http://www.costaricantimes.com/costa-rica-to-manufacture-1st-electric-vehicle/23030 Costa Rica to Manufacture 1st Electric Vehicle? By Danny King December 3, 2013 green.autoblog.com
[image http://www.costaricantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CambYoCar-1.jpg CambYoCar ] Costa Rica News - Well, they’ve got plenty of balsa wood, so that’s a start. Costa Rica-based inventor Jesse Blenn is spreading the word of what he says will be the first car designed and built in the country, and it will have an electrified powertrain of some sort. CambYoCar, the brainchild of the ex-airline mechanic, will be relatively inexpensive because it will be made out of a combination of balsa wood and aluminum, keeping the price in the $18,000 range and the vehicle light. A svelte body is always good for hybrids or electric vehicles even those that (in mini prototype form, at least) look a bit like a scrunched up DeLorean. Costa Rican officials love the idea of a locally made, cheap hybrid or electric vehicle because of their goal to make the nation carbon-neutral – and the fact that many of the cars there are decades old and of the smoke-spewing variety. Until now, Costa Rica hasn’t shown much interest in advanced-powertrain vehicles. Of the approximately 80,000 new and used vehicles (with a 50/50 split) imported to the country each year, just 40 or so are hybrids. Undaunted, Blenn has earmarked an old guava jelly plant for the car’s production ... [© 2013 The Costa Rican Times] http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-18k-CambYoCar-hybrid-or-electric-models-balsa-wood-aluminum-tp4666497.html EVLN: $18k CambYoCar, hybrid or electric models, balsa-wood & aluminum For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: $180M in Orders for ABB Azipod e-motors for Cruise Ships EVLN: Hanoi, Old Quarter, electric cars, rush hour, congestion + EVLN: Stretchla, The world’s most bad-ass electric camper {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-CambYoCar-Costa-Rica-s-Svelte-EV-tp4666607.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
