hello dear viewers and welcome to review from the other side of the world. I want to start today's video with a bit of admission I am a cheapskate in fact few things bring me as much joy as not spending money it gives me a little thrill in my heart but
what if a cheapskate like me wanted to buy a car say something that cost about as much as
a motorcycle while also offering fully electric transportation 4-4 with a roof well it would seem that for now at a starting price of about 4500 the best and maybe only answer is this
the cooling mini ev the exterior styling of the mini ev takes a lot of inspiration from k cars that wonderfully quirky class of microcar from japan. it has the same upright box on wheels
look as micro vans like the honda city and Suzuki every remarkably however it is even smaller than those cars measuring in at less than three meters in length I think it's that stubbiness that gives it most of its charm it all comes together to look like something like a pug
on wheels, all scrunched up face and squat little body.
it's really hard not to smile when you look at this car, of course, no conversation about the
outside of this car could fail to mention this beautiful dorymon sticker on the side of it this was put on by the dealership from which we're borrowing this car and it is used as kind of a demonstrator if you see these things in the wild you will know that many many owners put
on all sorts of stickers I've seen german flags and french flags and Chinese flags and any number of things while we're on the side, I also need to point out these wonderful wonderful wheels that's right we're rocking 12-inch alloys baby on 145 70 section tires but hey you pay bike prices you get bike tires one of the more amazing things that I learned about this car was that it went from clean-sheet design to start of production in about 12 months that's insanely fast for the car industry where developing even the simplest vehicle usually takes years
the rare design is pretty nice to look at as well with this black piece here that kind of adds a
a little bit of width to the look if I open up the rear hatch here.
you will see that it is not a full-size rear door which is a little bit disappointing in terms of accessibility and storage speaking of storage it is at a premium here in the back which
I guess you can't expect much from a car this small I brought this cardboard box just to give you an idea if I place it here it just barely fits.
now that we're inside the mini ev I can tell you that there are absolutely no frills in here the only screen for example is the small one here in front of the driver that acts as an instrument
Cluster there are some nice little splashes of variety for instance here around the middle controls too as the blue around the shift handle and a few different spots yet, it's the point at which you begin contacting things that you recollect why it is this vehicle finishes out at under 55 hundred dollars plastic quality especially here on the entryway as well as the level broad dashboard is somewhere close to an economy vehicle and a public washroom
highlights in the animal gathering are by what you would anticipate
notwithstanding the screen that administrations the instrument bunch you likewise get a
simple showcase for your sound framework that would check home in a vehicle out
from the mid-1980s seat change is manual yet you get power windows those used to be discretionary on vehicles that cost far more than they did how the circumstances are different
the rearward sitting arrangements are comparably confined as you would anticipate presently the plan of the seats is additionally very exceptionally essential similar to the fronts and they're not espexceedinglyreeable I can't envision developed grown-ups being blissful back here for over 15 minutes at a time or thereabouts obviously to go staple
the shopping you would have to overlap these seats down.in any case, the smaller than usual ev is controlled by a single back-mounted electric engine putting out 17.5 torque and 85 newton
meters of force through a solitary speed transmission this beast of a machine its juice from either a 9.3 or then again 13.5-kilowatt hour lithium-particle battery pack delivering 120 and 170 kilometers of range respectively there will be no fast charging for this little guy so it will take you anywhere from 6.5 to 9 hours to charge your mini ev on a normal 240-volt outlet
Interestingly the mini even comes equipped with an energy recovery system which I absolutely did not expect as a result pedal driving is both possible and easy physics being what it is even at a bunker of 665 kilograms the mini v is not quick I wouldn't even necessarily describe it
as spirited acceleration over 20 kilometers an hour or so is very very mild cooling does not provide an official zero to 100 kilometer per hour time.
I think that's for two reasons
the first is that the official top speed of this car is 100 kilometers per hour the other is
that I don't think very many people are brave enough to actually drive it that fast I say this because the ruling mini ev much like the hong gong
plus
from cooling that we drove earlier this year has a conspicuous lack of safety equipment I'm not referring to equipment that is now standard fare across the industry like lane keep assist or blind spot monitoring no I mean that apart from abs and seat belts this thing has almost no safety equipment at all.
that means no airbags no electronic stability programming nothing there's not even a passenger seatbelt reminder there's only one for the driver the faster you drive this thing the more you review that it is fundamentally cute steel could you anytime need to trust
that the unibody will shield you in the event of a mishap I ensure I will be advantageous things to
say concerning this vehicle anyway we ought to get a more prominent measure of the horrendous things distant first the cooling is the most delicate that I've experienced in a state of the art vehicle ever I can put it on the full wrench and it simply seems to push out lukewarm air these seats are furthermore a piece of the most abnormal that I have any time sat in they are a stone hard foam material and while I'm sure it wears well they're genuinely difficult to change into any kind of pleasing position.
you furthermore don't really sit in the vehicle so much as on top of it the dashboard is
very easy to examine I construe anyway the wide range of various things is incredibly
basic there isn't even an entertainment region you get chat fair-minded and drive I hadn't the faintest idea about that was without a doubt, even possible your park is the handbrake
it's just as simple as that suspension on the wheeling is clear it's McPherson struts up
front multi-associate toward the back furthermore, the ride is well it's awful I accept that this is one of those vehicles where never will you neglect to recollect precisely how
unassuming that it is going over any kind of thumps is it's an endeavor you will not at any point know whether you're going to hammer your head forward or in turn around anyway
without a doubt, you're probably going to move around in your seat that doesn't mean you can't have some good times in the smaller and normal even the restricted body.
what's more, the extremely short wheelbase makes it very amusing to dash all through
restricted spaces in rush hour gridlock or in stopping parts I continually get myself
searching for extremely difficult situations that I can attempt to endure it's
sort of a tomfoolery minimal game to play with yourself it's back tire drive and back mounted
The engine, in any case, the elements aren't especially really great for floating I'll let you all see what it loolookedke when I attempted to do that obviously it's not outside the realm of possibilities that I have a lot of mechanical compassion likewise I was somewhat stressed
that it would flip over onto its head the other beneficial thing obviously about the short wheelbase and that's what a tight body is this thing can be stopped pretty much anyplace which makes it ideal for a spot like shanghai to comprehend the allure of the smaller than expected even for the Chinese market.
you first need to figure out the specialty that it fills we should note most importantly that somebody who's thinking about purchasing a smaller than usual ev likely isn't contrasting it with say a Toyota corolla because a Toyota corolla costs fourfold the amount of what might be said about a utilized vehicle you may say well a trade-in vehicle could possibly contend on price tag alone, however, putting a tag on a vehicle that can drive inside as far as possible costs as much as 10,000 bucks here in china the small scale ever since it's an electric vehicle while its tag is free well that is not an issue for country purchasers
but the mini EV still offers a compelling alternative to the electric scooters or gas motorcycles that those buyers usually purchase.
it's also a vast improvement over the even smaller electric vehicles that are favored by older rural consumers and also Jason torchinsky over at Jalopnik it's simply a good cheap solution
for Chinese buyers in almost every situation does that mean that this cheapskate is going to rush out and purchase a mini ev of his own no not quite while the mini ev certainly
has its charms I don't think I'm the ideal market for it.
I simply cannot be comfortable driving this car because of the safety issues and because it is overall kind of just uncomfortable to be inside of having said that for a small family for example whose other alternative is an electric scooter or a motorcycle or something like that I think it's a genuinely good choice alright and now it's available in Pakistan also.
thank you for reading
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