Nice to see Citroën returning to their 2CV simplistic roots! So many lightweight ideas.... brilliant design , with fresh thinking. 100% sure that you wouldn't see this fresh thinking on a German brand!
Nice to see that one year on, Citroen is still promoting oli to the press and the public as a future vision of how cars can be made more environmentally friendly and efficient yet desireable. I was not as happy for the editing of this video. It had awkward silences between segments. The video does not flow as well as your previous Oli video. Also your voiceover audio sounds like it was recorded in your bedroom closet. But please carry on.
Citroen is on the right track here. Electric driving and driving in general in the future is not who will make the fastest supercar but who will make the safest and more practical one. Given the various restrictions coming with electricity, like difficulty in storing energy, or weight, etc we do need to limit (somewhat) top speed but add all sorts of technology including autonomous driving. And no more accidents! Oli has nailed it, everything but the vertical windscreen. But the idea is correct: protect the interior from overheating. Yes we definitely need more ideas like these! Good job Citroen
Citroen do seem to be considering a lot of the issues regarding sustainability and it'll be good seeing these coming through into production. The phone idea is interesting but care is required to ensure nothing essential relies on that - you don't want to be stranded because you've lost your phone or had it stolen.
Oh my gosh, Ginny...! You made me wait SO long to hear the most important aspect of the Oli that I desperately hoped will make it to production- those incredibly light, strong and fully recyclable body panels... PHEW...! Lightness = efficiency = job done... 👍
I'd like them to produce the Oli. I keep wanting an Ami's simplicity and size but with the practicality to be your only car (at least 3 seats, motorway capable, reasonable range).
@Be Low Below there are a few cars that fit the size and range bill like a Renault zoe but I wouldn't call them simple. If the air conditioning ever breaks I've heard that costs half as much as the car to fix. The VW E-up is close if you can find one.
Yes. We desperately need some kind of kei class car for EVs. Something that's capable of motorway driving but without all the modern safety stuff. There's loads of cheap (£5000) electric cars in China that should be available in Europe. We're 7 years away from an IC ban and we've got EVs that the average person can barely afford as a first car, let alone a second car.
Brilliant assessment of where the whole car industry should be heading- BACK about 50 years. The future was my Renault4L weight 800kg, had fixed windows (sliding), made of very thin steel, but it may have well been that thick cardboard stuff you were showing. It had a tiny, very economical engine, and would do about 70mph too, (no car in the world needs to travel faster, even today). It had retread tyres, no internal gadgets, steel wheels, no radio/player - use a portable cassette recorder put on the under-dash shelf. It had an incredibly flexible interior- seats out in 10 mins, loads of internal space, vertical windscreen, very thin seats, including a front bench seat. It lasted for years and years due to its simplicity. I changed the clutch with a bunch of AF spanners and a Haynes manual in a spare weekend. It went everywhere, could hold 4 people, plus luggage, and you could wash out the interior due to rubber mats. Parts? Get them from the breakers yard, easy to fit. The future Citroen Oli is a 50-year-old Renault 4, and the day it comes back will be a day too long away. Everything in the Oli was done by Renault, or to be fair, Citroen- the 2CV also. Let's get rid of these vast, planet-killing dangerous SUV tanks and get back into real cars that you drove not piloted. Great video and a heart-stirring moment (notwithstanding Ginny).
How would you clean the honeycomb seat backs? Would they have some kind of cover? How do you keep the phone slot clean? Good optimistic video thank You.
I for one won't be sorry to see the demise of the infotainment screen, any chance it will take (dangerous) lane assist with it? I really want an Oli, if I get one it would be my 5th Citroen.
Tough choice between this and a Canoo, and I think a mainstream shift to slower speed limits would be a reasonable tradeoff for useful engineering and design.
Citroen brought out the Cactus with the airbumps.. Quite like the concept car and only 1,000 kgs. It heralded the weight saving philosophy of the 2CV6 at 585 kgs. Combined they weight of a Cactus + 2CV6 is 150 kgs less than the lightest Tesla Model 3.
Make it please - but in needs 80 mph - 130 kph - 68 mph is not quite enough. The new Big Bore 652 cc engine plus Power Tube takes my top speed from 68 mph to 77 mph. Where are the airbags??
The windscreen point isn't particularly useful - in the summer when it's hot you're getting best performance out of the battery anyway. I'd be more worried about good aero in the winter to maximise range when the battery is at its worst?
