Living With The UK’s CHEAPEST New Car

Welcome to the

cheapest

car you can buy in the UK today. This gorgeous one is the new do good zero that certainly sounds like something Donald Trump would call Greta Tunberg. Let's ignore the name because the important thing is that it is so affordable. Does this sound like a starting price of $995? It's a car less than 6 grand here in East London. You'll regularly see people riding around on electric bikes that cost more, so of course the next question is whether it's rubbish, in the name of sensible journalism. I've been driving around London daily with this car for the last few days and now I have the answer.

Welcome to the Philadelphia Loading Show Like It's Fully Loaded. You'll love how fun everything electric is. Expos around the world. Next up is London and Harriet, remember. energy and transportation professionals Go free on the first day, so what the hell is this thing that does good above? Arc Motors. They have recently had a small rebrand. It's a new British microcar company founded around the same premise that well, every other microcar company says the modern car has become unnecessarily large, heavy and excessive given that in the UK the average journey is 20 miles Given that in the UK the average journey occurs at 17 and a bit miles per hour these two large tonnes of tanks were circulating or a bit too much, in the opinion of doing well, it is more suitable for the British traveller, it is quite confusing at the At first glance, it looks like a child's drawing of a car, but this is all in the name of Maximum Cabin Space, of course, and it's pretty impressive, we'll get to that in a moment.

By the way, this monocoque aluminum ooh, highly recyclable aluminum, in fact 75% of all aluminum ever made is still used today. That's pretty good and, in theory, this monocoque will allow for greater crash safety, improved stability and superior handling. Moreover, in one moment you get three powerful horsepower from the rear engine, which, of course, is enough in a car that weighs. half a ton or less and it is designed entirely for a city and then the battery is 4.8 kWh good for 50 or so miles of urban Rage which, as they say on their website, is more than an electric Ferrari, so there it is you cancel Loading your Ferrari order happens right here.

It's a bit of an old-fashioned plug that you'd expect to see in AC. There is an adapter you can get for the car, but the idea to do it right is that you simply charge it using a three-pin household cable. Plug in because of course the battery is so small that doing so doesn't take long. A full charge, they say, will cost you about a pound. By the way, I will say that at the moment I am missing the removable battery. silence s04 pack because it's nice to be able to take the battery to the kitchen instead of having to drive the whole car to charge it on the road, then on the two good zeros, definitely a micro car with all the microarry traits we have.

Knowledge and love are very present and correct. Top speed 28 mph 3 horsepower. 50 m electrical range. It's worth noting that this is an L6, so it's actually the smallest and slowest category of microcars. This is the category in which if you are French you are allowed. to drive from the age of 7, yeah people look at us, we're pretty flashy today, we have a cool camera setup that cameraman Louie paid a buddy with a welder to build him, combine that with this car and, um , people look, it's fun, it's fun to be in such a small 16m per hour car, it feels insanely fast in this and the road feels so big that you can position yourself to turn like you would if you wanted to kiss the Apex going around Silverstone in a race.

This is the thing about small cars: you'll actually get to your destination a little faster because you'll spend a little less time waiting to get through a gap that's not yet big enough to spend less time doing nine-point turns because you'll only being able to zoom in on one this is a car suitable for the size of the roads we have at our disposal here in inner London of doing good zero lots to discuss let's start with the good things, can we be the visibility? The view second For none of the best cars I've ever sat in in the center driving position, there are huge amounts of glass everywhere, it's like I'm piloting a fighter jet or driving a McLaren F1 and from that What microcars are all about, right?

I don't have meters of metal in all directions that's the end of the car that's the end of the car it's not going to be difficult to park it would be practically impossible to hit someone even if I tried I think I'd just bounce Off of them, I love this driving position center and then you notice that there is no trunk lid, there is no way to open the car from the back from the outside, that's because there is no trunk, instead, behind me, here is essentially a padded rear shelf and it It can be a seat for a rear occupant or it can simply be a very large shelf for your shopping bags.

