when the manufacturer feels the need to provide "0 to 20mph" times.

Rubbish

Even fuglier than the Renault Twaty. Looks like they out the seats in the wrong way round.

When I first looked at the pictures I thought it looked ugly, but the more I look the more I like.

If these are cheap enough then for someone like me who uses his car mainly for driving 40 minutes to and from work it would be ideal. Still have the bigger family car for outings and longer trips but for short journeys where the speed limit is usually 40mph max then these are perfect.

ugly can you make a car, seems auto designers know no bounds.

How exactly? The VLV doesn't look like a monumentally fugly POS for a start....

Even the brake? That doesn't sound safe. Whatever car you drive, stamping on the brake in an emergency is deeply ingrained in every motorist. A very hard habit to break.

It look like they have forgotten to pay their designers ? I could only come up with that sort of fugliness by vengeance against the company that would have not paid me for months.

Roll on the electric horse and buggy clones. More tecno from the 1840''s please.

Amish tech!

My moped had better acceleration. And a faster top speed.

And a further range.

And was easier to park.

And could be refuelled easily.

And cost less to purchase.

And it would only comfortably take 2 passengers, too. (Those folk in the back are paraplegics, I'm certain).

I certainly don't see any resemblance -- none whatsoever.

What kind of drugs are they feeding those designers?

I've seen firemen cutting corpses out of wreckage that look better than that!

The most horedously ugly vehicle ever concieved. Beter names might include the 'Arse', 'Pugly' or 'Fugly'.

You obviously have never ridden a motorcycle, The brake reflex is to grab the brake wherever it is. You'd be suprised at how quickly you can adapt to a new vehicle configuration.

Why are e-car manufacturers putting so much effort into making cars look "quirky" as opposed to making them look "good"?

Okay it's new technology and they've got the chance to make it look a bit futuristic but they seem to be imagining a future where everyone is blind or something.

And why are none of these cars ever bigger than a golf cart? Oh yeah because e-cars are crap.

IQ uses an old trick initially developed by the Daihatsu bit in Toyota group. In fact it is a largely Daihatsu design (same as Aygo is a largely PSV design).

The back seats are higher than the front and as a result you have a "sit on a chair" style posture in them, not "sprawled in a coach" posture like most cars of American and German origin. Not particularly comfortable for a long journey, but perfectly reasonable for in-town use. So you definitely do not need to reach for a sterile chainsaw. It definitely has more space for the rear passengers than let's say Jeep Cherokee or some other USA vehicles 3 times its size.

So 67 years down the road and they've managed to make their electric city car monumentally ugly and increased the range by a meagre 25 miles? Truly an achievement worthy of laudation.

Clam.

Car for Prawns...

I Dont think People bend like that...

i watched the video on facebook last night and it honestly looked like it'd be quicker to walk.

to heck with global waming, i'll stick with the supercharger in my cooper s thankyouverymuch and future generations be damned

If you're in Amish country and you see a guy with his arm up a horse's arse, he's the mechanic!

What a great design. I really like it.

It's fresh and new and definitely not a clone like so many cars these days.

And to those who don't like it. Fine. Beauty's definitely in the eye of the beholder.

That is absolutely and undeniably the worst car design that has ever been thought of.

I have nothing further to say on this matter.

@ AC

Isn't that a daft question? surely only 'designers' could come up with something so...so... llewelyn-Bowen-esq

Problem is they ARE paying designers.. if you ask me they should asking 'do they blend?'

...like car "designers" are trying to out-do each other these days. If this thing were the only car one could buy, I'd buy a bicycle. Cheaper, does not need electricity, and I wouldn't look like a complete idiot for having bought it. And the top speed would be somewhat comparable.

Backswept windshields and suicide doors... and the rear seats are clearly ridiculous in this thing. If I were Peugeot, I would not only not pay the designers of this... thing, I'd fire them outright and demand damages.

So what’s the range and what’s the charge time?

I have been campaigning for free parking for motor bikes in Westminster since they started their experiment over a year ago see NoToBikeParkingFees.com. One of the arguments against just providing enough parking for bikes was that there is too much pressure on kerb side space in Westminster, yet both Westminster council and Boris Johnson want to introduce more electric vehicle’s. Both see the political mileage in this and both want to get into the personal vehicle market, no doubt for the money to be made. The electric car is a joke when it comes to recharging though and needs to be recharged at the side of the road to make it viable so you need charge points which is fine until more people change to electric and every car space needs a charge point! The only viable alternative to petrol is a source of power that can use the existing petrol stations.

There are a lot of alternatives but so far the best idea I have seen is compressed air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8aZVLpf-c . Compressed air sounds odd until you realise that a car engine is an internal combustion engine that just compresses the air in the cylinder. This system uses compressed air which can be compressed at the petrol station using electricity; you have to get power from somewhere. Charge times as shown in the video 3 minuets, so time to go and pay for the compressor and electricity, as you would for petrol. The only question is the type of engine. Lastly the compressed air cylinder technology exists but you would need to come up with a standard fill connection.

Well that’s put the would to rights mines a pint.

Looks like cartoon car thats trying to go fast.

VLV? Vuh-ll-vuh? Well, I guess you'd have men clamouring to get inside it...

oh, wait- the new one's the BB1. With a "steering yoke". Anyone who's watched Knight Rider know's that's a cumbersome idea. *grumbles about change*

For people wondering how the rear passengers have squeezed their legs in, the answer is that they are straddling the front seats. Pics via the link below. You will also notice they only show the people using lap-belts.

http://www.worldcarfans.com/109091421728/peugeot-bb1-concept-revealed--classic-scooter-name-revived/lowphotos#26

Paris because of the straddling.

Why are they given such free reign these days? - is the car industry trying to kill the electric car by making them undesirable? Why do all these electric cars have to look weird? (with a few notable exceptions of course)

If I was designing an electric car, I would make it function well first before trying to make it look good. It's a bit like architects coming up with the design then asking the engineers to make it however complex and impractical it is.

what about when it has four people in it? even milk floats are faster then this.

Why? WHY!?

Make the damn thing look like a Smart, maybe, or something like that. Anything is better looking than this.

trying compressing air sometime & then letting it escape quickly. The pump heats up very quickly when compressing & the air freezes (forming ice) when uncompressing. Welcome to thermodynamics, (or check out wikipedia article on compress air engines).

This makes compressed air cars less efficient and more difficult than you might think.

Batteries + electric motors still have the most potential for a replacement for petrol/diesel ICE motor-vehicles, simply because the huge investment in many industries (a better battery would be huge for transport, laptops, phones, you name it) and they just don't have the same mechanical issues.

there's a simple reason - these are the kinds of car the designers have always wanted to make! the jump to a new technology has just given them an excuse.

I take it that you posted that while scrabbling round on the floor looking for your contact lenses?