c'est un low-tech!

[menthe]

https://www.wedemain.fr/inventer/la-gazelle-une-voiture-electrique-low-tech-made-in-france/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-fr-fr

Maybe it's only a gazelle in name!  However, it might suit us well enough.

OH insisted on driving me to the dentist this morning and, because there is fog everywhere we made the whole journey at an average speed of about 50 kph.  I was so nervous about missing my appointment, I suggested that I took over the driving several times during the journey.

But no, one's masculine pride is at stake!  Mind you, it's his car....not for the first time, I wished I still had my own wheels!

[Harnser]

The first thing to know about these low volume cars, as with the voitures sans -permis is that the level of built- in crash protection for the occupants is not to the same standard as normal cars - would not consider one for that very reason.

Why buy something like the car you featured when you can buy a Dacia Spring EV from the mainstream Renault/Dacia brand at a comparable price? €15800?

https://www.dacia.fr/gamme-electrique-et-hybride/spring-electrique.html

 

[menthe]

Harnser, I wasn't thinking of buying one!

And, like you, I wondered about safety and indeed whether a strong gust of wind could blow it over!

I only put it out there to see what people who do know a great deal more about cars than I would say about it.

In fact, I am still half thinking about an Aygo.  Also I am testing out how it would be sharing just the one car.

[Judith]

Menthe, one of my French friends has an Aygo, she's found it good and it can get quite nippy .. you could do worse ...