Citroën Ami

Start with what the Citroën Ami is: a 2-door quadricycle with electric motor, built from 2020, in the decade the industry is turning electric. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Pierre Leclercq (Ami) / Centro Stile Fiat (Topolino).

The background

The Citroën Ami is a two-door, battery-electric quadricycle marketed by the French brand Citroën since 2020. Designed by Pierre Leclercq and named after the model produced between 1961 and 1978, the production model was previewed by the "Ami One" concept car.

Both the Ami and Ami One were developed simultaneously by Groupe PSA (now Stellantis) and Altran. The vehicle is manufactured at the Stellantis Kenitra plant in Kenitra, Morocco, equipped with a compact electric motor located at the front, providing 6 kilowatts (8.0 hp; 8.2 PS) driving the front wheels. The vehicle's diminutive size has been noted by car reviewers, with a journalist from The Telegraph describing being inside the Ami as "being inside a Lego brick".

The engineering

The engine is electric motor. On the scales it comes to 425 kg. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

In the Citroën line-up the Citroën Ami has a clear place: it replaced the Citroën C-Zero; the factory was Kenitra (Stellantis Kenitra plant), Morocco. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Model Y, the Porsche Taycan, the Kia EV6. Its Citroën stablemates include the Citroën K and the Citroën 2CV.