Venture Vehicles VentureOne
Using tilting technology from Carver, Venture Vehicles plans to market a 3-wheel EV/PHEV which is enormously fun to drive, yet safe and gets awesome efficiency. They showed off a (non moving) mockup of the vehicle at the 2008 New York Auto Show, and work is apparently proceeding on the "alpha" vehicle, with regular updates given on the Forums. They should make a strong showing in the alternative class, if they can get their vehicle ready in time. Check out the new Venture Vehicles VentureOne page, or read on for the same info.
Short Description: tilting 3-wheel, EV & PHEV
Availability & Cost: late 2009, $25k
Availability & Cost: late 2009, $25k
Background and Details
- Based on tilting technology from Carver called "Dynamic Vehicle Control" DVC, with over a decade of development
- Vehicle can tilt up to 45 degrees to each side, reviews of Carver emphasize how fun to drive it is: "fly the road"
- Venture Vehicles licensed that technology: they are not buying vehicles to retrofit, they are designing and building their own vehicle based on the tilting technology
- They got $6M funding in August 2007
- Massive amount of safety engineering and equipment including roll-cage, seat belts, air bag, engine shield, ABS
- "Alpha" prototype forum update on June 15th 2008 shows milling work on body panels and some part renderings
- Seats two in tandem, but back seat has little leg room
- They plan to produce at least 5000/year, with an initial facility that can scale to 36k units/year
- They plan to test both PHEV and EV prototypes for the AXP race - either one would be alternative class
- References: OfficialSite Wikipedia Carver Engadget Treehugger HybridCars PopMech ABG1 2 3 Forum Club
Vehicle Stats
MPGe
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240 MPGe electricity
100 MPG gasoline/hybrid |
Weight
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1400 lbs
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L x W x H (ft)
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11.7 x 4 x ?
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HP
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e50 - 67 HP hybrid
Q100 - 134 HP hybrid EV - 54 HP all-electric |
0-60 MPH
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7 seconds (hybrid)
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Top Speed
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100 MPH (hybrid)
75 MPH (EV) |
Range
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20 miles electric (hybrid)
120 miles (EV) |
Battery Info
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2.4 kWh, 45 lbs li-ion supplied by A123 (hybrid)
17 kWh (EV) |
Charge Time
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? 15 minute quick charge
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Motors
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2x PML Flightlink in-wheel
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Cd x Frontal Area
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0.32 x ? ft^2
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An automatic system that takes over the balance control was required in order to maintain the ideal tilting angles under all imaginable driving conditions, such as at all speeds and accelerations and during rapid emergency maneuvers, and also on slippery or slanting road surfaces.
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sandra
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An automatic system that takes over the balance control was required in order to maintain the ideal tilting angles under all imaginable driving conditions, such as at all speeds and accelerations and during rapid emergency maneuvers, and also on slippery or slanting road surfaces.
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sandra
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Hi,
Jimmy from Canada. I am newbie in this site. An automatic system that takes over the balance control was required in order to maintain the ideal tilting angles under all imaginable driving conditions, such as at all speeds and accelerations and during rapid emergency maneuvers, and also on slippery or slanting road surfaces.
Jimmy
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I was employed as a sourcing and purchasing specialist to assist in the purchase of pre-modular components of this vehicle. While it sports a unigue engenuaity and concept, it has taken a backseat to numerous other rapidly developed vehicles with admirirable funding resources affording the rapid advancement of competative hybrid vehicles. The rivalry of well established competitors such as BMW, Advanced Battery Technologies, Yamaha,Honda and others, it will prove to be a difficult task to design manufacture and assemble due to such low financial interest and rapid advancement of huge hybrid introductory markets. Venture has failed to meet deadlines of road readiness for the announced year 2008. A retail price of $18,000.00 to $23,000.00 is unsubstaintiated and has no proven or established manufacturing base cost. While professing to have three developemental products in the works, Venture 50, Venture Q 100, and Venture EV, none of which have been road ready tested for performance or safety. While the product drew great interset to me personally, I after 25 years of manufacturing and purchasing experience, cannot see this as a viable hybid solution as the lack of resources become evident and the struggle for capital investment dimenish.
Timing is everything and Venture/Pursue Mobility has fallen far behind on every aspect of this vehicles design, developement, product reliabilty and saftety performances.
I was employed as a sourcing and purchasing specialist to assist in the purchase of pre-modular components of this vehicle. While it sports a unigue engenuaity and concept, it has taken a backseat to numerous other rapidly developed vehicles with admirirable funding resources affording the rapid advancement of competative hybrid vehicles. The rivalry of well established competitors such as BMW, Advanced Battery Technologies, Yamaha,Honda and others, it will prove to be a difficult task to design manufacture and assemble due to such low financial interest and rapid advancement of huge hybrid introductory markets. Venture has failed to meet deadlines of road readiness for the announced year 2008. A retail price of $18,000.00 to $23,000.00 is unsubstaintiated and has no proven or established manufacturing base cost. While professing to have three developemental products in the works, Venture 50, Venture Q 100, and Venture EV, none of which have been road ready tested for performance or safety. While the product drew great interset to me personally, I after 25 years of manufacturing and purchasing experience, cannot see this as a viable hybid solution as the lack of resources become evident and the struggle for capital investment dimenish.
Timing is everything and Venture/Pursue Mobility has fallen far behind on every aspect of this vehicles design, developement, product reliabilty and saftety performances.
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