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The world's most important electric car is launching now, and it's not a Porsche or Tesla - The electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid
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- Authors
- Edward Niedermeyer
- Published
- Sep 9 2019
- Word count
- 538 words
Under £/$/€9K for a 100+ mile EV?
I would buy that. I would very much like to buy that. That would cover probably 99% of my driving needs and I can rent a nice big long distance car for the remaining one or two trips a year.
Now, I just need to find £9K...
Is that the total cost of ownership? In the UK the Renault Twizy has a mandatory battery hire charge imposed, and that's a minimum of £45 per month. https://www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/twizy/battery-and-charging.html
It'll be interesting to see what this costs in the UK in general (assuming it meets UK/EU safety standards and gets marketed here), given that the Twizy's base price is already pretty close - once you start adding luxury items like "doors" to the spec, it's essentially on par. Given how much the market has moved on in the 7 years since it launched, I'm thinking that the Twizy might just be on a legacy pricing model and they'd rather cannibalise their own market than wait for a competitor to do so.
I'm seeing three main possibilities for the Kwid:
Is that £45 per month on top of more maintenance fees? Because a second-hand car will usually set you back a lot in terms of monthly fees as well.