Electric carmaker, Think is celebrating its city EV being named as one of the ‘100 best ideas of the year’.
Spanish magazine Actualidad Económica, a leader in the fields of economics and business dubbed the electric vehicle as one of the top ideas of the year as part of its annual awards.
Presenting the accolade to THINK’s Spanish distribution partner, Going Green, the magazine congratulated the company, a national leader in the distribution of electric vehicles, for promoting and selling so successfully one of the very few electric vehicles now on sale in Spain: the Think City.
Thanks to its market leading range, safety and performance, Actualidad Economica placed the Scandinavian EV among its 100 brilliant ideas of the year, and named it “the vehicle at the forefront of the national and international EV market.”
The Think City was also short-listed for its significant contribution to environmental responsibility: it does not emit polluting gases or any significant noise, and has a high degree of recyclability: 16 per cent of its materials come from recycling and 95 per cent are recyclable, including the whole of the vehicle’s interior.
The THINK City is also the vehicle of choice for a new BBC documentary – Electric Ride – currently being broadcast around the world and following an intrepid BBC team as they drive their way 4,000 miles around a dozen European countries in an electric vehicle.
The team’s progress can be followed by tuning into Radio 4 on Saturdays at 1030hrs (BST / GMT +1) for four weeks from 19 June, or by logging on to BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/electric-ride).
The latest generation THINK City is a all-electric car can travel at highway speeds and cover 160 kilometres on a single charge (via conventional household outlet). It is the world’s first EV to be granted certification with the European CE conformity mark and EU homologation requirements (M1 certificate).
European production of the THINK City is underway in Finland with manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive, which also assembles the Boxster and Cayman models for Porsche AG. Customer deliveries are taking place across Europe in selected key EV markets such as The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland.
