripped down version. Some have two rows of seats and some have one row with a pickup-like back. They are often used if you have animals and acreage. In retirement areas the vehicle is very likely to be an electric golf cart, your fair weather go to choice. Then you also have your long distance car or truck for your job or occasionally going to the big city. People have been doing it for decades without the dire results you are afraid of. You need to get out more and experience more. I'm just sayin....
Most of these are just fancy golf carts
These cars are fine, but how many of them are Legal to drive in the United States.
Four seater with decent boot space for $4.5K is a steal. Smaller than that is a joke.
don't buy chinese
NILS is like the SEAT Minimo, but i dont see here the Silence S04.
VW's could make a niche for itself if it drives like an electrical go-kart. If so, I'd buy it, since making those electric go-kart dance (at the K1-Speed track) comes naturally.
There good but with the roads we have in the uk and in Medway are full of potholes and falling apart you would really need a newly built smooth road for these small elc cars as the cars are plastic light weight and not built for comfort like the new Citroen Ami and if you notice all these new cars showing you in the video are all on new roads that are completely smooth and flat like a f1 racing track
i live in UK and agree with you. Bojo was excited recently about auctions in whichc tehy were selling butt of the Churchill's cigarette for the amount of one of these great little cars. there is no common sense in House of commons in UK
The Nils was a concept car that was never built. Nobody can buy it. Your title is a lie.