Thursday, December 23, 2010

New electric car design-Nido evs

Italian design company Nido official release of their electric vehicle prototypes, which means that they open for electric cars and hybrid vehicles designed a new modular platform. 2004 Nido Nido city electric vehicle concept car is an upgraded version, Smart ForTwo has a lot of similar design.
Nido platform designed entirely by , including the shape and the internal structure of this platform, can design a variety of different models, including the two-seater, four models, as well as pickup and van van. Although this prototype iron pipes used steel frame chassis, but the production car will use more lightweight aluminum space frame structure.
This prototype uses a 30KW Nido permanent magnet motor drive the rear wheels, the future, other derivative models will also include a hybrid front-engine cars, or pre-arrangement of the motor. Unlike other companies, is currently developing electric vehicles, opted to use a higher energy density, but the work has a high temperature nickel - salt (Ni-NaCl) Zebra batteries. Despite 21.2 kwh electricity, but the battery is only 181 kg total weight. In addition Zebra batteries can also completely recyclable, does not contain hazardous materials. Nido said to have 138 km of mileage, from 0 to 100km / h as long as 6.7 seconds.

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