Venturi America The Electric Buggy

Presented at the 2010 World Cup, the Venturi
America is back in 2012 with a unique hue
and various adjustments

Concepts manufacturer Monaco are often strange, but not always very exciting. With one notable exception: the electric buggy as we see mature from room to room.

To be a little bit fun driving an electric car, there was so far the Tesla Roadster, displayed more than € 100,000. Now, there will also be the Venturi America.
The chassis of this strict two-seater as its body are bee polyamide coated carbon nests, despite this, not corny weighs less than 1425 kg! We dream a few seconds to read the data sheet as the propulsion engine is a whopping 10,500 revolutions / minute. But it has nothing special, since it runs on electricity. It develops the equivalent of 300 hp and 400 Nm of torque (constant 0-5000 rpm), and allows a top speed of 200 km / h. A quick way to drain the battery, whose autonomy does not exceed 300 km when travels only 90 km / h. In addition, the battery-Polymer Lithium-Ion recharges in 4 hours on a dedicated terminal.

This two-seater electric buggy is not afraid
to leave the bitumen

One that the press Venturi defined as "elevated sports," the vocation vaguely off-road had already been unveiled at Paris 2010. But it has its roots further. At the beginning of the 2000s, Gildo Pastor, who had just bought the brand Xavier de la Chapelle, decided to produce a roadster powered by a 2.0 taken from PSA and Renault. But he was finally at the Paris Salon in 2002, unveiled an electric version in extremis. Announced initially around € 35,000, this Fetish had finally seen as a marketing perspective is stated, more than ten times its price! I bet that 10 years later, as the spirits industry will be better prepared.

 The front has remained close to the Fetish, the first electric sports car created by Venturi.

 Stern simply two tiny round lights.

 The rear wheels may curb some enthusiasm when the asphalt disappears.

The headlights of the Venturi America opted for diodes.