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The European Parliament voted last week to mandate zero-emission laws for all new passenger vehicles sold in Europe from 2035 but left an exemption for ultra-low volume car makers like Donkervoort.



The new rules will force mainstream car makers to produce only zero-emission vehicles by 2035 but also to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared to 2021 figures).


Effectively, the new law bans the sale of any new petrol-, diesel- and hybrid-powered vehicle in the EU from 2035.


Donkervoort supports the indefinite exemption for boutique car makers (selling fewer than 1000 vehicles a year) on both business and environmental grounds.


"We create art pieces that exist for 100 years or more, so they're not mass-production cars you throw away after 15 years," Donkervoort Automobielen Managing Director Denis Donkervoort said.

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ven. 10 mars 2023 18:11

oui mais ça ruisselle.

Ajoutant qu'il s'agit de la première voiture que la marque a dû concevoir elle-même, ce sera donc aussi la première où le constructeur pourra vraiment déployer ce que l'on pourra appeler un "style Caterham", celui de la Seven provenant encore directement d'une conception Lotus où la fonction définit intégralement la forme.

Any electric Seven must be useable on both the road and track. For the latter, this means being capable of a repeatable 20-15-20 drive cycle: the ability to drive on track for 20 minutes and recharge in 15 minutes with enough energy to drive for a further 20 minutes.

The weight increase is less than 70kg compared to the current production Seven* it is based upon (meaning a total mass of just under 700kg). Its 51kWh immersion-cooled battery is housed in the engine bay and transmission tunnel and is capable of DC rapid charging speeds of up to 152kW. It has a usable capacity of circa 40kWh, safely allowing the battery pack to withstand demanding track use followed by rapid charging without causing premature degradation.

The concept uses a bespoke version of Swindon Powertrain’s E Axle based on the HPDE family. It produces 240bhp at 9,000rpm and instantaneous peak torque of 250Nm. This will deliver a predicted 0-60mph time of approximately 4.0 seconds. The powertrain has been engineered to closely match the performance characteristics of the current production Seven* to ensure EV Seven shares similar driveability to the ICE model.