There are just 700 parts in the new Renault Twingo electric city car, according to Renault. Which sounds like not a lot. I don't quite understand precisely how they define a part.
I mean, if you were to separate every strand of wire in a cable, every element of every clip and connector, every individual battery cell, surely it would be more? I don't know the minutiae. And actually it doesn't matter, so long as they're using the same metric across all their cars. Which they do, because they want to track it and know themselves, because this sort of thing is the key to making the frog-faced new Twingo available for less than £20,000.
