Citroën to upgrade the Ami small BEV

Citroën is reportedly testing a further development of the small electric car Ami, which is capable of reaching a top speed of 80 kph. This apparently involves not only a more powerful drive system as well as a larger battery.

So far, the Citroën Ami and the Opel/Vauxhall offshoot Rocks-e are only available as L6e vehicles with 6 kW of power and 45 km/h top speed. This also applies to the recently introduced Fiat variant Topolino. According to information from the French portal L’Argus, Citroën is using the drive of the Opel Rocks e-Xtreme for the faster version of the Ami, which is supposed to deliver 12 kW continuous and 25 kW peak power. Also new is the battery with 10 kWh capacity in the Opel Rocks e-Xtreme, compared to 5.5 kWh in the standard model.

The Opel Rocks e-xtreme is a one-of-a-kind car resulting from a design competition. The winner was the design by Lukas Wenzhöfer, who had drawn a sportier version of the Rocks-e with an externally mounted roll cage and rear wing. Later, Opel converted the design, as announced, into a one-off and reproduced it. At the time, however, Opel had kept silent about the technical changes to the drive system.

Should Citroën decide to implement the faster version of the Ami, it would compete with L7e battery-electric vehicles such as the Microlino, the Twizy successor Mobilize Duo, the Silence S04 and the XEV Yoyo.

largus.fr (in French)