When we first heard that French automaker Renault was producing a tiny, two-seat electric car with a top speed of 52mph called the Twizy, we have to admit to laughing. A lot. But after driving a ...

The Twizy is one of the best students in the EV class and, for this chapter, it has managed to get an A+, mainly thanks to the fact that it has shown the world that electric cars can look ...

In San Francisco, driving a bright-red tandem two-seat electric Renault Twizy gets you noticed--by everyone from sweet little old ladies to skate punks. Even on Castro Street. On Halloween. We spent a ...

A quadricycle is not a car. It's still got four wheels, in some cases a roof, and can be propelled down the road under its own steam. But it is not a car. The Renault Twizy is a quadricycle, a really ...

It recently came out that Porsche mulled a return to Formula One but chose a return to Le Mans instead, citing F1 technology’s lack of relevance to its road cars. Well Porsche, take this: the Twizy ...

This ain't your daddy's Tesla. In fact, the Renault Twizy is arguably the antithesis of the Model S: eye-catching where the Tesla is discreet; cheap where the electric sedan is expensive. Intended for ...

When Renault showed the two-seat Twizy electric city car at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, we never expected to see it haul firefighters – meter maids, maybe, but not firefighters. The vehicle is ...

Developing self-driving cars is big business. Some of the largest automakers and tech companies are involved, testing fleets of cars with the support of sizable engineering staffs. But U.K.-based ...

Renault has applied the state-of-the-art kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) used in its Formula One drivelines to the pint-sized Twizy electric car. The result? A new zero-emission concept whose ...

Renault is now taking online reservations for its Twizy two-seater all-electric micro car ahead of its launch in Europe later this year. The announcement made at the Barcelona Motor Show relates to ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

"Forget everything you knew about urban transportation, if you want to get around town in a way that can truly be described as 'urban mobility', you'll have to use something that was created from the ...