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2008 Mazda 2 evME by Energetique Review

December 2008
Filed under: MAZDA Car News | MAZDA Headlines

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The first prototype of Armidale’s electric car was launched in Armidale today with the new owner Howard Eastwood from Glen Innes taking the keys from Member for Northern Tablelands Richard Torbay.

The appropriately bright green evMe – Energetique digital electric model, with a Mazda body wrapped around some of the world’s most advanced technology, can reach a speed of 130kph and travel 250kms before it needs recharging.

“It’s a remarkable outcome for the local team and it’s no ugly duckling either,” Mr Torbay said. “It is incredibly difficult to start a project like this from scratch and reflects an enormous amount of work over the last four years.

“Australians are great at innovation but the environment for supporting them to production phase in not as good as overseas. Despite the difficulty CEO Phil Coop and the team have preserved and they already have orders for 100 more cars. It shows we can do it from our own back yard.”

Dr Coop told guests at the launch his company planned to assemble 100 cars in Armidale next year. Bodies and parts are all imported and a team of ten will build the vehicles, expected to sell for around $70,000.

The technology is the most advanced in the world sourced from Germany, Switzerland and South Korea,” he said.

“The components are unique and we are already planning to fit them into a delivery van and a sports roadster.”

Nursing the keys of the car he could not drive away immediately. Mr Eastwood said he hoped to have it on the road by Christmas.

“I promised myself an electric car for my 70th birthday this year,” he said. “I have looked at models from India and also drove an electric car in England. It was not until a friend contacted me about Energetique I found I could have the most advanced model right here at home.”

The Glen Innes businessman has arranged to connect three phase power at the Jackadgery caravan park, to charge his new car between his home town and Grafton.

He is also planning an inaugural drive from Armidale NSW to Armadale Victoria to replicate in part the first trip by a steam car from Bathurst to Melbourne.

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