Issues to notice: the Citroen AMI is not technically a automobile in any respect. The brand new AMI is actually a heavy quadricycle which suggests, in some European international locations, you’ll be able to drive it from as younger as 14 and with no driving licence. However not within the UK.
Which may not matter as a result of, not like the Renault Twizy (and bear in mind the G-Wiz?) this left-hand drive metropolis runabout won’t go on sale within the UK in any respect. In order for you it introduced right here, you will need to register your curiosity with Citroen.
However both method it is a cool factor. It’s extremely small, to adjust to quadricycle rules, and is barely allowed a high pace of 28mph. It is electrical, with a 5.5kWh battery and a shocking 8bhp. Sure, eight. No, that is not a typo.
Made in a brand new manufacturing facility in Morocco, the Citroen AMI, developed from the even cuter AMI ONE idea, is meant to be used round cities the place it will have a spread of round 40 miles and has a cost time from a home socket of roughly three and a half hours.
It has two seats, no opening boot, and prices £6000 or thereabouts in France, after an area clean-car rebate has been utilized. And we have tried it within the UK. Be a part of us for a take a look at of one of the vital novel ‘automobiles’ of 2020 proper right here.
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