Anyone under the age of 40 has likely piloted a Cozy Coupe. The iconic red-and-yellow plaything made by Little Tikes famously became the undisputed best-selling car on the planet by 1991, when it was revealed that it had sold over 500,000 units in that year alone. Its charming simplicity and accessibility have meant continued success in the decade since.
With a giant hole in the floor meant for kids to stick their feet through and propel the Cozy Coupe, the mini-car has always technically been human-powered. But for years, Little Tikes has offered a fueling station accessory to connect to the car’s onboard gas cap, alluding to the idea that if the Cozy Coupe had a powertrain, it would use gasoline.
For the first time in nearly 50 years, that’s changing. Little Tikes has just introduced a new electric charging station as an accessory for the Cozy Coupe, meaning that, in the imaginary world of Cozy Coupe propulsion, the car is now available as an EV.
It’s called the Cozy E-Charging Station, and it’s a standalone piece that you can buy separately from the Cozy Coupe. It features a plug that slots neatly into the Coupe’s standard fuel door, meaning you don’t have to make any modifications to the car to accept electric power (I truly wish it were that easy for real cars). And thanks to a set of three AA batteries, the station can even power on and flash lights and sounds towards the user.
There’s even more news for commercial users running job sites in their backyards. Little Tikes says the E-Charging Station is compatible with any Cozy Coupe-style vehicle it sells, which means it should make converting vehicles like the Cozy Truck and Cozy Ice Cream Truck to electric power a breeze.
The company also says using the charger “raises environmental awareness,” which I’m not totally sold on, seeing as how the action of plugging it in is the same as using the longstanding “Cozy Pumper,” the name of the fuel pump accessory, and the car remains foot-powered no matter which accessory you pair it to. In the world of role-playing, I guess it makes some sense. If your kid sees you plugging the family Mustang Mach-E into a charger rather than filling it up at a gas station, they might be a bit confused about filling up their toy car with gasoline.
Weirdly, this isn’t the first time that Little Tikes has introduced the Cozy Coupe to electric power. As The Bishop pointed out back in 2024, the company also sells a floating, inflatable boat version of the Cozy Coupe that comes equipped with two electric motors and a remote control, so parents can lead them around the pool. The remote can also mount to the dash for in-cabin control, if you’re the type of parent to trust your kid with that sort of power.
Whether this means Little Tikes will eventually start selling motorized versions of the original Cozy Coupe isn’t clear—it’s never done that since the product’s inception, and it would likely make the toy more expensive and complex. With EV demand for real cars flattening out, I wouldn’t be surprised if Little Tikes puts that idea on the back burner for now.
Top graphic images: Little Tykes; Redbubble
That floating cozy coupe… my first thought was I need to get 8 of them, stick my nieces and nephews in them, and have a pool demo derby until there is only one left floating. There can be only one! The ultimate showdown!
Wait, am I a bad uncle?
Nah. Such things build character.
No you are the good uncle. It is an uncle’s job to endanger the nieces and nephews to allow them to learn life lessons their parents would never teach them.
Just as a note, if you have a kid that is lactose intolerant, no Little Tikes product will be gas free.
For a toddler oriented EV I prefer ride on top with parental remote control:
https://a.co/d/011ykK6a
Just think of the lifelong trauma you can induce in your child when the car they’re driving, maybe even bonded with suddenly and inexplicably begins to behave like something from a Steven King story.
Hmm, I wonder if these come in red 1958 Plymouth Fury or 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III…
Back when my kids were young, the ran on Goldfish. It was about a pack a mile.
Oh how we have advanced.
Whether this means Little Tikes will eventually start selling motorized versions of the original Cozy Coupe isn’t clear
I for one vote for a two-stroke Cozy Coupe
Pretty sure East Germany sold those up till 1989 or so.
I was in Berlin yesterday and saw an entire lot of Trabants! My wife was very perplexed why I was so excited
Did you lick one? I hear they taste like greasy old underpants.
There’s an interesting story somewhere to get that baseline knowledge.
East German living at it’s finest.
I saw one in Bristol in the UK just this weekend! It was in the period correct undernourished-baby-shit-brown colour paint, and had a DDR sticker on the back.
I was thinking more YZ250, but I can’t disagree with you.
With a pull start.
PUT IT IN H
Is it subsidized?
Thank god I got my son a gas one before they went EV! /s
Sadly no range extender option on that one.
I was assured, ASSURED, that this is the year of the hybrid.
It is:
“It’s called the Cozy E-Charging Station, and it’s a standalone piece that you can buy separately from the Cozy Coupe. It features a plug that slots neatly into the Coupe’s standard fuel door, meaning you don’t have to make any modifications to the car to accept electric power (I truly wish it were that easy for real cars).”
