From €0.23 per hour
Are electric cars necessarily expensive? The English company Helixx thinks otherwise. Especially for growth markets, the ambitious newcomer has four tiny electric commercial vehicles in the pipeline, which also include an electric TukTuk-like one.
The English company Helixx mainly wants to provide growth markets with relatively cheap electric transport. The company intends to offer four electric company cars via a subscription construction whereby the user can rent a car from as little as €0.23 per hour. The electric workhorses must be produced locally in what it calls Helixx Mobility Hubs. According to the English, these production locations are scalable and modular and are shipped in parts to where they should eventually be. According to Helixx, this can be done ‘almost anywhere in the world.’ The Hubs must then be operated by ‘local partners’.
Helixx envisions a line-up of four models initially. The Cargo is a compact van for last-mile delivery with up to 2,100 liters of luggage space. The Truck is a small pick-up and the Tuk and Ride are successively open and closed cars that can be used for passenger transport. Four people should fit in both versions. The top speed of the Tuk and Ride is 80 km/h and they should be able to travel 113 kilometers on a full battery. Helixx also talks about an optional 12 kWh battery that increases the range to 200 kilometers. Helixx’s commercial vehicle designers come from – mind you – both Apollo and DeTomaso.
According to Helixx, it contributes with its little ones to making people and companies (affordably) mobile, while at the same time contributing to the reduction of air pollution. But, charging the little ones won’t be a problem? Not according to Helixx. It has devised battery exchange stations where the LFP batteries of the electric models can easily be exchanged for full ones. Helixx CEO and founder Steve Pegg sees a Bangkok market for his intended EVs in megacities such as Jakarta, among others.
Helixx says it has already completed a successful pilot in Oxfordshire and says it will also test its concept elsewhere in the UK and Singapore.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl