Avatar, a recycled electric car but not in theaters
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- 16/12/2022 17:15
The startup Avatar Mobilité, based in La Rochelle, is working on the city car of tomorrow, “ultra low carbon”, made from recycled materials and with a production cost not exceeding 15,000 euros per unit.
The small French company Avatar Mobilité has made the following observation. 31% of CO2 emissions in France come from transportation. But that’s not all. 60% of the vehicle fleet will be excluded from Low-Emission Zones (LEZ) by 2025. The urgency is therefore to find alternative solutions adapted to the rapid changes awaiting drivers in the coming years.
“The individual car as the sole means of transportation for all our types of travel is no longer relevant, economically and environmentally,” explains Frédéric Mourier, industrial designer and R&D manager on the Avatar project, “and it must be admitted that there is no fully efficient alternative for our local mobility needs, offering flexibility, real loading capacity, and meeting current ecological requirements. This was the starting point for our thinking about the Avatar project.”
A starting point for a very lightweight vehicle (around 300 kg), capable of reaching 90 km/h as maximum speed and with an electric range of 150 km. Considered a heavy quadricycle with an engine, the Avatar project is designed to carry two to four passengers and can support up to 350 kg of payload. The city car also uses recycled materials and will be largely recyclable, of course. This should particularly interest corporate fleets and SMEs.
An attractive price for the Avatar car
To test its future model, nothing beats the Port of La Rochelle, whose open sections to automobile traffic allowed the first prototype to take its first laps. According to Frédéric Mourier, “Avatar is a particularly virtuous car, a real alternative to reduce our environmental impact.” The company hopes to quickly open a factory and launch its model, at a price “close to 15,000 euros in initial unit production and 12,000 euros excluding taxes for small series“.
Source: Le Parisien
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