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The global rush green technology could be setting the stage for a most unusual return symbol often ridiculed smelly Trabant of East Germany Communist, disappeared from German roads after the Berlin Wall fell there 20 years, but now his makers plan to introduce an electric version of the economic climate Trabi, as it is affectionately called.
It will be an electric car with a solar panel roof, designed for the city and small trips, Ronald Gerschewski, Chief IndiKar, the original manufacturer Trabi, told reporters See the history of the electric car.
The original Trabant was to be Germany's answer to the Volkswagen Beetle, the symbol of the miracle and place after the Second West Germany's economic World War But the Trabant was more of a mockery He had a plastic body and was driven by a two-stroke engine that ran an oil cocktail and gasoline that emitted a putrid smell wheelchair with a characteristic clackety-clack along the roads East Germany Read the Beetle in the most important moment of cars of all time.
The new Trabi will feature the most modern comforts such as connections for GPS navigation, mobile phones and even an iPod, Gerschewski said.
We think it will appeal to drivers who want something sustainable and stylish, said Daniel Stiegler, a spokesman for Herpa Miniaturmodelle, the Bavarian company plans to stage the return of the Trabi as a green machine See the 50 worst cars of all time.
Herpa is the German equivalent of Matchbox cars, models of real cars that can snugly in the hands of small children, he bought the rights to the name Trabi it a few years ago and made a line trabis toddler Now Herpa wants to market a new Trabi as a retro design element for a green, customer fashion conscious It plans to unveil a prototype next month at the International motor Show in Frankfurt View Fair the best cars of the Auto Detroit 2009.
Just Ap gag or made a new electro-Trabi have a chance to rise from the cold ashes of history to rule the roads in Germany remains to be seen, but the dream of an electric autobahn clearly takes the hand in Germany German government last week unveiled a national development plan to put one million electric cars on the road by 2020, committing to provide 715 million national economic stimulus plan to funding for research and development part the plan provides for the development of an electric filling station network along German roads with tall sockets for electric car owners to charge their vehicles.
Our goal is to make Germany the leading market for electric mobility, Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told reporters in Berlin, he unveiled the plan Read German court upholds ban on extra names -longs.
Officials of the Trabi aren t the only German car manufacturers have the dream of electric cars Volkswagen said it will launch an electric car by 2013, while Daimler, the gas guzzling limos powerful manufacturer Mercedes-Benz, teamed up with electric utility RWE for a series of tests electric cars in Berlin.
Many German commentators have seen the government's announcement a little more than a gimmick pr policy again, the Liberal S ddeutsche Zeitung saw the announcement as a sign of how the technology once considered a pipe dream moved firmly in the mainstream of public debate electric cars are no longer a subject for madmen, but the government a million of these cars should be zipping along German roads by 2020, the government is the instigator a revolution, the newspaper wrote last week Read Electric Cars China Power Play.
A million electric cars may seem a big deal since there are only 1452 of these vehicles on German roads today But Germany registers more than 3 7 million new cars annually Although the government achieved its goal it still affect only 2 cars in the German streets, wrote cars daily Berliner Zeitung Electric, in the foreseeable future, remain a niche product for years huge sums have been invested in fuel cells or hydrogen cars, but no viable cars have appeared on the German market the government may be hoping its investment in research on electric vehicles will change that.
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