I'm looking at that and I'm thinking it might actually be quite spacious, in fact, Lou just jump in with your friend, let's go and you. look these nice big doors serve both the front and the back you're there comfortably you sit astride me L you straddle me that's my driving position I'll tell you which one has headroom has legroom is a happy kid so for me it's the standout feature of the zero's interior, the space for both the driver and rear occupant and the incredible view you get, the slightly ungainly exterior, eh, it makes a lot more sense once you you sit here, this is the reward of that weird shape, huge amounts of glass and a really spacious interior, um, and then let me walk you around the dashboard real quick, there are a lot of buttons that I don't understand what they do, this is the F, the D, this one says AC. but it doesn't do anything this one says PTC PTC Andy but it doesn't do anything I have no idea this switch here is completely unmarked no idea imagine that somewhere in the Midlands someone's bedroom light is going on and off and it's becoming really annoying for them uh this stereo is absolutely baffling to me the car claims to have USB connectivity and Bluetooth connectivity but it looks like it's from a 1970s Rover and this brings me to the overall less good of the do good zero , it feels a bit like a bit of a hastily put together parts twist job, which is probably exactly what it is and what I mean by this is that I can still see residue from the glue used to stick this Union Jack badge onto any actual badge who is behind the wheel. all the wiring that connects the gas and brake pedals to the car and I could easily snag one of those wires with my toe and disconnect one if I wasn't careful.

I can see the screw used to secure this piece of trim to the door pocket because there's no kind of soft material covering it, these air conditioning vents honestly feel like they're going to fall off in my hands. If I'm not very careful with them. Let's be clear, it is the

cheapest

car in the world. United Kingdom I'm not expecting the Rolls-Royce finish but honestly this looks like a very early prototype. Here's something they don't teach you in driving lessons. Small cars take you faster. Why are shortcuts joining us next week? Where we do other illegal things in front of the camera.

In the name of content next week we will tip. I think what we have here, if we're honest, is a gwiz for the Modern Age and what I mean by that is think of the original G whz, which is a car with One. Singular purpose of getting you from A to B using energy electric and as little as possible without bells or whistles not a single bell and this feels very similar the good? Zero has the design and charm of the microlino it doesn't have the solar power of the Solar Squad no, it has the innovative design and convenience factor of the silent S, so4 no, it's as fun to drive as the Carver, no, but it's cheap, It costs £6,000 if you came here looking for bells and whistles.

You're barking up the wrong tree, and frankly, I think it serves its extremely simple purpose quite well. It has some suspension. It stands up well enough. The brake pedal works. The steering wheel appears to be attached to the front wheels. It's got gauges and a heater and roof, you can't reasonably ask for much more than that, yeah this seems like about £6,000 worth of a car, not much more to say, I'm fine, I'm not too close to the curb, that okay, okay, this is good. Also, look for two doors, one on each side, fancy, so that's no use, so what do we consider to be the cheapest car you can buy?

A bit rubbish, yes of course, compared to basically any other car, but compared to an electric bike. very good, warmer, safer, and I think that's how you have to look at this vehicle, it costs £6,000, it's £6,000. Personally, if I had six thousand dollars to spend on an electric vehicle to get around London, I would absolutely prefer to buy an Alto. end up with the electric bike, but maybe your use case is different to mine and if you're looking for a way to take two people around London in an electric vehicle with a bit of Crash frame and a roof and a heater then just don't there is a cheaper way to do it.

Do it, no frills, no frills, but it will get you there and just a few words about why we need more cars like this in general. That's why this is the Mercedes eqs SUV, without a doubt, it is the largest EV brand. but it is perfectly common to see cars like this in traffic jams in London with a person at the wheel and they make the roads more dangerous they make the pavements more dangerous they make the traffic worse they make everything worse they don't belong in our city they need to be legislated out of our cities and Vehicles like this should be encouraged, especially through ride sharing schemes, anyway that's my TED talk, thanks for coming.

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