It’s great that it’s backward compatible, but it doesn’t explicitly say we can mix/match fuels. It seems like the retrofit replaces the fuel tank to add battery capacity. I’m not saying we should be too reactive to current fuel prices, but this does seem like an opportune time for them to be releasing them. Personally, I think the payback period won’t push me away from gas, but for a new buyer it’s a no brainer.
Well it DOESN’T say you can’t mix/match fuels so go for it!
After all what’s the worst that can happen?
But there is. It’s called full-sugar soda.
Or maybe that works more like nitrous.
Lego and all those other toy companies have polluted my kids with these ‘electric’ toys as well.
Guess what. I am still going to teach them how to do vroom vroom noises.
Noises came to mind as well. What noise do they make when they charge it? Gasoline makes a filling sound.
Also, as a father of two young kids, yes, electrification of toys is the bane of my existence. Everything needs a battery or a cord. Fuck off toy makers.
Noises? Mostly cooling fans, or a whine from the inverter. I think kids will have a very easy time duplicating the whine….
I suppose. My mind was focused on the noise liquids make when being pumped and filling a container, electricity doesn’t do that, but there are other noises as a part of the charging process. Good point!
The secret to quietification of such toys is tape over the speaker. Duct for really loud toys, but it is obvious, scotch tape is much more clandestine.
I’ll live with noise, kids always make noise whether the toy does or not. it’s the constant need for power that drives me nuts! Now my kids are stealing my phone cables from the spot where I store them for my use! Grr!
Vroom vroom noises, just like a Dodge Charger Daytona!
Queue the jackhole who builds a rolling coal mod in response once he hears about this on his glorified AM talk-radio “podcasts” on the YooToob.
That’s an easy mod. Bush’s has been selling a coal rolling kit for children for decades.
EV is ok but the flush aero door releases on this are just dangerous, they need mechanical handles!!! Not worth the risk in a crash just to eek out a little more range. Wait…one side doesn’t even open–this is value engineering run amok!!!!!!!
Wait…one side doesn’t even open!!!!!!!
It’s like an Elio in that regard.
But unlike the Elio, these exist in great numbers, adding to the danger!
Isn’t the plastic body still made from petroleum byproducts?
Virtue signaling again……/s
Fuckin got em!
Made in the USA though* so there’s that.
*By you, the parent, probably on Christmas eve.
I’m waiting 25 years to import a JDM one.
When that day comes can you overnight it from Japan?
Nah, just the parts. I’m choosing RORO to save on shipping fees.
JEEZUS THE LIBS WON’t EVeN LET US HAVE TOU…CARS ANYMORE! THANKS OBAMNA! NEXT LITTLE TIKES IS GONNA RELEASE A BIBLE BURNING TOY! IL BET THIS MAKES YOU CATCH.the GAY TOO! YOUR AUNT SHARD A FACE.BOOK ARTICLE ABOUT CATCHIN THE TRANS AND THE GAY YESTERDAY ITS SCARY STUFF !
I.M GONNA BUT THE ENTIRE STOCK OF GAS COZY COPES BECAUSE NONE OF MY NIECES AND NEWPHEWS ARE GONNA SUCCOMB TO THE PROPAGANDER….
-sent from my LG Optimus G
GOBBLESS!!
It is nice you are so quick to openly mock and stereotype those who disagree with you. Congratulations on being so tolerant.
SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT!
I’m not criticizing or stereotyping all liberals. I only responded to you – I am specifically criticizing your comment.
I’m just hoping on some level you appreciate your own irony.
WHATS WIT DEM SMALL LETTURS, HOSS?
You must be very clever as well. Comedy gold.
WHY WON’T MY KIDS VISIT ME.
I’m reading this in Mr. Regular’s voice, and having a good time.
I have context, in case you don’t already know. There’s a Facebook group where people pretend to be boomers who are learning how to use the Internet. Well, I suppose there’s a second one, if you count the GMT800s With Threatening Auras group.
Apparently, they funded a man’s liver transplant while staying in character:
https://www.jalopnik.com/boomer-selling-air-compressor-to-fund-liver-transplant-1846840470/
I think I came across that before but forgot about it.
I guess the boomer jokes don’t work with me because I am somehow less aware of current trends (or even stuff from a few years ago) than actual boomers. I’m not even old enough to be gen x but very little of this makes sense to me. I think need to spend even less time on the internet.
Wonderful. You know crazy conservatives are going to scream ‘indoctrination’.
Cue the lawsuits for kids swallowing batteries to recharge their EV Cozy Coupes.
