ECE delivers first electric VW Golf, 199 more to go

by Domenick Yoney (RSS feed) on Jan 27th 2009 at 5:14PM

The guys over at Electric Cars Europe (ECE) have finished the gas-to-electric conversion of the first of 200 Volkswagen Golfs they've been tasked to prepare for the Dutch energy supplier, ENEXIS (formerly known as Essent). The fleet, once it's ~~built~~ converted, is to be used in the testing of the Euro version of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) dubbed the "Mobile Smart Grid" (PDF). Information about the electro-Golf is scant, though it is said to be stuffed with enough lithium ion batteries to take it 300 Km (186 miles). That would make it one of the longest range conversions we've ever seen. The ECE team has plenty of experience converting cars and has more recently been doing gas-bypass surgery on Lotus Elises as well as a Proton Savvy on behalf of Detroit Electric. Thanks to Matthijs for the tip!

[Source: ZERAuto]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Volkswagen, Europe/EU

Tags: Detroit Electric, DetroitElectric, ECE, Electric Cars Europe ECE, ElectricCarsEuropeEce, ENEXIS, Essent, Mobile Smart Grid, MobileSmartGrid, V2G

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Darrel Smith 7:24PM (1/27/2009)

When is government and the car industry going to give us what we really need: Non plug-in electric cars? That's with radiant energy, space energy, energy from the vacumn, zero-point energy, or background energy.

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pachai 10:44AM (8/06/2009)

In most countries, Perpetual Motion cars are against the law.

According to Wikipedia,
"The law of conservation of energy, which states that
energy cannot be created or destroyed, implies that
such a perpetual motion machine cannot exist"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

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SBR Passaic 11:14AM (8/06/2009)

Since we can't get free energy (per the previous post),
plug-in cars is the next best thing. Won't satisfy
100% of the people. Pure Electric cars are good enough
for "only" 90% of the people.

Good work ECE

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