Seat"s made its very own Renault Twizy

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Looky-here, urban estate agents and promoters of fizzy energy drinks. Need a new town runaround for your business? Battery getting a bit tired on your Renault Twizy? Fear not! Help is at hand! From the Seat Minimo. It"s like a Twizy, but Spanish. And a concept car. It"s buzzword bingo from Seat on this one. "Vision of the future of urban mobility"? Check. "Developed to help meet the challenges of city driving, emission regulations, increasing fatigue of traffic jams or the lack of parking spaces"? Check. Does Seat claim the Minimo lives in the sweet spot between the safety of the comfort of a car, and the smallness of a motorbike"? Of course it does. Naturally, the 1+1-seater is electric, and has been designed with battery-swapping in mind, so charging is less of a bugbear. Seat reckons this could help lower the cost and complication of running a city car sharing service, like those app-based bike-share schemes you"ll have come across. Mostly when tripping over the errant discarded bikes dumped all over pavements and car parks.

Date written: 25 Feb 2019

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