unkel wrote: » Yep very cool. We talked about it recently here:Linky The article mentions a Europe price of USD13.6k which is EUR11.9k. If we got the full Irish EUR5k subsidy off that, it would be great value for money
unkel wrote: » I had no idea about the staggered subsidy setup, thanks for sharing that!
boombang wrote: » I saw these at Geneva last year. They were cute. Maybe the models they had on display were preproduction prototypes, but they were pretty shoddily built. Which is a shame as I badly wanted to like it.
Old thread but a new picture from NI. I am not sure if the 2018 pricing here is accurate.
Funky looking but at 24K, it is on the expensive side for a small car.
You're definitely paying the novelty tax
To be fair, I was cycling through Dublin yesterday and watching an Aygo zipping through traffic where SUVs couldn't get through, so there's some value in it
Said Aygo also nearly pancaked me in the cycle lane, so I would have appreciated if it was a bit smaller as well
Over double the stated price in 2018… Not a great result
It’s unquestionably good looking but also unquestionably over priced - considering someone got a 2023 VW E Up on another thread for 15k the other day, it’s very hard to justify such a spend - back streets of Rome or Paris yeah lovely -would prefer to see some very practical electric mini vans made by Fiat and Citroen run around our city streets and less of the Ford transits etc
It was never going to hit the market at that price here. Even then, it was dreamer territory. It is a shame though as I think it would sell reasonably well at about 12 to 15k but at 24k and over, forget it.
That's the top spec version, you can get a base spec for €18k
Dunno what the story is with L6e vehicles here and road tax. I'm going to guess they're in the same grey area as E-scooters
I would not risk it without tax & insurance & driving licence. When scooters were legalised this would not be covered.
https://www.cyclingelectric.com/news/ireland-e-scooters-legal-and-rule-out-insurance-on-e-bikes
Yeah it looks like they're licensed as light quad bikes, so you'd need an AM license
Don't think they're liable for VRT but would pay €35 road tax, plus insurance
I do not know where you got the €35 road tax from it's certainly not here in Ireland anyway as the cheapest tax is €120 for any vehicle. Maybe you were thinking of quarterly payments.
It would be taxed as a motorbike surely?
I'm talking about the Lite version to be clear, not the higher powered one which is classed as a car
@the_amazing_raisin is right. Microcars like these (and the Ami, Twizzy, etc.) are quadricycles with the same rate of motor tax as motor cycles. For electric ones it is just €35 per year
I doubt a Twizzy or an Ami could be taxed for €35 here in Ireland. That rate is for things like this below and e-scooters,
https://cartourismo.ie/cars/events/salon-prive-chelsea-2024/
It was at the recent Salon Privé in London.
Apparently yes, it can.
As far as the Department of Transport is concerned, such vehicles as the Ami and Twizy fall into the same Category A as motorbikes, and the department further notes that because the Ami has a top speed of 45km/h, you’re not allowed to drive it on motorways
Nothing there about reduced tax. The rest of the article is behind a paywall. Could you copy and paste it? Thanks.
