Compagnie Parisienne des Voitures Électriques Système Kriéger

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Compagnie Parisienne des Voitures Électriques Système Kriéger

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founding 1897
resolution 1909
Seat Paris , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Share over 100 francs in the Compagnie Parisienne des Voitures Électriques on April 27, 1905
Kriéger from 1908
Kriéger Landaulet

The Compagnie Parisienne des Voitures Électriques Système Kriéger was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Louis Kriéger (1868–1951) developed electric cars from 1887 . When interest in electric vehicles grew in France, he founded the Compagnie Parisienne des Voitures Électriques Système Kriéger in Paris and began series production. The brand name was Kriéger . In 1907 the company was renamed Compagnie Parisienne des Voitures Électriques and moved to Colombes . In 1909 the company went into liquidation . But there are indications that Louis Kriéger continued to work in the electric vehicle sector.

vehicles

The Brougham, Landaulet, and Electrolette were three of the models manufactured by Kriéger.

The Electrolette was designed as a two-seater. An electric motor with 3 HP (2.2 kW) was located right next to the front wheels. The Fulmen battery pack weighed over 360 kg and was attached to a container under the car and easily accessible from the rear of the vehicle. According to Kriéger, the range was at least 105 km per charge.

In 1901, 43 electric vehicles were produced and in 1902 at least 65. The vehicles had an electric motor in each front wheel, similar to the Lohner-Porsche , and were mainly used as a cab . Between 1902 and 1906 he produced hybrid cars in which built-in engines from De Dion-Bouton and Brasier were used to charge the batteries. Recuperation brakes were used for the first time in Kriéger electric vehicles .

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Musée des 24 Heures in Le Mans , France.

Licensing

The Kriéger Automobil AG from Berlin , the STAE from Turin and the Allgemeine Betriebsgesellschaft für Motorfahrzeuge (ABAM), from which the Kölner Electricitäts-AG (KEW) emerged, were licensees.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

Commons : Kriéger vehicles  - Kriéger

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ Popular Science Monthly: Popular Science Monthly, Volume 57, August 1900 . Ed .: Popular Science Monthly.
  5. ↑ Gijs Mom: The electric vehicle: technology and expectations in the automobile age . S. 21 .