Chevrolet e-Spark Preview

Reva will provide battery technology for e-Spark.all the customer benefits, that one could expect from
e-Spark will based on existing Spark architecture.small segment Petrol and Diesel cars
e-Spark has been designed keeping environmentalIt is too early to predict its performance by seeing its
issues and carbon emission into consideration. E-Sparkspecification and also some of the critical features of
will trigger the green concept in the Indian auto mobilethe car like maximum torque, maximum speed was
industry and it will fuel the future technology for thenot revealed yet. Chevrolet has not altered the
cars in India.exterior of the car much. The exterior resembles
Designe-Spark comes with comfortable 5 seatingalmost same as its predecessor. They would have
capacity. Body type is hatch back.Four doors willmade it more appealing and more modern.e-Spark
facilitate easy entry and exit. E-spark comes withlacks the safety features. Though it is priced at 7 lakh,
automatic gear mechanism; you need not worry aboutit doesn't offer airbags parking sensors and safety
managing clutch every time. It will come handy in thefeatures. It will be even more elegant, if they include
cities which have heavy traffic density. It is a fullysome of these safety features.
automatic car and it has unique propulsion which willCost and Launche-Spark will be priced at 7 lakh at
enable easy driving. Initially, it may be little difficult toNew Delhi. GM is thinking of adopting the same model
adjust for its new driving mechanism. Dash board iswith the 800CC engine. If they adopt this, they may
smartly and uniquely designed, it is very informativereduce the existing price; then it will give competition
which will provide necessary signals to the driver.for lower segment cars like Maruthi Alto, Hyundai
Specificationse-Spark's car battery is powered bySantro and other segment cars. It may give
very high power and efficient e-Spark RECC EVcompetition to smaller segment cars and as well as to
powertrain. RECC EV power train is supplied by Reva.the middle segment cars to certain extent.
Reva have done lot of research in electric batteryGM is planning to produce 5000 cars initially, is
management and they have succeeded in developingexpected to launch in Oct'10.
efficient and powerful battery. As soon as we pedalThe car will be rollout from Telegoan facility in
the accelerator, powerful electric AC motor will exertMaharashtra and Halol plant in Gujarat.
100% torque, which will boost the acceleration. It has 2Final worde-Spark is a new innovative car comes with
modes namely Regular drive mode and boost mode5 seating capacity and other full-fledged features.
which will power the car with high torque electric ACMore importantly, it is battery powered and zero
motor. Boost mode provides additional torque for shortcarbon emission car. It will take Indian Automobile
duration to the vehicle so that driver can adjust hisindustry into future, welcome move by GM &
driving style.e-Spark comes with 995cc, 4 cylinder PlusReva motors, and other rival are expected to follow
Electric motor.. Earlier, electric car launched by Reva,soon. Both state and central government may give
did not got popularized much due to its only 2 seatingsubsidy for this car to promote it, for its environmental
capacity, maximum speed of 80KMPH and shortfriendly features.
battery life. But this time, e-Spark have come up with