Looky-here, urban estate agents and promoters of fizzy energy drinks. Need a new town runaround for your business? Battery getting a bit tired on your Renault Twizy? Fear not! Help is at hand! From the Seat Minimo. It’s like a Twizy, but Spanish. And a concept car.

It’s buzzword bingo from Seat on this one. “Vision of the future of urban mobility”? Check. “Developed to help meet the challenges of city driving, emission regulations, increasing fatigue of traffic jams or the lack of parking spaces”? Check. Does Seat claim the Minimo lives in the sweet spot between ‘the safety of the comfort of a car, and the smallness of a motorbike’? Of course it does.

Naturally, the 1+1-seater is electric, and has been designed with battery-swapping in mind, so charging is less of a bugbear. Seat reckons this could help lower the cost and complication of running a city car sharing service, like those app-based bike-share schemes you’ll have come across. Mostly when tripping over the errant discarded bikes dumped all over pavements and car parks.

The Minimo’s 2.5 metres long and only 1.24m wide – that’s a full half a metre narrower than a Seat Ibiza supermini. Which is admittedly quite big, as superminis go. And very roomy with it. The Minimo doesn’t exactly look commodious. But Seat says there’s more distance between its occupants than in an Ibiza.

As it’s a concept, lots has been done to make the cabin look inviting. Splashes of colour and 2019’s must-have, a digital instrument display, are present and correct.

How fast? How far on one charge? How much? Anyone’s guess, since Seat’s not provided a list of specs, which means the Twizy probably won’t have a Spanish rival on its patch any time soon.