Mycar

The Innovech MyCar is a micro car of the brand Innovech, which car model and car brand is now both the American company WM GreenTech Automotive Corp.. . include

Model and Corporate Development

The concept of the mini-car MyCar included a car for the big city traffic. The development of activities towards this car began to take concrete shape in 2002 when the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Milan School of Design in a joint project, the first prototypes designed and built for it. For the Italian side, Italdesign brought under the direction of Giorgetto Giugiaro in the project. As the Hong Kong Polytechnic University spin-off project in 2003 Innovech International Ltd. in the year. established that. companies of the Kingdom Fine Metal Ltd and the Jingmei Group was proportionally with capital and know -how. The freshly baked company was entrusted with the marketing of the car. The Hong Kong government took this as opportunity to promote the city as a center for design innovation, and put 2 million Hong Kong dollars ready to commercialize the MyCar. The Kingdom Group, based in Hong Kong, and the Jingmei Group, headquartered in Beijing, working in the metal and plastics processing. Innovech International, the company recently founded then presented the model with revised design concept at the Bologna Motor Show in December 2003. After the production preparations, combined with a variety of difficulties, the start of production of the model finally began in the second quarter of 2006 in Hong Kong. In the same year was renamed the International Innovech EuAuto Technology Limited. Due to high demand, the MyCar, however, was represented initially only in markets of the Southeast Asian region. Since 2008, the MyCar including for export to France, Great Britain and Austria is made in the work of EuAuto Technology Limited. This export models hot EuAuto CV.2 and EuAuto CV.4. You can recognize these by the MyCar symbol on the front of cars. In October 2009 EuAuto Technology Limited finally brought an electric version of the MyCar into mass production.

In the spring of 2010, then the American company WM GreenTech Automotive Corp.. from Tysons Corner Hong Kong-based EuAuto Technology Limited at a price of 100 million Hong Kong dollars ( 13 million U.S. dollars ) were purchased.

WM GreenTech Automotive Corp.. plans to manufacture the electric version of the MyCar, which had been hitherto produced only in small series in mass production. ; a factory plant of the subsidiary GreenTech Automotive Incorporated, located in Tunica County, Mississippi / United States, shall be used except for the production of hybrid cars for the mass production of MyCar from 2014 supposedly. In order to keep the price of MyCar low, to some of the required components from low-cost countries such as China, are imported into the United States. Analysts consider the feasibility of the ambitious plan with skepticism. But first to the production in the U.S. due to commence on 31 October 2011 in a rented facility in Horn Lake in the U.S. state of Mississippi. This provisional temporary site should be used as long as until the facility is completed in Tunica County. After planning the manufacturing and assembly hall to be completed in Tunica in April 2014.

In summer 2011 it was announced that WM GreenTech Automotive Corp.. in a joint venture with the Chinese investment company Shenyang Zhongrui Investment Co. to build a car factory in Ordos in Inner Mongolia is attacking. Pre- Plant is the construction of 300,000 production units per year. The new joint venture company to Ordos GreenTech Automotive Co. hot. Analysts said last doubts as to the development strategy of the company and the skills of his boss Terence McAuliffe. McAuliffe has made the management of the company to someone else the end of 2012.

The MyCar Project

The aim of the MyCar project was to create a vehicle that is suited to the traffic of large cities. The construction was designed so that deriving from the ever increasing traffic chaos larger tendency to wear the components is counteracted on the vehicle due to robust design. Pursuant to the guidelines Italdesign developed the entire vehicle concept, with Giorgetto Giugiaro took over the car's design. The design was presented by Italdesign in 2003. After they built the vehicle model on an extruded steel chassis. To prevent rust damage, the decision was made following a plastic body. The lightweight plastic plates produced by thermoforming build on the steel chassis and a reinforced aluminum Rohrramen. Depending on the body shape there is the model as a single unit or as a convertible with a removable hardtop. With the hardtop version, there is also the possibility to have installed Senktüren. In this election, the entry only on an increased parapet is possible to compare with that of beach buggies. The door itself is inserted into a corresponding dado paneling. During the trip, this can therefore also like to be left open times. Direct competitor of the MyCar, the smart fortwo. Formerly were also the smart forfour and the comparable smart crossblade the model as a direct competitor against. Furthermore represent all possible two-seater microcars competitors, such as some models of the company Aixam from France and the like. As a commercial vehicle, the MyCar is also as an extended Van version and as a mini - Pickup for election. The bulbous design of the MyCar is designed only as a protective factor in accidents and to act a little more sporty by 6 -spoke 15 - inch alloy wheels.

The rear-wheel motorized MyCar is driven by air-cooled single-cylinder gasoline engines. The entry model to check out the 4 -kW 50 cc version. On request, powerful engines are available with 125, 150, 180 and 250 cc available. The maximum speeds of MyCars begin at 45 km / h and end at 85 km / h with the top engine. Because of the low speed only a two -speed manual is used by the manufacturer. An electric version, there was initially a long time only as a concept car. A planned series production of the same was allowed because of lack of interest initially fall, but ultimately was taken later in October 2009 attack. The engine power is 5.15 kW, the range of lead -gel batteries 115 km; the maximum speed is 66 km / h The price for this electric version is 97,000 Hong Kong dollars. Alternatively, the company continued to hybrid engines, which are based on the standard engine options offered by the company and have the same performance characteristics.

The interior is also a construction of Italdesign. The dashboard includes only one tank and a speed indicator. The seat is fixedly connected to the steel frame. To protect only three-point seat belts are used for driver and passenger. An MP3 port is in MyCar standard. To store a storage compartment is in the dashboard. In the doors and nets are available. For larger storage needs, such as the presence of Einkaufsgut and luggage, there is a front trunk as the Volkswagen Beetle.

Production began in the first year (2006) in Hong Kong, with 1,000 units; the current number is at a maximum working load of 2,000 units. Even a car factory in Dongguan in Guangdong province, China in mainland China is already in operation; the production of small series there should be continued.

EuAuto

The versions of EuAuto were designed again by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Here, the MyCar got only a slight facelift. For Europe, also the safety technology of the model has been revised so that the body has adapted for other dimensions and also the European safety standards. Contrary to the built version for Southeast Asia, the two models have a more modern interior.

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