A name that defines a strict technical framework: a weight below 400 pounds and a power that does not exceed 15 kilowatts or 21 horsepower, which allowed him to borrow the de facto highway. Calaisian models are hybrid electric-gasoline, with a peculiarity: the engine is only fueling the generator and batteries when they are flat. A system called range extender, which solves the problem of low self-electric cars and has earned Damien Biro received the grand prize at the Concours Lépine 2009.
General Motors is also working on this principle and has established in its Chevrolet Volt sedan for the U.S. market and Opel Ampera for Europe which will begin marketing in the second half of 2011.
Because they use a petrol engine vehicles Écomobilys are not zero emission of CO2 but are nonetheless considered “clean” because they emit less than 50 g / km of CO2. Damien Biro has also attended the roundtable chaired by Nicolas Sarkozy and attended by top executives of the automobile as Carlos Ghosn, president of the Renault-Nissan. “I felt a strong tendency to unite around the industrial electric vehicle,” he explains. But in this meeting, it was a question of “big” cars like Peugeot and Renault Fluence iOn exceeding 100 km / h. The manufacturer Calais pulled him a positive preliminary assessment of his first days in the World: “It was good contacts with professionals but also individuals who live on islands. “At the point of considering a presence at the next Geneva Motor Show in Frankfurt in March or September. •
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