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That ^^ mirrors my experience with a couple 3-4 month stints of ownership. Use of public chargers was fine given our fairly limited use of the car, and also having cars with reasonable range (Kona and an id3)

I wouldn’t want to be on street charging in London if I was using the car every day though, and needing to charge every couple of days. It’s maybe possible, but it would be very time consuming to manage

I’m banking on two big Tesla supercharges per week.
I do about 400 miles per week so 300 miles from superchargers =30 minutes, 100 miles from 13 amp =12 hrs , with some additional from BP chargers.

The tax savings on EV vs ICE are bonkers; on the NHS scheme the cost of a 1.0 litre VW Polo is identical to a BMW I4 M Sport Gran Coupe, both less than six months old.

Wow, grabbed a cancelled order for a Nissan Leaf on the NHS scheme so brand new and no wait and a hilarious price. Am excite. Last car I 'owned' for more than a week was a 1982 Ford Escort.

Spotted in real life. I didn’t know these were available outside of France.

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Love them. It just looks French.

Perfect city car.

There's one on the front of Telford Citroen here in Carlisle, I assume it's for sale..

Yep. Another fab bit of efficient fit-for-purpose design that no one will buy because it’s not an SUV.

If I lived in London, that would be our second car 100%.

Minimum distance our second car needs to do, living nr Cambridge, is 55 miles inc dual carriageway unfortunately.

Hope there is a market for small, efficient, low range / low cost cars moving forwards though.

Like the Honda e but without the price tag.

There's one near me with numberplate AMI 4 PUB.

I didn’t know these were available outside of France

Not only that but you can order one online unlike all the other cars

I was wondering what cheapest car lease deal available was to compare to NHS scheme last week, and the low to high sort was just about 30 pages of these things

Yeah, they're like £7.5k base.

I think you can get one for £20 a month on PCP with a deposit.

Legally it's a "left hand drive quadricycle"

Having owned a 'funny little car', as @Soul puts it, I can't help feeling they will attract all the cunty behaviour on the road.

Ha. I though you weren’t rising to that 😅

For what it’s worth, I think they’re awesome cars and I wish more similar cars were made. I just thought it was a bad faith argument to say it’s existence means the rest of the hybrid market isn’t complete shit.

Re: cunty behaviour on the road, I get enough of that in the Zoe and it’s a marked difference between that and the Tesla. It would be monumentally bad in the Ami given it tops out at 28mph.

tops out at 28mph

This is the worry I’d have with one (I know it’s a legal thing).

I’ve got an early 1500w electric moped which is limited to 28mph and never really used it because of all the car drivers mad tailgating or overtaking in 30 zones.

Obviously seconds after they’d overtaken they’d get to the back of a queue and I’d filter past.

Repeat repeat repeat.

It was more stressful and not really any faster than riding a bike.

I love the Ami. A near great example of design for environment. The body panels are unpainted ABS (I think maybe recycled also?), and can repaired incredibly easily with little more than a heat gun for most dings apparently. I like the Cargo one best. £160 PM with £50 deposit over 24 months. I would absolutely order one if i lived in a city.

The front and rear bumpers are actually the same part and come out of the same mould, they just have different lights fitted depending on which end they are needed for. I believe the doors and quarter panels also share tooling for each side and are just trimmed accordingly post moulding depending which side they are destined for. Some very clever thinking on the manufacturing process to enable it to compete on pricing with some of the more expensive cargo E-bikes now available which are starting to take a growing share of the urban mobility market.

I dont think it should be considered as a car, more a tool for urban mobility.

People that park cars like them and smart cars are absolute dicks.

For something like the AMI, how big could the battery be? If it were easily removable so it could be charged indoors (fire risk aside) I think it would work even better for those without driveways or kerbside charging. My GSD's 0.5kwh battery weights about three kilos, so 11 times that (dummy maths, I would assume it's not going to be as much as that even) is not beyond the realms of possibility for carrying indoors. Would help with security and adds the option to have a spare.

Make an accessible hatch, ruggedised casing, extendable handle, wheels. Away you go.

I'm not really sure what the Ami offers that a bike doesn't. Not suitable for transporting young kids, pretty restricted in where it can go due to the limited speed, no boot for those trips to IKEA.

It seems like an expensive and unnecessary solution for a very specific set of circumstances.

A roof.

An enormous proportion of car journeys in this country are people driving themselves 5-10 miles to work, or going to pick up a few bags of shopping, and as we have an aversion to bicycles, on paper it’s an excellent idea.

Unfortunately having a vehicle that’s suitable for that and only that isn’t going to appeal, plus many of those journeys will involve a segment on a 50 mph bypass or link road somewhere.

Has anyone sold their house and kept their EV charger?

My dilemma is, we sold our EV last year, but I still have the charger in the garage. It’s appealing to the new house owner, but it might come in handy in the future on the new property.

People think cycling in london is 'too scary', so its at least better than driving a massive modern car with nobody else in it (like 60% of journeys in london are)