The TINY electric car with a BIG character | XEV YOYO UK FIRST REVIEW

Ladies and gentleman, this is the XEV YoYo Pro.

When, as a car reviewer, I was approached and asked if I wanted to do the UK’s first review of the YoYo, I was excited, but confused.

Excited because, I used to love my YoYo in the 90s, but confused because - why would you choose me to review a YoYo, and why are they back in fashion? Aren’t kids all playing Fifa these days and watching conspiracy videos on TikTok?

It turns out that they wanted me to review a car called the YoYo. And when I was told that it’s a tiny electric car that goes twice the speed of a Citroen Ami, I gave them my address and told them to deliver it as soon as humanly possible.

This is a fully electric car, and in the UK, it’s in the L7E category, meaning it’s limited to 56mph.

It was designed in Turin, Italy, by XEV, and is manufactured in Shanghai.

It weighs just 440kg, and in terms of power, it has a 15KW motor, or in old money, that’s an adorable 20hp.

It has a battery capacity of 10.4kwh, giving it around 95 miles of range, and it can be fully charged from 0-100% in just over 3 hours on a 7kw charger.

This means the car gives you around 23 miles of range for each £1 you spend on energy, which is astonishingly cheap.

On the inside, the YoYo feels like any modern car. It’s got air conditioning, AM/FM radio, electric windows and mirrors, a decent 10 inch touchscreen, panoramic roof, a luggage capacity of 180 litres and a funky colour scheme.

In terms of safety and security features, it’s got ABS, an alarm, central locking and keyless entry. And it comes with a three year warranty.

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[Electroheads]

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[ziggarillo]

It's rival is actually the Dacia Spring, which is cheaper at £14, 900, has rapid charging, more range. and can actually reach the motorway speed limit. It's also a 4 seater. Lease price is about £160 a month.

[sir-chat-a-lot]

I was expecting it to be more like £8-10k. I think it will struggle against eC3, Dacia Spring and the Seagull (if that does make it to the UK).

[adrianupnorth]

Like it - definitely like the faster speed if and when required. What puts me off the ami is the 28mph top speed. Always good to see you R.

[maxnewts]

I’d have said it was probably better priced at around £7.5k… but it’s definitely nice to see something so small…

[leejohnson]

If they could get the price down to 12k it would be great.

[riccardomarinoni]

In italy we have this xev but the quality is very bad, some parts rust near the windows, also when the battery is under 20% a tortoise appear and the velocity is reduced, also this xev is design for battery swap and in italy some people steal the battery pack very easy. The inside door handel somerimes broke and some people claim the brakes are bad. The dacia spring is better for the money

[simonpaine]

British Rail or whatever it is these days, that owns the station car parks, should offer cut price or free parking for these and promote the green benefits of the combination. Side benefit, the car parks will be able to hold nearly twice the amount of cars!

[craigstark]

This thing looks like a mash up for a Smart Fortwo (early 2000's) and a Twizzy and I like it!!

[georgemacdonald]

I have been riding my bike around town for years to get to work, shop, exercise, explore... I have the range/usage envelope of about 50 miles dialed in to perfection. It's definitely an adjustment to live like that, but definitely doable. Having a covered/dry vehicle that does not need physical effort and can carry more stuff seems like a dream come true from that perspective. Transitioning from an SUV or big vehicle would be culture shock, so might be an impediment. If you could change the business model so that there is no upfront cost, then it would be a lot more appealing. Perhaps a "club" model, where you join and get to use a wider variety of vehicles, I see boat clubs structured that way.

[Ads.D]

Really like this 👍
Unfortunately we just recently bought a 2nd hand Smart ForTwo EQ which does the same and was actually 2/3rds the cost, otherwise I'd have one 😁

[terryhayward]

This is the type of car that we really need for city driving. Still a bit to expensive for most people, but once battery tech changes and prices drop, it will be perfect.

[stevenbarrett]

Dacia Spring comes to mind so saying great to see more 'inexpensive' EVs coming to market

[kevinmcgrane]

It looks like fun and yes, it would make a great 2nd car. It strikes me as overpriced by about £6000.

[recumbentrocks]

Groovy baby! 😉 Nice review and you are right, it would make an excellent second car.

[jumpferjoyst]

Anything, literally anything that gets people out of SUVs is a move in the right direction. Decent looking and not a bad range and performance.

[BS]

I drove a 'Wuling Gameboy Kiwi ' recently and that looks like the same sort of little car - it was great fun.

[alexmckenna]

Loved the Waitrose-tribe send up.. Lovely little car. Should be popular..

[ciphermatrix]

Swappable on the fly battery stations could make fleets of these a great choice in cities if the cost was reasonable.

I would expect most of us would agree that moving towards swappable batteries across the entire electric car sector would be a massive step forward.

[simonpaine]

Rather than battery swapping, how about a home charger. Remove the battery and charge it inside your home, solving the problem for those who can't charge outside their houses.