MyCar electric city car tunes into environmental frequency

MyCar electric city car tunes into environmental frequency

If we were to ask you if you’d be interested in a brand new two-seater, styled by fabled Italian automotive design house Guigiaro, yet underpinned by a resolutely Japanese build quality, we’re pretty sure the answer would be a great big yes.

Add to the exciting equation that it would cost car buyers from as little as £8,995 and comes with a two year warranty, and we reckon you’d be demanding to know a deal more.

So we’ll save you the trouble of kidnap, by confirming that the new MyCar all-electric city car will have its dust sheets whipped clean off at this week’s British International Motor Show for what will be officially the first time, before it goes on UK sale in the Autumn.

Ahh. Didn’t we mention earlier that the MyCar is an electric car made by the NICE Car Company? Nevermind, you know now, and as ever, knowledge is power.

And that power you’ll feel is called electricity.

Doing away with fossil fuels in their planet-savaging entirety, the MyCar depends on electricity as its sole energy source, and according to which supplier you sign up to, owners can expect to stump up the equivalent of a measly 2p per mile. Or, in old money, one fifteenth compared to regular petrol or diesel.

Geared up for the current trials and tribulations of inner city driving, the MyCar has a range of around 40 miles before it needs a little electrical persuasion to carry on its good work. With a visible increase in on-street re-charging points across the UK, MyCar buyers shouldn’t have any problems on topping up should they fizzle out in the sprawling metropolis either.

Top speed is 40mph, whilst the typical time it takes to give the MyCar a full charge is said to be between six and eight hours. Or overnight to the sensible.

The MyCar comes in a choice of seven exterior colour schemes – so long as it’s predominantly green you’re looking for – and is so environmentally-compliant, it doesn’t even have a tailpipe jutting out of its cute derriere. Looking a bit like a futuristic version of the acquired taste that was the Suzuki X-90 from the late 1990s, the slightly more photogenic MyCar is more about substance than style.

Playing up to its greenness again, MyCar is made of fibreglass reinforced plastic on a steel tubular spaceframe with tubular roll-bar, yet has the disc brakes and independent front and rear suspension necessary for all manner of travel.

Standard kit and caboodle includes ‘leccy windows and mirrors, Radio/MP3 player, 14” alloys, remote central locking and digital display readings. Options run to a glass roof or removable fibreglass version, bigger rims and heated leather seats.

It also has storage space under the bonnet, in the boot and in the glove compartment, which makes the MyCar relatively practical too.

The unique ‘Work ‘n’ Play’ and ‘Drive ‘n’ Play’ are two MyCar innovations worth singing the praises of as well. The former is all about a forward-folding passenger seat with a laptop dock, while the latter caters for the geek in us all by exploiting Bluetooth, sat nav and advanced audio.


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kerry bradshaw
17:49 - 21st July 2008

We now have a new winner - the world´s most expensive golf cart! The carts around here go just as fast and travel just as far and cost about 1/8th as much. Sounds like you better live in a mighty small city with slow moving traffic.

Evert Geurtsen
15:56 - 22nd April 2009

Since publication NICE Car Company has been restructured. However, the MyCar has now arrived and is for sale at evstores at Park Lane in London (see www.evstores.co.uk).

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