Renault’s Compact Twizy EV Hits Australia For Promo Duties
Renault’s tiny Twizy two-seater, a battery-powered electric car designed to be the ultimate in city mobility, is now in Australia. You can’t buy one, though; there’s no category for so bizarre a thing as this ‘quadricycle’
Renault’s tiny Twizy two-seater, a battery-powered electric car designed to be the ultimate in city mobility, is now in Australia.
You can’t buy one, though; there’s no category for so bizarre a thing as this ‘quadricycle’ in the Australian Design Rules, and so it can’t be registered here.
To be allowed on our roads, the Twizy would have to meet the same compliance criteria as other four-wheeled passenger cars. That’s simply not what it was designed to be.
So, for now, the Twizy is here for promotional duties only, but local Renault boss Justin Hocevar remains enthusiastic for the little city car’s potential.
“We don’t think that just because Twizy has a steering wheel instead of a handlebar it should be automatically disqualified from consideration as a legitimate form of personal transport in Australia,” he said.
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