The Toyota iQ EV has limited range and limited availability Video
The Toyota iQ EV has limited range and limited availability Video Transcript
I'm Wayne Cunningham with CNET. Here at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. Right here is the Toyota iQ EV. In the US we've seen the Scion iQ with a gas engine. This is basically the same idea except with an electric powertrain. Toyota only puts 12-kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery pack into this car. So that means it only gets 50 miles of range on a charge. But then again, it also charges up to full in about 3 to 4 hours. It's not a fast car either. Zero to sixty is about 14 seconds, and--
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