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KERS-Enabled Electric Twizy and 265 HP Meganes Race Each Other – See Who Wins

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:41:32 +0000

We’ve been talking a lot about Kinetic Energy Recover Systems (KERS) lately, and even presented an actual implementation by Volvo. Now the French have put such a system into an electric vehicle called Twizy (about which we’ve been too talking a while ago) and managed to beat the cr*p out of two 265 horsepower, gas-drinking […]

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Renault Twizy F1 Concept Shows What F1 KERS Can Do in a Production Vehicle

Benji Jerew — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:22:09 +0000

We wouldn’t expect this to hit the road any time soon [or at all], but when F1 engineers get ahold of the Renault Twizy supercompact electric vehicle, the results are pretty impressive. Really, a lot of race technology finds its way into the vehicles we drive every day, and we’re not driving anywhere near the […]

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Renault Twizy Announced To Be The Cheapest Urban EV Yet!

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:06:48 +0000

The time for cheap electric cars has come. After last year's announcement of their Twizy, the two-seat urban electric vehicle at the Paris Auto Show (which we attended, btw), Renault is now announcing dirt cheap prices on the same EV that nobody ever thought of and could hardly match.

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