There are More and More EVs in Paris !

All seen last saturday afternoon ...

Smart ED Convertible @ Porte de Saint Cloud 

Renault Zoe @ Olympia, close to Opera

Renault Twizy @ Opera

Citroen C-Zero @ Champs Elysées / Arc de Triomphe

My favorite remains our Nissan LEAF @ Lycée Janson de Sailly / Rue de la Pompe, Paris 16e

Special thanks to my son Clément for all these pictures taken while I was behind the wheel :-)

Packed Charging Station in Paris

As I was riding my Vectrix two days ago, I stopped by a charging station in 16th arrondissement/district, and it was unusually packed with EVs: Citoren Saxo Electric, Vectrix VX-1 (like mine), Renault Fluence

Vectrix using the original European 16A plug

Citroen Saxo Electrique : from the 1990's, these charging stations were deployed in Paris at the same time as this car came out around 1995 I think

Renault Fluence (unplugged !)

My Vectrix next to this other one

Autolib proof of regsitration (to charge on Autolib station)

Citroen lowers the C-Zero price tag in France at 16,900 EUR

Maybe because of Renault ZOE starting at 13,700 EUR, Citroen revealed a new price tag of 16,900 EUR for its only electic car, the C-Zero - a rebranded Mitsubishi i-MiEV in fact -

This is less than half the original price tag when it came to French market at 35,000 EUR ....

Check out this page dedicated to this model: http://www.citroen.fr/citroen-c-zero

More info on Citroen website:  http://www.carstore.citroen.fr/promotions/gamme

Source: Automobile Propre & Citroen

Electric Citroen used by La Poste in Saint Ouen

Second time I see this yellow car coming back from lunch; The mail man stops by at this public school
On the side you can see a Venturi logo ...

Citroen C-Zero

This white Citroen C-Zero was too fast ! That's the only shot I could get ...

And Twizy & Citroën Saxo Electric when I came back

I am happy to see more and more EVs, some new, some older

The Citroen Saxo Electric is a factory conversion from the late 1990's or early 2000, and it is plugged in

Here again, the Twizy owner thinks it's just a free parking spot: You have to plug in 

An i-MiEV / Citroen C-Zero passes by

On my way back to the office from lunch break

New Citroen C-Zero @ Citroen HQ Showroom

I went to Citroen Head Quaters Showroom after lunch on this sunny day, and found out that they have a new version of the C-Zero (Mitsubishi i-Miev) on display; They previously had a white one, but during six months, no EV at all...


Cute in red

Camel brown interior with stiched leather on the wheel and gear lever

Like a LEAF, this pens the charge port lid

Citroen concept cars shooting is over

Today, I went back Citroen Headquaters Showroom and the shooting that took place during the last two days was over; I could then enter and was able to take few pics of the Concept Cars :

It turns out that they are/will be hybrid / plugin hybrid cars, but who knows, maybe Citroen could make them fully electric one day ;-)

This aggressive looking one is called CITROEN SURVOLT :

More info here: http://www.citroen.fr/concept-car/#/concept-car/citroen-revolte/

And this purple round looking one is called CITROEN REVOLTE :

http://www.citroen.fr/concept-car/#/concept-car/citroen-revolte/

Citroen Headquaters Showroom closed / Shooting New Concept cars (EVs?)

Yesterday I couldn't get in Citroen headquaters' showroom because they were setting up cameras, projectros and all the shooting equipment to probably make a new video about 3 New Concept Cars (you can see them a bit in the very back on the left)

Maybe they could be electric ...