Johannesburg – Metair has revealed two unique and completely homebuilt electric cars - the Met-Elec-R60.
In July last year‚ Metair launched the internal project with the aim of producing an economical electric car for under a bill of materials cost of R60 000 per vehicle and inside of four months.
Additionally‚ the project set out to use the company’s proprietary start/stop battery technology as its fundamental power source and to incorporate the extensive skills‚ equipment and other technologies housed across its subsidiary companies in South Africa‚ it said on Thursday.
First National Battery and Supreme Springs led the collaborative response across the Group and from the outset the decision was taken to produce two base-vehicle source options - one as a retro-fit of an old vehicle‚ while the other was designed and built from scratch.
Smiths Plastics & Automold was responsible for the retrofit vehicle.
Both cars were presented at the company’s managing director’s conference in early November 2012‚ after being produced on time and within the budget and both vehicles will be on public display at Metair’s 2012 annual financial results presentation in Sadnton on Monday March 18.
Metair CE Theo Loock said: “The Met-Elec-R60 project is a great success. We did not do it to exploit commercial opportunities and we achieved all our goals within a precise time period and without impacting on any employee’s day-to-day responsibilities.
"Management and associates from across the Group worked together to design and build the vehicles using different and complementary technologies‚ housed across a number of our subsidiary companies.”
In July last year‚ Metair launched the internal project with the aim of producing an economical electric car for under a bill of materials cost of R60 000 per vehicle and inside of four months.
Additionally‚ the project set out to use the company’s proprietary start/stop battery technology as its fundamental power source and to incorporate the extensive skills‚ equipment and other technologies housed across its subsidiary companies in South Africa‚ it said on Thursday.
First National Battery and Supreme Springs led the collaborative response across the Group and from the outset the decision was taken to produce two base-vehicle source options - one as a retro-fit of an old vehicle‚ while the other was designed and built from scratch.
Smiths Plastics & Automold was responsible for the retrofit vehicle.
Both cars were presented at the company’s managing director’s conference in early November 2012‚ after being produced on time and within the budget and both vehicles will be on public display at Metair’s 2012 annual financial results presentation in Sadnton on Monday March 18.
Metair CE Theo Loock said: “The Met-Elec-R60 project is a great success. We did not do it to exploit commercial opportunities and we achieved all our goals within a precise time period and without impacting on any employee’s day-to-day responsibilities.
"Management and associates from across the Group worked together to design and build the vehicles using different and complementary technologies‚ housed across a number of our subsidiary companies.”