12/25/11

Honda EV-ster is a compact sports car with an open roof design

TOKYO - Honda claims the Honda EV-ster able to run up to a maximum speed of 160 km / h and can accelerate from 0-60 km / h in a matter of time of 5.0 seconds.

One of Honda's flagship concept cars at Tokyo Motor Show event held just a while ago, the Honda EV-ster is rumored to not only be just a mere concept car. For Honda plans will soon be producing this car.

As reported by German media, Auto Motor und Sport and quoted by Motor Authority, Friday (12/16/2011), Honda says ready to mass produce cars ni.

CEO of Honda, Takanobu Ito revealed that the new sports cars from Japanese car manufacturers are likely to be released with such a model roadster concept car combines an electric or gasoline engines.

And to see the production version, the lovers of this brand in the German media is not necessarily wait too long. Reportedly because the production version of EV-ster was to be launched early next year.

Honda ambitious step is the realization of Honda's plan to launch hybrid cars and electricity to reduce the average production of C02 emissions worldwide by 30 percent compared with 2000. With the 2020 target of realizing 'the blue sky.'

In the model concept, the Honda EV-ster is a compact sports car with an open roof design that is able to travel a distance of 160 km just before the lithium-ion rechargeable battery strength.

Dimensions has a length of 3400 mm, width 1480 mm, and height of 1100 mm and wheelbase of 2325 mm.

For the engine, Honda engine drowned 3 cylinder capacity of 660 cc and capable of producing power by 63 bhp. Conventional engine was then mated to an electric motor-powered 58 kW. Both the energy to drive the rear wheels (rear-wheel-drive).