KIA RAY EV
Kia Ray EV Kia’s aboriginal electric car gets 68bhp, an 86-mile ambit and 2,500 will be produced per year
Kia has appear its aboriginal electric car, the Ray EV, based carefully on the petrol-powered Ray which went on auction in Korea endure month. The zero-emissions city-limits car can biking 86 afar on a individual allegation and takes six hours to top up the batteries from a accepted socket.
Power from the 68bhp electric motor is beatific to the foreground auto through a individual acceleration gearbox. Weighing 187kg added that the petrol model, but with 167Nm of torque from aught rpm, the Ray EV covers 0-62mph in 15.9 abnormal and hits a top acceleration of 81mph.
Inside, it appearance a sat-nav arrangement optimised for EVs. The seven-inch awning provides advice on the area of charging stations and a annular outline on the map assuming the best accessible range. A different apparatus array shows actual ambit and array status.
To acquaint pedestrians if it’s approaching, the Ray EV is adapted with a Virtual Engine Sound Arrangement (VESS). At speeds beneath 12mph, and if in reverse, it emits a soundtrack recorded from a petrol-powered car.
During 2012 Kia will body 2,500 Ray EVs, which will be provided to Government departments and accessible offices as allotment of a abiding analysis activity into electric cars. There are no accepted affairs to accompany the boxlike EV to the UK, although the acquaint abstruse actuality will access all Kia’s approaching electric vehicles.
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