Beijing - The presence of an electric car, recently do not just grow in number only. Design, materials, and machine capabilities are increasingly diverse. Newer news launched by autoevolution.com, Monday (26 / 4) mentions that a Japanese company, Teijin Group, introduced the mini-sized ultra-light electric car.
EV PU-PA, that's the name given to a car Teijin creations. "Raw materials and cars came from carbon composites, polycarbonat resins, and derivatives from bio polyster. It's very possible that the car's weight is only 437 kilograms, or half of a conventional electric cars, "said by a source at Teijin, Monday (26 / 4).
While the particulars of performance, Teijin claims the debut of little car is capable of racing up to the speed of 60 kilometers per hour and travel distances up to 100 kilometers.
In parts of the body for example, Teijin uses carbon fiber composites. While the window using a polycarbonate resin material weighs only half the weight of the glass. Another advantage of this material is, to absorb heat, thereby reducing the impact of global warming effects.
"When it is seen and compared with other electric cars, use of materials by EV PU-PA is more economical for 20 items. In other words, the car reduces the impact on the environment since the use of environmentally friendly materials, "explained by the source.
Electric cars, now on display in the showroom of Teijin Mirai Studio is located not far from central offices of Teijin Group in Tokyo. Teijin is a group of several companies engaged in automotive and aerospace sectors, information technology and electronics, as well as health and environmental technology.
Then will the EV PU-PA massively produced and marketed? Until now, there has been no definite explanation from Teijin at all.
As known, other electric cars - though not as heavy as a conventional-engined car - on average, weighs about 1 ton.
Compared to the heavy conventional version, it has far shrunk thanks to the use of carbon fiber and other lightweight materials.
