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G-Wiz: Environmental and Public Health Icon by India in United Kingdom

The G-Wiz of the United Kingdom and the REVA of India are one and the same electric car, big on environmental and public health though small in size.

G-Wiz Applies India-Made Technology to United Kingdom’s Traffic The electric cars that are called the G-Wiz in the United Kingdom and the REVA in India are so friendly to environmental and public health that they sell well as used cars. The G-Wiz belongs to history since its replacement by the G-Wiz i (REVAi) in 2008 and the Mahindra e20, REVA L-ion and REVA NXG in 2009. Mahinda Reva Electric Vehicles Private Limited considers G-Wiz a generator of minimalist carbon footprints thanks to 80 percent fewer moving parts than internal combustion engine-fueled cars. Michael Boxwell, author of The Electric Car Guide: G-Wiz, describes G-Wiz’s 90 percent efficiency with just three moving parts and its powerful acceleration without multi-ratio gearboxes. He emphasizes the ecological sense of personal transportation that emits no carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide or sulphur dioxide and uses 97 percent recyclable batteries. ***** Websites: http://www.goingreen.co.uk/product/g-wiz-ac-black/ http://www.greenstreampublishing.com http://theelectriccarguide.net/reva-g-wiz.html *****

Soho, City of Westminster, London's West End — rosfromhackney @FableandCo, via Twitter Jan. 28, 2014

G-Wiz Furnishes Prompt Accelerations from, Decelerations to Standstill

Pit to plug, point of power, point of use and well to wheel flourish when comparing environmental and public health impacts of alternative and conventional cars. Analyses from pit to plug and from well to wheel generate respective carbon footprints for battery recharge-time electricity and for engine diesel, gas, oil and petrol.

The G-Wiz has a smaller carbon footprint than that of conventional cars, hybrids and hybrid plug-ins because of its diminutive size, limited range and restricted speed. It is a heavy quadricycle in Europe, a neighborhood electric vehicle in the United States and, per manufacturers in Bangalore, India, a small micro electric car.

The key in the ignition and the shoe off the accelerator respectively jump-start the motor into immediate low speed acceleration and into instant slow speed braking.

Mayfair, City of Westminster, London's West End — rosfromhackney @FableandCo, via Twitter March 1, 2013

G-Wiz Keeps Up with Congested, Stop-and-Go Urban Traffic

G-Wiz weights keep steady at 665 kilograms (1,466.07 pounds), with 395 kilograms (820.82 pounds) of car and with 270 kilograms (595.25 pounds) of lead acid batteries. The two-door, four-seat, 1.52-meter- (5-foot-) long, 2.59-meter- (8.5-foot-) tall G-Wiz lets two adults into the front and two children into the back, for 270-kilogram (595.25-pound) maximums. It maintains speeds of 16 kilometers (9.94 miles) per hour in stop-and-go traffic, up to 80 kilometers (49.71 miles) per hour, within a 64.37-kilometer (40-mile) range.

G-Wiz owners need 9 seconds to plug into 24-volt domestic power sockets, 2.5 hours to reach 80 percent capacity and eight hours to realize 100 percent.

Michael Boxwell observes that eight lead acid batteries in the G-Wiz, sold new from 2004 through 2007 in the United Kingdom, store 8 kWh of energy.

G-Wiz (REVA) electric car on display at the 2009 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London; Saturday, July 11, 2009, 12:08 — MilborneOne, CC BY SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en), via Wikimedia Commons

G-Wiz Promotes Low Pollution Levels, High Recycling Rates

Restricted ranges, sizes and speeds prompt G-Wiz and REVA drivers to worry more about environmental and public health impacts of battery-caused pollution than about point-of-power pollution.

Michael Boxwell quantifies the carbon footprints for each battery, each eight-pack and each four-year cycle at 15, 120 and 360 kilograms (33.07, 264.44 and 793.66 pounds). Four-year replacement schedules, every 80,000 kilometers (49,709,69 miles), result in eight-pack, 97 percent recyclable sets whose footprint is 4.5 grams per kilometer (0.16 ounces per mile). Melted, reformed casings supply reusable raw lead from 98 percent of United States’ recyclable lead acid batteries and 100 percent of Europe’s used lead acid batteries.

Michael Boxwell tells of traversing London 20 minutes before his wife’s conventional car because of G-Wiz’s infiltrating small openings, occupying tiny spaces and perfecting speed changes.

"Goodbye G-Wiz" (2:20) "Michael Boxwell says goodbye to his REVA G-Wiz, his first ever electric car, and takes it for a last drive."

