Buddy Electric Car
Customer’s expectations :
- Decrease weight compared to previous model using GRP panels
- Improve productivity for body panels' production
- Improve design
- Competitive final cost
- Using environmentally sensible material for body panels
- Short development time (ca. 1 year in total)
- Irrelevance of smell to be demonstrated via successfully carried out VW test
- Panels appearance has to be perfect, hence importance of design and engineering capabilities
- OEM, design and engineering partner selected and molder were all new to Telene technology
- 1st car with complete bodywork in Telene
- 50 kg weight reduction on body panels
- Leading to increased autonomy: 20 to 40 km depending on battery choice
- Successful launch at worldwide renowned show for electric vehicles EVS24 in Stavanger (Norway) in May 2009