The Venturi Eclectic is an electric powered car that makes use of many basis of renewable energy in a design that captures the vital elements for sustainable move for the future. The Eclectic seats three people and is intended and built by Venturi Automobiles of Monaco. It is powered by three sources of energy: Plug-In, Solar, and Wind powered energy and plugging it in takes 5 hours to charge the batteries totally.
The entire roof of the Eclectic is covered with 2.5 m2 of solar panels that can produce up to 330 W of charging power. Venturi advertises that the solar charging ability is sufficient to give 7km (4.4 miles) of distance travel/day in high solar intensity regions. For windy regions, the optional wind powered generator that is increased on the Venturi Eclectic while parked, can give up to 15km (8.8 miles) of travel/day through charge.
The Venturi Eclectic comes normal with LV-7 nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries that have a cycle life of 2500 charges. The electric motor is rate at 16kW power output. The most speed of the Eclectic is governed electronically at 50 km/h (31.2 mph) and the variety is 50 km (31.2 miles) on a full charge.
Venturi is selling the Eclectic as a limited production of 200 cars in total for its first production run. At a list price of 24000 Euros it is really quite a good buy to get this degree of custom engineering at this price. Prospective purchasers will need to check with Venturi Motors to prove the Eclectic’s compliance with their own country’s vehicle licensing regulations.
The entire roof of the Eclectic is covered with 2.5 m2 of solar panels that can produce up to 330 W of charging power. Venturi advertises that the solar charging ability is sufficient to give 7km (4.4 miles) of distance travel/day in high solar intensity regions. For windy regions, the optional wind powered generator that is increased on the Venturi Eclectic while parked, can give up to 15km (8.8 miles) of travel/day through charge.
The Venturi Eclectic comes normal with LV-7 nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries that have a cycle life of 2500 charges. The electric motor is rate at 16kW power output. The most speed of the Eclectic is governed electronically at 50 km/h (31.2 mph) and the variety is 50 km (31.2 miles) on a full charge.
Venturi is selling the Eclectic as a limited production of 200 cars in total for its first production run. At a list price of 24000 Euros it is really quite a good buy to get this degree of custom engineering at this price. Prospective purchasers will need to check with Venturi Motors to prove the Eclectic’s compliance with their own country’s vehicle licensing regulations.
