With the conjunction of Detroit Electric and Proton, debut the Gen2 and Persona based electric car. Lately the Detroit Electric has signed strategic licensing and contract assembly agreement with the Proton to make electric powered cars which claimed will be producing 40,000 vehicles a year under the license for four years. The model will go on sale in Europe in the first quarter of 2010 and third quarter in US. We are looking forward to this whole new project to boot the Malaysia’s national car brand.
The both Gen2 and Persona Model will be using Lithium Polymer bateries, which makes the Detroit Electric the second manufacturer to use such technology on production vehicle after Hyundai Kia group. Both are with 25kWh and 40kWh capacity, which was claimed to get over 2,000 charge cycles and to be consired as a lifetime cycle batteries. As for charging, the 40kWh is said to take over 10 hours to get 80% of charge on a regular 13 A 240 V household socket.
The Detroit Electric also says that an estimated price tag for the US market cars will be US $23,000 and US $33,000 for both model, too much from what expected before. However, we will wait for the latest new regarding this electric car very soon.
