Toyota i-Road

The Toyota i-Road is a three-wheeled, two-seat light electric vehicle that Toyota showed as a concept at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2013. Two in-wheel motors of 2 kW each drive the front wheels, while the single rear wheel steers, as on a forklift. The front suspension uses a leaning system called Active Lean, so the cabin tilts into bends. The lithium-ion battery has a stated range of 50 km and takes about three hours to charge. Top speed is 60 km/h, although the models sold in Europe are limited to 45 km/h, which in Germany lets drivers from 15 or 16 years old use it with a class AM licence. The two seats sit one behind the other. Toyota judged the concept too expensive for series production, but the i-Road ran in car-sharing trials, among them 35 vehicles in Grenoble from 2014 to 2017, and in Toyota City and Tokyo under the Ha:mo project.