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Car Tech - The Scoot Quad: This Twizy puts the city in reach

2015-11-09
whether you live in San Francisco or just coming for your for a visit let's face it traffic is bad and parking is the worst but not for me because I am in the scoot Co on that's right I'm in my soup and my sourdough bread bowl at the same time because I'm able to get along and this all electric get about town I can park easy and when I'm done I just give it back because it's a rental baby so what this is is a rebadged Renault Twizy it's coming from Nissan as a new mobility concept and it is being leased as a scoop quad here in San Francisco I've got a top speed of 25 miles an hour which means sometimes I wish it was faster a range of 40 miles it takes three and a half hours to charge and you can charge it via a regular wall outlet although it is compatible with the super high flux capacitor charging that you use for your Tesla and whatnot so up front and in the rear I've got coil over shocks can you believe it and teeny tiny little control arms it's the funniest thing I've ever seen but what's great is that it parks super easy and the turning radius is amazing I've got 17 walking horsepower and 42 amazing pound-feet of torque that's right it's small but it seems full the hills just fine so why my speed is governed to 25 miles an hour I'm on a road right now that speed limit is 30 miles an hour people are passing me left and right but there's nothing really I can do about it so you are limited to your speed and that might make you feel like you're going dangerously slow maybe it's just that these people are going dangerously fast now as you'll see here there is no window so be sure to wear your jacket but check it out go wing doors it's Superman Eve ice this is a two-person vehicle so let me so I guess I'm not wearing a skirt in this cuz this is right in my Flex super comfortable so you will notice there is no key you turn this guy on and off from the app alright so the beeping says that it's all connecting so I turn this little knob here to the one position I wait for my display to turn on I take off my handbrake I go to the to put this baby and drive and I'm good to go of course you do have some safety features here I've got an air bag in the front I've got a four-point harness for the front seat because it's a race car right plus a three-point harness in the back I got disc brakes on all four wheels and those 13 inch wheels are wrapped in continental conte contact tires so if you're coming to San Francisco you can rent one of these babies 80 bucks for the full day and 40 bucks for the night
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