{"id":14291,"date":"2022-01-31T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14291"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:12:32","slug":"first-ride-taking-a-spin-in-the-eli-zero-not-a-car-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14291","title":{"rendered":"First ride: Taking a spin in the Eli ZERO not-a-car electric car"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not every day you get the chance to go for a few hot laps in a funky new electric mini-car. But when fate calls, you answer. And that\u2019s just what I did recently on a trip to Milan when the Eli team nervously let me borrow their only prototype vehicle. I wasn\u2019t quite sure what to expect from the Eli ZERO, but I came away excited about the future of these fun little runabouts.<\/p>\n

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The Eli ZERO is a small, lightweight four-wheeled electric vehicle. It\u2019s not technically a car because it fits into the definition of a quadricycle<\/a> in Europe. Essentially, that means it is car-shaped, but it\u2019s more like a cross between a motorcycle and an enclosed vehicle in terms of performance and safety. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as regulated as a true car, but it also doesn\u2019t cost as much as a true car.<\/p>\n

I received a two-minute briefing on how to operate the ZERO, though it was in Italian and that\u2019s not one of the two languages I claim to have a basic level of control over. But with enough finger-pointing and pantomiming between the two of us, I pretty much got the gist of the controls. Let\u2019s face it: it\u2019s not a complicated vehicle.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s about the bare minimum you\u2019d need to be a vehicle. It has four wheels, two seats, and two doors (three if you count the rear hatch). <\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple, but therein lies the beauty.<\/p>\n

While I didn\u2019t get the chance to take it out on open roads due to the minor fact that it wasn\u2019t technically street legal yet, I still did some parking lot loops and then drove it straight through the middle of a tradeshow expo to get it back to its booth before I could raise too much suspicion.<\/p>\n

You can check it out in the brief video below.<\/p>\n

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