Uploaded October 15, 2011, by Michael Boxwell to YouTube ~ URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33NusvVva4w

Goodbye G-Wiz

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image Credits

Soho, City of Westminster, London's West End: rosfromhackney @FableandCo, via Twitter Jan. 28, 2014, @ https://twitter.com/rosfromhackney/status/428244653687578625

Mayfair, City of Westminster, London's West End: rosfromhackney @FableandCo, via Twitter March 1, 2013, @ Mayfair, City of Westminster, London's West End
rosfromhackney @FableandCo via Twitter March 1, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/rosfromhackney/status/307479469596225536

G-Wiz (REVA) electric car on display at the 2009 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Wendy Allen, environmental designer based in Ramsbury in South West England, won gold medal for Best Sustainable Garden Award: her sustainable rain garden design also showcased G-Wiz/Reva electric car as transportation mode of choice for urban dwellings.
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London; Saturday, July 11, 2009, 12:08: MilborneOne, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reva-10208.jpg

"Goodbye G-Wiz" (2:20) "Michael Boxwell says goodbye to his REVA G-Wiz, his first ever electric car, and takes it for a last drive."
Uploaded October 15, 2011, by Michael Boxwell to YouTube ~ URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33NusvVva4w

G-Wiz at 2008 British International Motor Show was held at ExCeL London (Exhibition Centre London) from Wednesday, July 23, to Sunday, August 3.
Victoria Dock, London Borough of Newham, East London; Friday, March 7, 2008, 07:35:26: Alan_D from Crawley, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G-Wiz_-_Flickr_-_Alan_D.jpg; Alan_C, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/adspackman/2703675450/

Mayfair, City of Westminster, London's West End: rosfromhackney @FableandCo, via Twitter Jan. 23, 2014, @ https://twitter.com/rosfromhackney/status/426368018537410561

G-Wiz at 2008 British International Motor Show was held at ExCeL London (Exhibition Centre London) from Wednesday, July 23, to Sunday, August 3.

Victoria Dock, London Borough of Newham, East London; Friday, March 7, 2008, 07:35:26 — Alan_D from Crawley, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en), via Wikimedia Commons

Sources Consulted

Boxwell, Michael. 29 October 2010. The Electric Car Guide: G-Wiz. Discover the Truth about Owning and Using an Electric Car on a Day-to-Day Basis. Coventry, England, UK: Greenstream Publishing.

Boxwell, Michael. 3 August 2015. The Electric Car Guide: 2015 Edition. Discover the Truth about Owning and Using Electric Cars. Coventry, England, UK: Greenstream Publishing.

Boxwell, Michael. 2 May 2016. The Electric Car Guide: 2016 Edition. Discover the Truth About Owning and Using Electric Cars. Coventry, England, UK: Greenstream Publishing.

Fuller. John. 20 February 2008. “How the G-Wiz Electric Car Works.” HowStuffWorks.com.

Available @ http://auto.howstuffworks.com/g-wiz-electric-car.htm

the end which is also the beginning — OpenClips, Public Domain, via Pixabay

Electric Car Guide: 2016 Edition by Michael Boxwell ~ Available via Amazon

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Comments

DerdriuMarrinerNov 13, 2021

WriterArtist, Thank you for the revisit, and please accept the delayed acknowledgment of your ever-insightful comments.
Sometimes I'm the driver, sometimes I'm the passenger when we're out and about. I notice that many, perhaps most cars only have the driver inside. That means a lot of multi-car ownership here. I don't recall it being that way when I've been elsewhere, in the Americas and Europe.

WriterArtistNov 2, 2021

Hi DerdriuMarriner - I must say that US has wide roads and the population is not so large compared to the area. However, you are right about big cars and families owning more than one car. I know people may not like it but the numbers of cars can be restricted to family/people.

DerdriuMarrinerMay 7, 2021

WriterArtist, Thank you for coming by and sharing your experience with driving or passenger-ing in nightmare and non-nightmare cars in nightmare traffic.
A recent article indicated that pollution and traffic in the USA has increased despite COVID restrictions. It surprised me not one little bit because I've noticed how much big-car traffic has increased out on the country roads around me.

WriterArtistMay 7, 2021

In India driving in the traffic is nightmare. No matter, how many roads we built and how wider we keep the roads, eventually the traffic builds up. I can see future for small cars for small families. I hope this idea catches with the masses.

DerdriuMarrinerMar 7, 2017

sandyspider, Exactly! It nevertheless is my understanding that European countries really are finessing battery recycling so that hopefully the Americas will catch up before too long.

sandyspiderMar 7, 2017

DerdriuMarriner, One thing that is not mentioned is, the large batteries for these cars are not good for the environment when the car is disposed.

DerdriuMarrinerMar 6, 2017

sandyspider, It's interesting that electric- and water-powered cars appeared to have more promising futures at the beginning of the twentieth century ... until the discovery of all of the uses of fuel. The tiny size certainly gives second thoughts to driving in the world of SUVs, trucks and vans.

sandyspiderMar 4, 2017

Have not seen too many electric cars here. Not sure if I would drive one that tiny.

DerdriuMarrinerSep 18, 2016

blackspanielgallery, Thank you for the two very astute observations. Michael Boxwell, some of whose other electric and hybrid car related books I've reviewed also on Wizzley, is in agreement with you, particularly in the updated, 2016 edition of his electric car guide.

blackspanielgallerySep 18, 2016

It is the fewer moving parts that must be significant. I have always questioned hybrids for the electricity used to recharge them comes from a power plant, so I still see a carbon footprint. But with fewer working parts there may well be a reduction in carbon footprint here.