BMW adds a 70 mph e-scooter to the range

[themutiny]

I watched the video twice, just to make sure I hadn't misheard. At around 1min 10 the rather soulless and robotic commentator claimed the battery was 8 ampere hours allowing 120 kph and 100km between charges.

That's impressive - can I get one of those?

 

[Mussels]

Nice ground clearance on that, I could have a lot of fun scraping the fairing round corners.

 

[Scimitar]

one can buy the Renault Twizy two seater electric scootercar for under £7000 or a little more with side doors, and that's what I'd rather have in the city:

Renault Twizy
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Good God - and they said the Bubble Car was dead.
Frankly, I'd rather have one of the originals, because that must be one of the ugliest microcars I've ever clapped eyes on. How cool would it be to have an original (or repro) Messerschmidt two-seater tricycle, but electrically powered?

 

[flecc]

Good God - and they said the Bubble Car was dead.
Frankly, I'd rather have one of the originals, because that must be one of the ugliest microcars I've ever clapped eyes on. How cool would it be to have an original (or repro) Messerschmidt two-seater tricycle, but electrically powered?

It does look a bit weird, it is French after all, but it's quite practical in a number of ways, amazingly stable with it's underfloor batteries and power unit and by the look of it on all the tester's films, great fun. It really goes too.

Personally I like electric cars to look different and not ape petrol cars, just as I'm happy for e-bikes to look different from normal bikes. They are different so why not be different, and I'd be very happy to be seen driving the Twizy.