Renault Twizy

The Renault Twizy is a two-seat electric microcar designed and sold by Renault. In Europe it is classed as a light or heavy quadricycle depending on its output, 4 kW for the Twizy 45 or 13 kW for the Twizy 80, the numbers reflecting the top speed in km per hour. The design came from Françoise Leboinne and Luciano Bove and debuted as a concept at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, and it reached the French market in March 2012. The car is about 2.32 metres long, 1.19 metres wide and 1.46 metres high, and its battery pack was leased for a monthly fee rather than included in the price until direct purchase began in the United Kingdom in 2020. It was built first in Valladolid, Spain, and from March 2019 in Busan, South Korea. It was Europe's top-selling plug-in electric vehicle in 2012 and global sales reached 29,118 by the end of 2019. In July 2023 Renault announced production would end that September in favour of the Mobilize Duo.