
The Toyota Aygo X is exactly the kind of car that EVs are struggling to quash. Whilst SUVs and GTs and all manner of brawny, large vehicles are well suited to the battery-lugging requirements of electric propulsion, small city cars are a far trickier premise.
At 3.7m long, the Aygo X is truly diminutive by modern standards (although as a point of reference, the ‘classic’ original Mini was just over 3m long). Bung in a battery, and the balance between cost, weight, performance and range fails to stack up. Hence the Aygo X sensibly sticks with a combustion engine.