General Motors, SAIC Unveiling 2-Seat Urban Vehicle
Detroit Free Press, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:26 AM
General Motors today is taking the wraps off the EN-V, a new two-passenger zero-emission vehicle for dense metro areas that it has been developing with Segway. It looks like a large helmet on two wheels, Tim Higgins reports. A GM exec says the concept will be especially appealing to drivers in big Asian cities.
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GM and its Chinese partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Group (SAIC), will exhibit three working versions of the vehicle -- the Pride, Magic and Laugh -- at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai in May. It could retail at one-fifth to one-sixth the price of a conventional car and cost a third or a fourth of what it takes to operate.
"EN-V reinvents the automobile by creating a new vehicle DNA through the convergence of electrification and connectivity," says GM China president Kevin Wale in a statement. "It provides an ideal solution for urban mobility that enables future driving to be free from petroleum and emissions, free from congestion and accidents, and more fun and fashionable than ever before."
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