Where can I read about the all-injection molded, Canadian electric car?

Question

A colleague mentioned to me just now that there is a company in Canada which makes an electric car out of only 6 injection-molded parts.

Sounds great - but what's the name of the car, and do you know a link to see it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The Rocky Mountain Institute developed such a thing, they were looking to license it...see video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-uhKHy7...

Answer 2

Isn't it just the body that is made out of 6 injection-molded parts and not the whole thing.  

The only Canadian company I have heard about making electric cars is Toronto based  Feel Good Cars, doing business as Zenn Motor Co. (stock symbol on Toronto Venture exchange is ZNN.V, or Over the counter FGDCF.)

web site www.zenncars.com.

Now they only make a "neighborhood" car with a top speed of 25 mph but in the fall of 2009, they plan the cityZenn.  Hopefully, it will have a top speed of 80 mph, a range of 250 miles and a recharge time of less than 5 minutes.  Sounds good to me no matter how many parts the body is made from.

Answer 3

That makes absolutely no sense to injection mold complex pieces that large - - they'd have to re-cast the molds themselves so frequently that it really couldn't be cost effective.   The cost to make the molds at such precise tolerances would be prohibitive.

I think someone is selling you a bill of goods.

Answer 4

Now it is not Canadian, but the Hypercar is a carbon fibre body that looks like a Prius, and has been put together with battery and 4 wheel electric motors, a small motor to charge it up to get one back to a charging station. That combo can maintain 80 km/h for 300 km of driving. It delivers over 100 MPG when using the auxilliary motor-generator.

You would usually plan to charge the batteries at home and use the gas motor to charge it up if you could not reach a charging station (house with electricity) but you could drive about 30% of the time at 80 km/h, or nearly full time at 50 km/h.

They are not really in production. and need investors to even plan to get there.