From the amazing things i have my doubts on a few of them. 3: Retirement plans. - It sounds great to use all kinds of non oil based material for tire production, no doubt there is enough of the materials around (doubt it) to provide the world with all the tires it needs. - Right now a owner goes to a tire shop and in less then an hour (s)he has 4 new tires and drives off. Resurfacing sounds great but is a lengthy process. Maybe the industry will give you new tires and send the old ones back for re-threading, maybe not. This may be a good thing for the industry to go through. 6: The smarter phone: - Although i think they are on the right track, what is in the Oli completely misses the mark. Not only do we use the phone for music, but it is a main form of nav software for most people. So unless they put a screen in the Oli it is pointless as it will not get used by the majority for it takes away the nav option the phone provides. The idea behind it is right, use that computer in your pocket to do things, it is better then what a car can provide. But unless they provide a smooth working display for it, so all the functions get unlocked it is sort of pointless. I do like the concepts look and ideas, it makes me think of the first series Citroen C4 Cactus (that is still drive after 8 years, lovely car), some of the same ideas behind it. Light, features that reduce the need for certain things (wiper spray in the blades as it uses less water, thus a smaller wiper tank), quirky looks. I would love to see this as a replacement for that cactus, as long as it has a screen on the dash so i can use it to navigate. Oh and maybe another 25% battery for my business drives, 250 miles is just a little too short for what i need.
Because you, as a country, voted to leave the EU, and even the architects of Brexit admitted that the UK car industry would never survive it. I'll grant you that they certainly didn't advertise the fact, but who tf ever expected BoJo to tell the truth? BTW, in spite of the Brexit BS, unless the UK at leats aligns with the EU, you can expect the complete anihilation of waht is left of UK car manufacturing, and that is not me saying it, it is Brexit's economic strategist.
@@GeordiLaForgery No. It has everything to do with Brexit. You don't think "Neo-Liberalism" happens elsewhere? Living in Spain, I can absolutely assure you that it happens here. The difference is that Spain has maintained its businesses here, they've just been sold to multinationals, in just the same way that MINI, and JLR were. But SEAT; Cuetera and others all stayed in Spain, while MINI is slowly being dismantled to transfer what is left of production to other BMW owned plants and JLR is rapidly having the same happen to its production. Even Triumph recognises that having production outside the EU is sufficiently damaging to EU exports that it is producing more and more in India, because India actually has better terms of access to the EU than the UK does. The same can be said of both Dyson and JCB. And you think that it has nothing to do with Brexit? So, when did all these production changes start? Did they start pre 2016, or post-2016? Every. single. one. of the above started post 2016. If you think it is coincidence then you're not paying attention. BTW, I am not defending what you call "Neo Liberalism" (it has absolutely NOTHING to do with liberalism, Neo or otherwise. Just look up the origins of Liberal politics and you'll understand) This has everything to do with Libertarian politics. They are not the same at all. This rampant attack on any pretence of egalitarianism, even on basic human rights is simply appalling, but Brexit is just the culmination of those Libertarian ideals. Sure, they are the most visible and most damaging, but to ignore Brexit's source is just as bad as ignoring Brexit.
Don´t like phones, like driving... Would you use a condom which have been used 300´ 000 times(tyres)? That front window aero can mostly get fixed by clever aero like f ducts and so(head lights)... I like 3 wipers... Love this concept, bring it on Citroen!!!
The Olli is a very inovative vehicle. My favourite innovation is the way Olli is built. Natural materials are better for the environment than the usual rubbish!!
Nice to see something quirky, not seen an Ami on the road yet , this car could be good if the price is right, and if VW,bRenault and Dacia all come in with sub £22,000 cars then things will get exciting providing there is a massive expansion on public charging and the price of electricity doesn’t get too high, or are we going to see another diesel scenario. The EU have now put their plans back to 2035.
I don't see the two 10 to 12 inch screens an ev should have, where are they. How does one navigate to an electric charging station with no large navigation screen. I do not want to use a mobile to navigate as it is illegal to touch whilst driving & unlimited data might also be required whilst using navigation on a mobile.
depending on a smartphone to run the car safety systems is bad even trying to park using it. Less electronics and esp screens please steve (electronics engineer)
I dont like the phone connection because I would have to upgrade it and that's bad for the environment isn't it I just want a radio I don't subscribe to spotify or any others because of cost.
Quite possibly the ugliest car I’ve ever seen. One question regarding the point of cars getting warm like a greenhouse. Am I the only one that winds the windows down rather than putting air con on?
I want to believe believe that this car is greener, but companies have ben greenwashing their products for ages. Polyurethane seats in Electric cars are touted as "green alternatives", but unless the seats are fully recycled it's just more plastic in our landfills and oceans.
@@MaticTheProto yeah these ones do(if they ever make it to production) but the vast majority do not. I'll believe it when I see it being mass produced.
I just hate it when car makers wet our appetite with a fantastic concept car and the reality later on turns out less thrilling, actually boring and more expensive. Just look a the Ami concept car - and what have they made out of it? A really ugly thing!
@@ArsenalQ8 Well whatever, it was a very unprofessional, lashed together collection of clips. I guess the pressure was on, because they were the last Channel to review this car.