Can we just take a second to give them props for: Adding tons of future plastic waste, with disposable batteries in 2026, all while pretending it was to “raise environmental awareness.
A lighting sticker on the charge flap, and redesigned plug under it would have done.
But profits must be had!
Coz-E Charging Station was RIGHT THERE.
“the same as using the longstanding “Cozy Pumper,” the name of the fuel pump accessory”
Huh. That’s the name they went with? I mean, yeah, ok.
Right? TIL.
That was… a choice.
That’s what the wife calls me.
She calls me that too.
I’m kind of surprised it took Fisher Price this long, considering their Little People garage playset has had a charger on one of the levels for years (still has a gas pump too, but at least they’ve expanded out).
KRAMER: (to Mickey) What about lifts?
MICKEY: (to Kramer) Out of the question.
GEORGE: (to Mickey) Can’t you just switch with another Midget?
(Mickey grabs the counter with rage on his face, Jerry does a form of gulp)
MICKEY: (turns and moves up to George, points his finger at him) It’s little people, you got that?
KRAMER: Easy Mickey, easy.
Fisher Price does not equal Little Tikes.
My older brother would have 1,000% whipped me with that “charge cable” a few times before my parents would have just taken it away
As is tradition.
This is the biggest shock to the system since the Game of Life switched from station wagons to minivans.
This will make some people so angry, for no reason.
I’m incredibly angry! I don’t remember my Little Tykes Cozy Coop even having a fuel door. Was my foot powered childhood car a cheap knock off? Was my whole childhood a lie?
You may wish to sit down…. Yes. All lies. William Shatner is not your real father, either. I’m so sorry, but we saw how much you loved his various toupees, and it seemed like such a harmless lie, at the time. Everything just got out of hand.
I don’t want to assume, but I’m going to guess they’re similar to my uncle who told my parents that buying me a kitchen playset would make me gay.
Yea probably. So many rural guys I off road with see EVs as cultural genocide.
Species extinction is a larger issue in our current polluting and wasteful ways.
100%!
Those people have some strange ideas.
Imagine getting so made over a child’s toy.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
You are damn right this makes me angry!
Adding a battery and lights to this ting makes it close to impossible to recycle.
I mean, where does this thing even go in the recycle center? I would think the copper content is to high for the Ewaste bin. But then it is no longer recycleable as pure plastic either.
And if you think I am overreacting, just imagine those clercs at the recycle center!
We actually got a memo in our town report this year to sort some of our recycling better or the main hub is going to start to fine our town. So I don’t know if you’re joking or not, but this is a real concern.
*we do recycle and try, but when things get like this and no one is 100% sure, mistakes are made.
“It has just come to my Attention that the children’s Toy company “Little Tikes” has converted their “Cozy Coupe” car into an ELECTRIC VEHICLE at the behest of the RADICAL LEFT and the “Transgender for Everybody” Community! As President of this great Country, we CANNOT let these “woke” toy companies continue to indoctrinate our impressionable Children! I have directed FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate any ties to China that Little Tikes might have (as everyone knows, China is leading the way in building these COMMUNIST electric cars!) and I have told Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to start “bomb, bomb, bombing” the Little Tikes factory so that production of these DEGENERATE toy Cars will cease immediately! Thank you for your Attention to this Matter!”
Thank you!
I can’t wait for this to show up on certain websites under the headings “woke” and “indoctrination”.
Hmm…cheap electric motors in water? Around small children? What could possibly go wrong?
Right? What if there are sharks? What do you do, get eaten or electrocuted?
(in case you’ve forgotten:https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mocked-rally-sharks-rant-las-vegas-boats-1910275)
Only two years ago. I’m sure it’s gotten better.
Your skin presents too much resistance for the low voltages of a couple of AA’s to hurt you. Even when wet.
Nothing. Don’t be one of those.
As a young teen, I use to point to the extension cord going to our pool filter and tell the neighbor kids in the pool, “remember kids, water and electricity means fun” I was too often unsupervised as a kid.
I used to break in brushed RC motors by taping a AA to the leads and dumping them into a pot of water. No shorting or sparking, they ran just fine. Afterwards they had more power and ran cooler. Made the water filthy with brush material, though. I also imagine the pool floaty motors are sealed units to prevent corrosion, and as mentioned by others, low voltage. Remember, your wall outlet is 110-240v and connected to a constant source of electricity, so throwing a toaster in the pool is way worse than a couple of alkalines that maybe together run about 3v and probably are completely sealed from it anyway.
still better looking than a Cybertruck
Cozy coupes are fueled by goldfish crackers and koolaid. Really they will run on almost anything edible. Alternatives bio fuels before it was a thing.
Cozy Coupe drivers really drank the Kool Aid, eh?