Frankfurt Motor Show - Opel EV

[Wraith]

Looks interesting :)

http://www.carsales.com.au/news/2011/small-passenger/frankfurt-motor-show-budget-opel-ev-26620

[hazrd]

looks..um.... weird lol

[ChrisMaz]

Looks stupid like every other Future Concept EV.

[hazrd]

I cant see that passing Australian regs if it were to come here aswell !

[Bloodnok]

Wow. That design sure is 'out there'. I quite like the front end. For the back end, I think they were going for 'like a motorbike', but got the scale wrong. I'm not sure if they've achieved the look they were after, and I don't particularly like what they did come up with...

BTW, the reference to 45km/h and learning at 16 in the article isn't applicable here - it's a reference to a European law which classifies a light four wheel vehicle as a "quadricycle" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorised_quadricycle) rather than a car, which can be legally driven on a moped license in a number of European countries, and also means they don't have to meet a bunch of other car constructional regulations.

If the power levels are down at the levels required for a quadricycle (<15kW), it would have a significantly lower power to weight ratio than a Tata nano, and could hardly be described as 'brisk'. I would suspect a separate low power version for any quadricycle regulation compatibility...

[btm]

weird, but interesting none the less