Published by Ash October 11th, 2007
in Electric Vehicles and Chinese Car News.
The governator recently showed up in China, unbeknown to China Car Times, the wall of muscle that is Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a visit to Youngman auto as they recently signed up with ZAP! autos to make electric vehicles for the US market, you can read more about that deal here.
Arnie seems to be looking at a Gen2 racer in this particular picture.
Arnie stated that he welcomes Youngman to send buses, trucks, and sedans to his state, and he will support them.
According to the Chinese press, the deal will see Youngman and ZAP create buses, trucks, and the ZAP crossover sedan.
Published by Ash October 11th, 2007
in Electric Vehicles and BYD Auto.
BYD recently announced plans to mass produce the BYD F6, you might be thinking ‘eh? BYD already mass produce the F6!’ this time BYD are going to roll out a fully electric F6 model, not a hybrid but a true plug-in electric car.
BYD has apperently created a new kind of battery that uses iron, China Car Times is not battery expert, but what we’ve been told is that no other battery manufacturer uses iron in their batteries. BYD says it had 500 workers on the iron battery that it says will be used in the future in everything from cars to mobile phones to laptops.
What has BYD named this incredible invention after spending what must be millions and millions of RMB on R&D? They’ve called it ‘ET-POWER’, thats right, ‘ET-POWER’. China Car Times pictures a little alien and a kid riding a bicycle across a miniature moon in every battery.
Continue reading ‘BYD to mass produce electric car!’
Published by Ash May 12th, 2007
in Electric Vehicles and Chinese Car News.
No, not the Alfa 159, but a new model, the Comet, from Flybo-EV.
We’ve talked about Flybo-Ev before today, they were bringing a range of low speed electric vehicles to the United States. According to the information we received earlier today from Flybo’s owners Wuzheng Kama USA (they changed names!) the Comet, pictured left, was designed by the upcoming Italian designer Gianpalo Alvino. It seems the Comet doesn’t only look good, it looks like it might perform as well!
Flybo-EV have said the Comets body will be an exotic composite mix of cabon fiber and Kevlar, the ‘alloy’ wheels will also be carbon fiber - the whole car will looks like it will look great! Following on in the Flybo-EV range of products, the Comet will also be an electric vehicle except it wont be classed as a ‘low speed electric vehicle‘ it looks like this baby will pack some speed - the Comet is boasting a top speed of 100mph, and a theoretical distance (depends which options pack you buy with the Comet) of 200 miles before it needs recharging. The fun doesnt stop under the bonnet, the car will feature an onboard computer with a reported 40-60gb hard drive and a screen, the Flybo-EV boss, Micheal Papp says you can either use it to listen to music, watch a DVD (while stationary of course) and even use it as a GPS system. The Comet is a two seater car aimed at commuters into big US cities, pricing is not 100% sure, but Mr. Papp imagines it to be in the $30,000 area.
China Car Times asks, when will the electric revolution fully take hold and everyone has an electric motor?
For more info, talk to Flybo-EV
Update: We have another picture, click to see a bigger version:
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