Thursday, July 20, 2006

ZENN - Zero Emission No Noise

Zenn is an electric car, known in Europe as Microcar. Several tens of thousands of them already run on Europe's roads and there are 800 distributors in 14 countries. The original design is by a Canadian company called Feelgood Cars and they will be marketed in North America from August this year. A link to the company website is given in our links column on the right side of this page.
What a dream if they appeared on the roads of Bangkok:

NO POLLUTION, NO NOISE

Here are the specifications:
Maximum Speed: 45 Km/hr
Distance on a charge: 56 Km
Recharge: 8 to 9 hours: an 80% charge can be achieved in 4 hours
Batteries: six 12V electrolytic batteries, giving 5 HP
There is also a version using Li ion batteries which allows a distance of 100 kms between charges, but charge time is 10 to 12 hours.

Well, yes, the car looks a bit stubby, but think of the parking advantage. Please, readers of Quiet Bangkok, please begin to import, buy, manufacture locally; what a dream city we can have.

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