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100% electric, very affordable, without a license … Here is the 2 CV of the 21st century

Designed for the city, accessible from 14 years old, for 20 euros per month, rechargeable in three hours and delivered to your health home! The Citroën Ami has all the ingredients to democratize the electric car like never before.

Citroën has just struck a big blow withFriend, a car designed to allow everyone to enjoy the electric urban mobility. This very small, extremely compact city car (2.41m long) is a standard version of the Ami One concept presented just one year ago at the Geneva Motor Show (Switzerland).

This electric car is accessible to everyone, with or without a driving license from 14 years old (in France, with AM license for drivers born from 1988). It can accommodate two people. It has a autonomy relatively small, around 70 km, but can be fully charged in three hours on any household outlet.

The Citroën Ami can be bought or rented by the year, month, day, hour and even by the minute. © Citroën

The Citroën Ami will be sold at ehealth or at ehealth

Citroën indicates that the Friend will be configurable and sold via a dedicated site but also … at ehealth or at ehealth's. Unique fact, it will be delivered directly to the buyer's health home. It will be available for 6,990 euros (excluding ecological bonus), but also for just 19.99 euros per month in long-term rental duration (after an initial contribution of 3,544 euros).

The opening of orders is scheduled for 30 March 2020 in France. The first deliveries are scheduled for the summer while a car-sharing solution (Free2Move) will be launched in the spring in Paris. By the end of the year, the Friend should be available in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Germany.

Note that Citroën will not be present this year at the Geneva Motor Show, which will open its doors Thursday March 5, 2020, hence the offbeat presentation of this new model.

Citroën Ami One: the 2 CV reinvented

Article by Marc Zaffagni, the 02/20/2019

Citroën has lifted the veil on its concept of electric micro-car without a license for urban use whose popular spirit claims the mythical 2 CV.

What could 2 CV look like in the era of electric car and a mobility that wants to be more virtuous? A daring exercise to which Citroën delivered and which resulted in the Friend One Concept. As its name suggests, it is therefore a concept car that will be exhibited at the Geneva auto show next month. To present the Friend One, Citroën does not speak of an electric car but of a " object of urban mobility ".

Beyond this very trendy discourse, it is indeed a electric micro car two-seater measuring 2.50 m long, 1.50 m wide and 1.50 high for 425 kg. Driving without a license from 16 years old, the Friend One Concept can run at 45 km / h, has a range of 100 km and recharges in two hours. Its very basic design hides a deep reflection on the simplicity of design which is reminiscent of that of the good old "Deudeuche".

This is how Citroën imagines the use of the Friend One Concept. © Citroën

Symmetrical design

The Friend One Concept is completely symmetrical. Most of its body parts are identical and simply mounted in a different direction. So it is with the doors, antagonist driver's side and classic passenger side, fenders, rocker panels, bumpers, mirrors, rear and front lights. The key is faster, cheaper assembly and easier maintenance. The result gives a style cubic supposed to evoke robustness and maneuverability for urban driving.

Citroën has designed different consumption models for the Ami One, ranging from 5 minutes to 5 hours of use. It can be done through a car-sharing service, from 5 days to 5 months for short-term rental systems, or 5 years through a long-term rental which will include the battery, the maintenance and parking. The brand with rafters even goes so far as to consider an Ami One vending machine that would provide the information and allow the electric car to be rented directly. Citroën has not yet indicated a timetable for the possible commercialization of a derivative of this concept.

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