Volkswagen is expected to reveal a new, single-seat electric vehicle concept car at the forthcoming Frankfurt Motor Show along with new Up! small car.
The car maker’s head of research Jürgen Leohold told the Financial Times, that the experimental car will show how the firm intends to make cars which are genuinely ‘zero carbon emissions’ by providing energy plans to compliment their electric vehicles.
“It’s a new kind of mobility – a new vehicle concept,” Mr Leohold told the publication. “Also, it’s physics. If you limit a car to one person, you can make it smaller, less weight, you need less energy to transport the person, and then obviously … it can be better on CO2 and fuel efficiency”.
Mr Leohold told the paper that the single-seater concept car will be unveiled in just weeks (as such we expect that it will debut in Frankfurt) and is designed for urban use rather than for longer journeys. However he stop short of detailing range, power and top speed data, saying that that would be revealed along with the car; in the near future.
The model, along with other electric cars the firm has planned for launch over the next couple of years, will be made available with a renewable energy plan, to combat criticism that electric cars are not really zero emission, thanks to the source of electricity that they are usually dependent on.
Volkswagen also has plans to launch an electric version of the Golf and the forthcoming city segment up! car by 2013.
While details on the new single seat vehicle are sketchy at the moment, we’ll bring you the full details when we find out more.
