Electric Audi A2 Goes
372 Miles
Little Lekker Mobil, a four-seat Audi A2 refitted with an
experimental electric powerplant as part of a government sponsored project with
Germany's lekker Energie and DBM Energy, just completed a 372-mile (600-km)
stretch of road between Munich and Berlin on a single charge, a journey that
lasted around seven hours. Even with the heater running, the modified A2 with
fully usable trunk arrived with spare electricity in the "tank." The battery
uses DBM Energy's KOLIBRI AlphaPolymer Technology said to be 97 percent
efficient and chargeable from virtually any socket -- plug it into a high
voltage DC source and it can be fully charged in just six minutes according to
the car's driver and battery inventor, Mirko Hannemann.
While Hannemann wouldn't be pinned down on
pricing for the battery, the 27 year old did say that it would
be more powerful and cheaper than conventional lithium ion
batteries. He even went so far as to suggest that his company
was ready to begin mass production of the batteries now --
presumably aided by the large sacks of money he'll be handed
after pulling off the record breaking stunt.
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