Solo (car)
Encyclopedia
Solo is a Hungarian
hybrid car prototype
presented in summer 2008 and planned to enter mass production by 2012. It can reach 140 kilometres per hour, and consumes between 1.5 and two litres per 100 kilometres, has solar panels and foot pedals as auxiliary power sources, and can run on bio fuels. It is expected to not cost more than an average city car.
According to manufacturing company Antro Group's website carbon dioxide emissions of the prototypes Solo (3 seats) and Duo (six seats) will be 4,5-6.3 kg per 100 km (while the most modern car existing has CO2 emissions of 9-14 kg on 100 km, according to the same website), owing to minimum mass and air resistance. The smaller of the first two planned models SOLO weights 350 kg, family size DUO approximately 700 kg. (Part of the idea is to make the SOLO modular so that it can be linked to another vehicle to form a six-seater, thus creating a DUO out of two SOLOs.) Antro's prototype has been built using a light magnesium alloy/carbon fiber frame and body construction. The ultra-light vehicle is powered by a combination gasoline engine and lithium ion batteries. "When burning vegetable oil, alcohol, or synthetic, renewable fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide released is equal to the amount the plant already absorbed during its growth as part of the agrienergetic cycle." Photovoltaic cells incorporated in the roof provide the power for the electric hub motors at each wheel and although the current model doesn't have one yet, the designers are aiming to install a fuel engine to give a longer range than the roughly 20 kilometres that the electric motors currently provide.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
hybrid car prototype
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.The word prototype derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον , "primitive form", neutral of πρωτότυπος , "original, primitive", from πρῶτος , "first" and τύπος ,...
presented in summer 2008 and planned to enter mass production by 2012. It can reach 140 kilometres per hour, and consumes between 1.5 and two litres per 100 kilometres, has solar panels and foot pedals as auxiliary power sources, and can run on bio fuels. It is expected to not cost more than an average city car.
According to manufacturing company Antro Group's website carbon dioxide emissions of the prototypes Solo (3 seats) and Duo (six seats) will be 4,5-6.3 kg per 100 km (while the most modern car existing has CO2 emissions of 9-14 kg on 100 km, according to the same website), owing to minimum mass and air resistance. The smaller of the first two planned models SOLO weights 350 kg, family size DUO approximately 700 kg. (Part of the idea is to make the SOLO modular so that it can be linked to another vehicle to form a six-seater, thus creating a DUO out of two SOLOs.) Antro's prototype has been built using a light magnesium alloy/carbon fiber frame and body construction. The ultra-light vehicle is powered by a combination gasoline engine and lithium ion batteries. "When burning vegetable oil, alcohol, or synthetic, renewable fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide released is equal to the amount the plant already absorbed during its growth as part of the agrienergetic cycle." Photovoltaic cells incorporated in the roof provide the power for the electric hub motors at each wheel and although the current model doesn't have one yet, the designers are aiming to install a fuel engine to give a longer range than the roughly 20 kilometres that the electric motors currently provide.
External links
- Antro Group company website, available in English, French and Hungarian http://www.solo-duo.hu/
- Solo - magyar hibrid lehet a jövő autója (in Hungarian)http://origo.hu/auto/20080616-solo-magyar-hibridauto-bemutato.html
- Hungarian "Solo" concept car, super-light and super-ecological http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Hungarian_Solo_concept_car_super-light_and_super-ecological_999.html
- Hungary's ANTRO Debuts Solo Hybrid http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=18476
- Antro SOLO human-electric-hybrid aims for double the fun http://www.gizmag.com/antro-solo-electric-hybrid-prototype/14420/