by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 01/03/2017 at 13:41
by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 01/03/2017 at 13:41
Tags: CES
STARS: 1
CES is often a dreadful time for cars. Automakers put forth concepts that’ll never see the light of day in production form, or technology you’ll start seeing in cars 5-10 years from now.
You’ll also see the birth of completely random automakers that will disappear into the history of vaporware merely a few months after their debut.
Today I present to you, the latter. Meet the Eli Zero Electric. And as you probably guessed, Eli is some freshly created company from China with little more than a less-than-useless website and (so far) rendered photos of their product. Their rendered photos allude to a range of 372 miles when fully charged...which will be the only information you can gather from this concept.
It ultimately answers the question “what if you were take a Twizy and make it slightly more like a smart fortwo?”
In the looks department, the Zero is effectively a Twizy with the seats of a smart and a grille inspired by recent Daimler concepts.
You can see them at CES this year.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
01/03/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 1
Oh Manning, this Eli looks ok actually :]
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
01/03/2017 at 13:50, STARS: 1
At least it looks more original than the last Chinese Twizy copy:
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
01/03/2017 at 13:50, STARS: 1
There’s no way there’s 372 mi worth of batteries in there.
"Probenja" (probenja)
01/03/2017 at 14:09, STARS: 1
Could be worse:
"marshknute" (marshknute)
01/03/2017 at 14:10, STARS: 4
It looks a lot better than the real Twizy.
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
01/03/2017 at 14:12, STARS: 1
I guess they took the Twizy falling into the three wheeled quadricycle category a bit too serious, haha.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/03/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 0
I believe it’s possible, but not in a vehicle that’s about the quarter of the size of a Tesla! :)
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/03/2017 at 14:55, STARS: 0
I didn’t even see that joke coming!!! 10/10 would laugh again :)
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/03/2017 at 14:56, STARS: 0
Agreed, plus it doesn’t have the unfathomably bad tandem seating that the Twizy has (apparently it’s impossible to get in and out of back there).
"Phatboyphil" (justphil)
01/03/2017 at 15:50, STARS: 0
Yeah, but vaporware is very light weight!
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
01/03/2017 at 18:06, STARS: 0
i’ll take the Renault.