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Iconic French Deux-Chevaux Gets a New All-Electric Life in Paris

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Iconic French Deux-Chevaux Gets New All-Electric Life

Postwar France had a love affair with it, driving it across cities, through country roads and to the beach.

The "deux-chevaux," or "deudeuche" as the French affectionately dubbed the iconic Citroen car 2CV, featured in the comic cops-and-robbers films of Louis de Funes and black-and-white movies like “La bride sur le cou,” starring Brigitte Bardot. The car, which became a collectors’ item rolled out for antique parades, is now getting a new lease of life, trading in its old gas engine for an all-electric motor. The first of the converted cars made its debut in Paris at the end of December.