Zerotracer
The Zero tracer is a cabin scooters and light electric scooter for two people. The vehicle was developed in Winterthur to participate in the Zero Emissions Race. The competition was launched under the auspices of UNEP on 16 August 2010 against the Palace of Nations in Geneva and also ended there on 24 February 2011 after 80 days of driving - presumably after the journey described by Jules Verne. This was also the time to participate as winner of the race at the Geneva Motor Show.
Zero Emission Race
The acid test for the three target achieved vehicles led over Brussels, Berlin, Kiev and Moscow to Chelyabinsk, near the border with Kazakhstan. From Almaty led the route continues to Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China. From Shanghai was reached from there embarked for Vancouver, was driven from where the west coast Mexico to appear at the World Climate Summit in Cancun. After the shipment across the Atlantic the final section of Casablanca to Geneva was put under the wheels.
The Zero tracer reached during the race with the most points is the winner. A single - then unassailable - interruption resulted from a collision with a cyclist in Vancouver, as that changed his track without expecting a near silent vehicle.
Services
At an average speed of 80 km / h 7 kWh per 100 km are consumed. According home page of this value is reached even at 100 km / h. This corresponds to an actual sixth of the programs proposed by the EU's effectiveness by 2015. The maximum speed of the vehicle is electronically limited at 240, would be possible from the 135 kW over 300 km / h Due to the small cross section of the vehicle Zero tracer reaches a drag coefficient, which is inaccessible to four-wheeled car, also due to the low curb weight, the rolling resistance is also lower. During the race, however, played the air resistance on the Asian parts of the track certainly a lesser role; the design had to prove himself there on the side of reliability and did so successfully: The continuous stretch from Geneva to Shanghai was without a single interruption covered by a breakdown.
Concept and Development
The basic construction of this vehicle goes back to the MonoTracer of Peraves. Based on that name (such as " Einspurer " translate ), the results suggest that there is much more to a Single track car than a motorcycle. If we consider all other models under electric motorcycle and motorcycle becomes clear that the Zero Tracer has very little relationship with those ( even half as long vehicles ): Three -point seat belts, foot brake pedal and those very feet never on the ground and thus always dry - indicate properties of a designated car as hitherto vehicle type. It also corresponds to a vehicle, in which are structural elements of a low energy vehicle used " outside of city traffic ."
In design work, the Zero Tracer shows as an internal project and as a matter of the heart, which is not given out of hand. This successful Zero tracer to follow an even more refined version. Already the world tour vehicle had the full street legal with three-point seat belts and all the comfort elements. This as opposed to the solar taxi, the first circumnavigation of the world by a solar vehicle. It goes without saying that one then but about whether one should need the heater if you can but need those power on such a trip also to get ahead.
The body is constructed of Kevlar composites. The PSI batteries are supplied with the control electronics of three rock from Switzerland, while the main sponsor, Oerlikon Solar supplied both components of OC Oerlikon and the current for the circumnavigation of the world from their PV system. The engine comes from BRUSA Elektronik AG, from Mountain forest in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley, bringing the MonoTracer large majority a Swiss product.