Showing posts with label Electric Sports car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electric Sports car. Show all posts

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Volkswagen Golf GTI Adidas

 Every year Golf GTI fans gather in Reifnitz at Wörthersee for five days of Mardi Gras in May to talk, shop, showcase and dirve the GTI! Its been a tradition by Volkswagen to unveil new GTI variations at this GTI-Meet event. This year is no different. Debuting as world premieres this year are Golf GTI adidas – an exclusive model whose sales will launch in June – and the Golf GTI Excessive, a concept car implemented in a stylistically refined motorsport look.Golf GTI adidas: Customised Golf GTI launches in JuneGolf GTI Excessive: Concept adds precise motorsport look for series productionFlashback: Golf GTI 1 and Golf Citi Mk1 as tributes to their origins.Wolfsburg/Reifnitz, May 2010. There are automobiles, and then there are automotive icons – classics with a glorious past and an exciting future.
The Golf GTI is such an icon. Over 1.7 million have been sold since the car’s debut in 1976. In just the sixth year after the launch of the Golf GTI, its community of fans had grown so large that it sought a common platform, or to put it simply an event, to talk shop, showcase and drive the GTI. That is how the GTI-Meet in Reifnitz at Wörthersee came into being in 1982. Since then, fans have been meeting in the Austrian state of Kärnten for five days of Mardi Gras in May. It is already time to meet again. One of the traditional highlights: unveiling of the new GTI variations. Debuting as world premieres this year are the Golf GTIadidas – an exclusive model whose sales will launch in June – and the Golf GTI Excessive, a concept car implemented in a stylistically refined motorsport look.The new Golf GTI adidas and the GTI concept car will be accompanied by two GTI classics: the first generation Golf GTI (1976) and the Golf Citi Mk1 − a last edition, limited to 1,000 units, of the first generation Golf whose production has just been phased out in South Africa. Volkswagen Classic is bringing these two icons to Wörthersee. Its motto: GTI history
meets GTI present and future.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Protoscar LAMPO2 Electric Sports car

Protoscar LAMPO2 is an electric demonstration sports car conceived by Protoscar a Swiss company which has been developing CleanCar projects for 23 years including consulting of OEMs, power utilities and governments. The LAMPO boasts “quick-charging” capability (up to 100 km range extension in just 10 minutes charging time) and will be presented at the Geneva Motor Show 2010.LAMPO2 has two electric motors (allowing it to operate as a four-wheel drive with variable torque between front and rear axle for optimal handling, safety and efficiency) with a total output of 300 kW (equivalent to 408 HP), 640 Nm (over 50% more than its predecessor!) and over 30 kWh of Lithium-Ion battery capacity. LAMPO2 features real sports-car performances: 5 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h, 200 km/h of max. speed and a range of over 200 km. More than enough energy for driving is produced by a remote solar plant which is installed on the roof of a farm in Tuscany, allowing a real zero-emission drive on a “Well-to-Wheel” basis.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Venturi Fetish Electric Sports Car

THE AMBASSADRESS OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE At the “Mondial de l'Automobile” (Paris Motor Show) of 2004, Venturi launched a surprising concept for its 20th anniversary: Fétish, the world’s 1st electric sports car. This highly innovative move from Venturi caused a major cultural change.Since then, the Venturi Fétish has gone all around the world, changing the image of the electric car and influencing the entire automotive industry, from small craftsmen to large manufacturers.A real laboratory, it has enabled us to acquire and master the most innovative technologies which we have then used to benefit other models we have designed.The great virtue of the Fétish is thus to have propelled the Venturi brand to the forefront in just a few years, making it a visionary company at the leading edge of technology. VM300: A NEW GENERATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS Presented in April 2008 at the Top Marques Salon in Monaco, Venturi’s new VM300 is the most successful electric motor ever designed for this type of application.