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we are in the middle of Midtown they could not have picked a busier place to test this thing out Madison Square Gardens right there pen stations over here and this is the Nissan new mobility concept if it looks familiar it's basically the same exact thing as the Renault Twizy which has been around for a while in Europe and Nissan took it rebadged it a bit broad to the States made some modifications and now they're testing it out here in the United States they've only got about a dozen or so here ten of them are part of a pilot program in San Francisco where people can rent them and share them but they're really just trying to figure out how it might work here in the States so we just turned on to eight that we're gonna go up towards Times Square a bit yeah so this is all electric it'll get you about 40 miles on the charge right now it takes about three to four hours to recharge the whole thing off of your standard evie charging port and in the US its speed limited to 25 miles an hour in Europe this same thing can get up above 50 or so miles an hour which is definitely a little sketchier it's similar in some ways to the our Komodo SRK which we got to ride bashes CES obviously the big difference is this is four wheels that was three but you've got the same open air construction another big windshield so you can see up in front of you this isn't going to get you around with a hundred miles of range or 200 miles range in the suburbs but in the city it could get you around I don't know if you'd want this in New York City but once you miss all the buses and stuff actually not that bad the ride it is not the smoothest there is some interesting-looking suspension on all four wheels but I just said some potholes back there that made me think about my lunch from a couple hours before now this is all part of what Nissan calls the future lab something's been around for a couple years and they're basically studying big urban environments whether that's sort of big like San Francisco we're really big like New York and trying to figure out how people get around how that's changing from how we've always known people get around and this is basically the first project that they've employed based on their findings and so like I said there's ten in San Francisco right now in a partnership with a program called scoot and people are able to join up with scoot and rent one of these things and it's point-to-point a lot like bike sharing you grab one drop it off somewhere else throw it back in a charger so to see more weird stuff like this and more traditional cars and all this stuff in the New York Auto Show head to the verge comm head to youtube.com slash The Verge and click Subscribe I almost just hit a Pitt pigeon thanks for watching