Ever wondered what a Twizy would look like if China copied it?

"Mercedes Streeter" (smart) 01/03/2017 at 13:41 • Filed to: CES

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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.

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EL_ULY > Mercedes Streeter 01/03/2017 at 13:48

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Oh Manning, this Eli looks ok actually :]

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Mercedes Streeter 01/03/2017 at 13:50

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At least it looks more original than the last Chinese Twizy copy:

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Mercedes Streeter 01/03/2017 at 13:50

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There’s no way there’s 372 mi worth of batteries in there.

Probenja > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/03/2017 at 14:09

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Could be worse:

marshknute > Mercedes Streeter 01/03/2017 at 14:10

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It looks a lot better than the real Twizy.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Probenja 01/03/2017 at 14:12

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I guess they took the Twizy falling into the three wheeled quadricycle category a bit too serious, haha.

Mercedes Streeter > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/03/2017 at 14:54

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I believe it’s possible, but not in a vehicle that’s about the quarter of the size of a Tesla! :)

Mercedes Streeter > EL_ULY 01/03/2017 at 14:55

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I didn’t even see that joke coming!!! 10/10 would laugh again :)

Mercedes Streeter > marshknute 01/03/2017 at 14:56

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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 > Mercedes Streeter 01/03/2017 at 15:50

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Yeah, but vaporware is very light weight!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Mercedes Streeter 01/03/2017 at 18:06

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i’ll take the Renault.