A new fully-electric vehicle with solar panels will be hitting the streets of Europe by the year 2010. Italian car designer Pininfarina and French battery manufacturer Bolloré have officially announced that the five door Blue Car hatchback is said to be now ready for production.
Previously unveiled at last year's Geneva Show, the Blue Car is a fully-electric vehicle that comes equipped with solar panels on the rooftop. The vehicle is 3.65 meters long, 1.6 meters high, and 1.72 meters wide, and features a 50kW electric motor that provides an acceleration of 0-60 mph in around 6 seconds and a top speed of 80 mph.
The solar panels on the vehicle’s roof provides some power to the vehicle’s systems. It comes with regenerative brakes and a Lithium Metal Polymer batteries, and has a range of 155 miles per charge. According to the manufacturer, all the materials in the construction have been sourced to be as environmentally friendly as possible. The Blue Car will be available in 2010, with full scale production of 60,000 units in the years to come.
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