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General Motors: Billion requested for Volt

The U.S. car giant General Motors is threatening to spin into bankruptcy and urges the U.S. government to now to 2.6 billion U.S. dollars from a subsidy pot of the Department of Energy to transfer. The Department of Energy funding pot is used to develop environmentally friendly vehicles to promote. The money would the heavily damaged car manufacturers to use its electric car to build Chevrolet Volt. The total amount of requested funding will amount to 10.3 billion U.S. dollars.

At the GM Volt is not a pure electric car but a hybrid vehicle which has a normal internal combustion engine and electric motor. According to current plans, the vehicle during the second half of 2010 the production line. The Group has slept through the trend toward environmentally friendly fuel-efficient vehicles and had instead set for years on gas guzzlers like the Hummer SUV. The hybrid vehicle is to General Motors back in calmer water and lead to profitability. The GM Volt experts already received plenty of praise in advance and take these now come from the year probably accounts.

The range of the Volt is only with electric drive for 60 kilometers amount but only in the city. The electric drive is powered by a lithium-ion battery with power. One charge of the empty battery can be added at a normal wall socket and takes six hours. The fuel consumption is 4.7 liters per 100 kilometers driven, if the Volt runs only on petrol engine and forgotten to recharge their batteries.

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CityEL

The CityEL is the classic of the electric car models and a lightweight electric vehicle for transporting a person. So far, the most environmentally friendly car sold in Europe for over 5,000 times and therefore the best-selling electric car in its class.

In Germany and other European countries is considered CityEL car but can also be conducted as a light motor vehicle with a speed reduction. But the vehicle itself only has an insurance code may be present. In 1987, the CityEL was then under the name Mini-EL on the market. He has produced and developed by the Danish company EL AS Trans.

Four years later the company was taken over and moved the production to Germany. Today’s manufacturer is the AG Citycom and offers the lightweight electric vehicle models in the Basic and fun.

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