South Africa unveils its first electric car Video Treevolution
Visit: http://www.treevolution.co.za/2008/10/sa-unveils-its-first-electric-car/ http://www.jacksonfilm.co.za/MSJ/joule.asp South Africas first electric car, the Joule, has finally been unveiled to the public. Weve been waiting months to get a look at this six-seater designed by Keith Helfet, the South African-born former chief stylist for Jaguar, and built on practically a shoestring budget by Cape Town-based Optimal Energy.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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