Toyota is making its smallest electric car available to a wider audience. We are talking about the Toyota C+ Pod, a compact electric city car that is now also available to consumers.
Almost exactly a year ago, Toyota pulled the curtain on the C+ Pod in Japan. The C+ Pod is a tiny electric two-seater that, with a length of 2.49 meters, is one centimeter shorter than the Smart City-Coupé from 1998. However, the C+ Pod is also 20 centimeters narrower than the original Smart and that gives a nice picture of how small Toyota’s electric city car is. The C+ Pod was initially only available in Japan for local governments and business users, but is now available to everyone and from now on also for sale.
Toyota C+ Pod
The Toyota C+ Pod has a starting price of €12,678 in Japan. That amount is for basic version X. The richer dressed G changes owner from converted €13,180. Regardless of the version chosen, you get an electric city friend that has a 13 hp and 56 Nm strong electric motor and a 9.06 kWh battery pack. The electric range is 150 kilometers according to Toyota. The top speed of the rear-wheel drive C+ Pod is 60 km/h. The highway did not measure the little one.
Toyota C+ Pod
As far as safety systems go, the C+ Pod benefits from things like pedestrian and cyclist detection as well as front and rear parking sensors. The C+ Pod is not coming to Europe for the time being. Incidentally, the C+ Pod is the production version of the Ultra Compact BEV concept from 2019.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl