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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Richard230 on December 03, 2013, 10:27:35 AM

Title: EcCity electric scooter
Post by: Richard230 on December 03, 2013, 10:27:35 AM

Here is a report about a new French electric scooter that was shown at the Paris auto show:

http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/paris-salon-2013-french-electric-scooter-eccity.htm (http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/paris-salon-2013-french-electric-scooter-eccity.htm)

Title: Re: EcCity electric scooter
Post by: Gavin on December 03, 2013, 02:11:40 PM

Uggh....Scooters do not need to be ugly and boring...why are all "modern" scooter the same horrid shape.

They can be beautiful:

(http://www.unfinishedman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Vespa-946-Scooter-1-1024x796.jpg)

and they can be of a different shape:

(http://www.bikespace.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/yamaha-electric-bike.jpg)

heck, mini had some great looking concept electric scooters...

(http://ecolect.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Mini-E-Scooter-concept.jpg)

but I guess it is easier and cheaper to make a yugo scooter vs something beautiful.

Gavin

Title: Re: EcCity electric scooter
Post by: Shinysideup on December 03, 2013, 03:05:37 PM

Yeah, the back end looks OK, but the front brings to mind some kind of Teutonic helmet thing. Remember this is a country that brought you the Citroen designs!

The video on the company website shows another model that's better looking, but the sped-up video and hyper-synth drum-machine driving music seems a bit out of place for a scooter:

Electric City - Ventys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlGgo9CqkNs#)

I hope they do well: Paris traffic needs all the relief it can get.