A Domino's Pizza franchise in Swindon, UK, will now deliver its hot goods around town with a pair of Renault Twizy electric cars.
Besides showing the shop's environmental concerns, the Twizy will likely boost the image of the local pizzeria - at least until everybody is accustomed to its strange looks and it becomes yesterday's news…
"We are extremely happy with our Twizys as for us they are the perfect run around for delivering our piping hot pizzas quickly, responsibly and most importantly with minimal running costs," said James Swift, franchisee of Domino’s in Swindon. "They are quite a head turner too, so it creates a great buzz for us as we like to do things differently."
The French carmaker's 1+1 tandem-seat electric city car with scissor doors measures less than two and a half metres in length and one and a half metres in width. In base form, it makes do with a 13kW (17hp) electric motor with a limited top speed of around 50 mph (80km/h) fed by battery giving an official range of up to 60 miles (96 kilometers).
7 Comments:
Savvy idea!
It doesn't seem that the pizzas can fit in the car with the driver. Which makes this car a bit useless.
D'oh!
Click the link and read the story, the Twizy is a 1+1 ... ie driver in front, pizza's in back. It does seem like a 60 mile range might be too little for it to finish out a full night of deliveries though.
Well, look at the photo...he has to hold the pizzas out of the window and steer with one hand. Cold pizzas and unsafe driving....then again Dominos pizzas can only improve in taste, if he drops them on the road.
Agree! and the cost to run would be extremely cheap
My local pizzaria here in Copenhagen have to of those twizys.. no big news..
Excellent idea! Way to go fellows!
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