Venturi, the famous French sport cars manufacturer and Citroen, announced that have joined forces in order to supply a small number of electric vehicles based on the Citroen Berlingo to the French Post Office.
The cars will be modified to fit the electric motor, battery and other EV components. According to the manufacturers the electric vans will be capable of travelling 100 kilometers without recharge, a good autonomy if we think that the vans will only be used in cities like Paris or Lyon.
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Venturi launched the Venturi -an electric powered roadster with 240 Hp and 220 Nm- and the Eclectic - a solar-powered vehicle- concept cars last year at the Paris Motor Show. But the two models won’t just remain concepts; in the spring of 2008 both will go into production.
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By presenting the first desirable electric vehicle at the 2004 Paris Motorshow, Venturi created on the one hand a new segment, that of the electric sports car, and on the other hand carried an extremely positive message for the future of the automobile, composed of high performance and driving pleasure.
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3-seater wind powered vehicle, made by Venturi, ready to hit European showrooms and dealerships. AutoExpress
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Rumors turn out to be true – EVO MR comes to England. AutoExpress
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Pricing for GMC Acadia. GMC
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Delphi’s ex-execs bound to face civil fraud lawsuit. DetNews
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Legal bills up to $58 million for Delphi. DetNews
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The new 5-in-1 Tool made by SwissTech for car –related emergencies. PR
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Team Saleen/Oreca’s S7R takes both pole-position and first places in Le Mans. Internal
Soaring gas prices, economic crises, wars, omnipresent pollution, irreversible changes in the climate… Our world is going through a period when the stakes in terms of energy form the very basis for worldwide chaos. While admitting that no solution for energy production can be perfect, we must become fully aware of the imperative need to limit our own personal consumption of energy.
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The Venturi Héritage completed its first test drive on the Paul Ricard circuit on 7th and 8th March with Olivier Beretta at the wheel in the official tests of the FIA GT3 championship. This presence on the track on the planned date consolidates all the efforts undertaken by the Gyrfalcon Brand since announcing its return to competition as part of the FIA GT3 European Championship.
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The world’s ten most expensive automobiles include such dreams-come-true as a street-legal, ten-cylinder Porsche race car (the Carrera GT); an electric car with a 300-hp motor ( Venturi’s Fetish sports car, which just went on sale) and cars with over 1,000 hp each (
Bugatti’s Veyron 16.4 and
SSC’s
Ultimate Aero).
These kinds of cars make
Ferraris and Aston Martins look like relative bargains; despite their fame, they are much cheaper than the cars on our list. Of the ten most expensive (
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Venturi Fetish = The Green Revolution
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