Twizy

Little car, little car-sharing program – for now.

If you've been slacking on your doctor-recommended dose of electronic beats and French weirdness, Renault has you covered. The company has turned out a new video for its Twizy pod car featuring a gaggle of youth prowling Parisian streets in the early hours of the morning. The fleet of bizarre-looking Twizy EVs descend on the Eiffel Tower for a quick plug-in just in time for the famous land

Renault's Twizy city electric vehicle went on sale in UK showrooms Friday, and the French automaker saying a less-powerful version will be available for sale starting next January.

If anyone wondered what right-hand-drive donuts in a really light electric-vehicle looked like, we all may soon find out.

Looking a little bit like a car dealership from Inception, the new "Plug Into The Positive Energy" exhibit at the L'Atelier Renault stage on the Champs Elysées puts a vertical focus on the all-electric Renault Twizy. The quirky little EV has been used as decoration before,

Despite three months of downward-trending Leaf sales, Nissan is still bullish on rolling out more electric vehicles. We know that Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has said he wants to bring at least three and more likely four Nissan EVs to market in the U.S. in the next few years. Automotive News has an article about what these four vehicles may be. Actua

It's not often that an automaker says this about its own car: "It looks like a toy and drives like a toy." Sure, Renault follows this up with, "but it isn't a toy," but by that point the message has been delivered: the all-electric Renault Twizy is not your usual vehicle.

The styling of the funky all-electric Renault Twizy Z.E. has inspired artist Jean-Luc Moulène to create a just-as-funky contemporary sculpture.

More details, albeit of the UK-only flavor, have emerged on the upcoming trio of Renault Twizy electric two-seaters.

Nissan's Renault Twizy-based New Mobility Concept – an urban electric vehicle revealed back in November of 2010 – is just about ready to roam the roads in Japan.

Marc Cameron and Paul "Moose" Curtis, are an artistic twosome that are exceedingly skilled at turning dirt, grime and muck into art. In fact, the pair have teamed up to create our favorite kind of art – the sort that features automobiles as the subject. Starting with a spot on a dirt-covered wall in Munich, Moose and Cameron remove the buildup of gunk in various layers leaving behind their desired image.

World-famous DJ David Guetta is quite the deal maker. In his latest video, for his hit song "Where Them Girls At," he arranged to advertise an Ice Watch wristwatch, a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone and – oddly – a quirky Renault Twizy Z.E.

When the Twizy EV goes on sale in March of next year, it will be one of the cheapest electric vehicles available for sale in Europe, starting at just €6,990 (that's only $10,400 U.S. at today's exchange rate). True, that price doesn't include the battery pack, but that can be leased for just €45 ($67) a month. The diminutive EV sits somewhere in-between a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) and a full-fledged, highway-capable machine. W

2011 Renault Twizy – Click above for high-res image gallery

Renault Twizy – Click above for high-res image gallery