100% electric scooter Catalan will be sold in 2017
Rieju electric
The catalan goverment, Barcelona City Council and four Catalan companies (Volta, Scutum, Torrot and Rieju) signed today an agreement to create the Industrial Consortium of Electric Moto Catalana, which will manufacture and sell the scooter within two years .
Zero emission motorcycle, also composed of parts from local suppliers, have an equivalent to that of a 125cc power equip 16-inch wheels and LED optical type. Its price? 4,000 euros, including the battery.
In this business initiative that will create thirty new jobs, the Government will provide a loan of three million euros, for the assembly and testing of approval. The aforementioned private companies, meanwhile, mobilized a total of seven million in machinery and production processes, but not in cash. The goal is to produce 10,000 units per year.
In signing the agreement, the director general of Industry, Antoni Maria Grau, has made clear that the union of these four companies is not only to sell a product, but to create an industrial project of electric bike, an “emerging and industry great potential “, where Catalonia” should be well positioned. ”
For his part, the Minister of Enterprise and Employment, Felip Puig, has indicated that this initiative will seek to revive the Catalan industry around the motorcycle, a sector with a long tradition in Catalonia, who was born in the early twentieth century with companies like Derbi , Rieju, Montesa and Bultaco.
Courtesy Car Service Barcelona
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