Less than a year after French automotive components developer Valeo and Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation announced a partnership with the intent to bring an electric vehicle to series production in 2011, the two companies have come up with an electric demo car, which has been presented to the Beijing Governor.
The vehicle features a complete powertrain developed by Valeo and its partners Leroy Somer and GKN, comprising an electric motor, an inverter, a transmission, a charger, a supervisor and a DC/DC converter. By using a synchronous permanent magnet motor with a large operating speed range, Valeo says its electric powertrain is able to deliver both good acceleration at low and medium speeds and a high top vehicle speed, though no specific details were announced about the system or its specs, nor are there any images of the vehicle.
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paul, can u do FC comparison between cars like alto, picanto, saga, myvi, i10?
sweet car …
quite a nice design.. simple. :)
Seems like everybody is jumping into alternative fuel bandwagons nowadays. Many players are relative unknown entities. In fact, I see many non-auto manufacturers diving in. Yes, no doubt, it is still very early in the game, so everybody has equal chances of making it big. It’s the new gold rush.
But, I’m afraid that most companies just jumping in – without full realization of their capabilities, technical challenges ahead, capital requirements, supporting infrastructure availability, regulations and lobbying obstacles they have to go through. And, the final hurdle – the acceptance of end users to their products.
The situation is reminiscent of the early days dot com era. Seeing a fresh new territory, many new individuals / companies jumped in. Most of them were never in IT related industries and never had a real capability. Fuelled by successes of a few, many more jumped in, creating a bubble – which later burst. I do see parallels here. After all, its a new fresh ground to fight on. So far, none has made a real success yet. But soon, a few will. Many more will then jump in, and so history will repeat itself. We are then set for the next global economy meltdown!
A doomsayer am I? Time will tell…
It’s also because China (and Europe) are implementing stricter emissions laws, unlike a certain SEA country which is still neither here nor there. :-)
its natural for company to survive ever changing business environment..
I wonder when we Malaysian could drive electric car? the Japanese is already use electric car such as i-miev…