Loremo
Loremo is an automobile design by Loremo AG . The name is an acronym composed of Lo w Re sistance and Mo bile. A start of production was announced several times from 2001, but never materialized. Only a prototype of the car was made.
Company history
The idea for such a vehicle came from 1993, initiated by Ulrich Sommer. Development started in 1995. Originally, the basic model was supposed to get by with 1.5 liters of diesel per 100 km and be offered at a price of around 11,000 euros.
In 2008, the former boss and co-founder Gerhard Heilmaier and, a little later, co-founder Stefan Ruetz left Loremo. Thomas Zollhöfer became the new boss. The company founder and initiator of the project, Ulrich Sommer, left the company in October 2009.
In 2009 the concept was recognized by the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative.
The shareholding situation changed on December 15, 2011, when an unnamed shareholder acquired more than 50% of the shares in Loremo AG. This shareholder brought his company shares into the newly founded Loremo Holdings Corp. based in Dorsten .
On December 10, 2012 it was announced that due to the restructuring of Deutsche Börse, the shares of Loremo Holdings Corp. expected to be taken off the market on December 15, 2012. According to Loremo's plans, trading in another trading segment should be resumed between the first and second quarter of 2013. This did not take place; there has been no official company information since 2013.
On November 23, 2017, the Gelsenkirchen District Court dissolved the stock corporation. The bankruptcy was not opened due to lack of assets.
Development history
According to its engineers, the Loremo should be developed with the aim of consuming 1.5 liters of diesel fuel , 3 liters of petrol or 6 kWh of electricity per 100 km , depending on the model .
The Loremo was supposed to be presented for the first time at the IAA 2001 in Frankfurt, but a model was only shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 2006 , the delay was explained by the fact that an important investor had withdrawn. The model shown in Geneva had neither chassis nor engine. The first supposedly ready-to-drive prototype was exhibited at the IAA 2007. The manufacturer claimed to have used less than 2 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers during test drives. The prototype was initially diesel-powered. It was later converted to an electric drive. The production and the conversion were carried out by Heggemann and Hans Götz Engineering.
On April 11, 2009, the Loremo EV with electric drive is said to have driven on public roads for the first time. According to the company, speeds of up to 100 km / h should have been achieved.
In July 2010 it became known that only a drivable prototype and a non-operational model of the Loremo exist. The prototype had been in a workshop in Dorsten-Stadtsfeld as a deposit since October 2009, which made use of its workshop lien because Loremo AG had not paid open invoices for work on the vehicle. It was also announced that the prototype is powered by three batteries .
In November 2011 the Loremo prototype with electric drive was presented at the Turkish ICP.
On October 15, 2012, Loremo Holdings Corp. known to carry out a long-distance test drive with a gas hybrid engine developed by a partner company under notarial supervision and in the presence of the TÜV and international press representatives by the end of November 2012 . On December 10, 2012, Loremo Holdings Corp. then known to postpone the long-distance test drive due to the further development of the engine. Preliminary tests that were carried out together with Dekra would have resulted in a predicted range of 1500 kilometers with 5 kg of LPG . However, the vehicle is not powered by a gas engine, but by an electric motor; the gas engine is used exclusively to charge the batteries in the vehicle , the capacity of which is sufficient for a range of 200 kilometers. The final tests should be carried out between January and February 2013 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research . However, these tests did not take place again. In August 2016, Die Zeit named the Loremo under the title "The Dead Exotic", without any known activities since 2013.
Financing the project
At the beginning of 2006 the Malaysian company Kosmo Motors Company acquired a 26% stake in Loremo by paying the equivalent of around 2 million euros.
After Loremo AG was offered significantly better funding opportunities in North Rhine-Westphalia than in Bavaria, the company headquarters was relocated to North Rhine-Westphalia. According to a spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Economics, the project was supported by EU funds from the technology and innovation program with 2.3 million euros.
On April 15, 2009 Loremo AG published an investment prospectus for subscribing to new shares. According to this, around 4 million euros were needed in 2009 for the development of the concept , according to which prototypes for all three drive types (diesel fuel, gasoline and electricity) were to be presented (as of June 8, 2009).
On July 12, 2010 Zollhöfer announced in an affidavit that the cash assets of Loremo AG amounted to 50 euros.
Initially planned body
The original design was to have a front and a rear hatch. The two rows of seats on the Loremo should be positioned dos-à-dos with the backrests facing each other. The engine should be placed in between, see mid-engine . This took up an essential feature of the Zündapp Janus .
criticism
The interested public has never been able to inspect a drivable copy of a Loremos, as mishaps supposedly prevented this in the last few moments, for example on May 11, 2009 in Marl.
Since the summer of 2010, the company at the Marl location, funded by the state with 2.3 million euros, no longer exists . At this point it was extremely unlikely that the Loremo would even be produced in the intended manner.
literature
- Johannes Kelch: A car from the virtual world. Development according to the "principle of simplicity". Computerwoche Volume 31 (2004), Issue 38, Pages 42-43 ISSN 0170-5121
- Frank O. Hrachowy: Resistance fighters. A German automobile developer is breaking new ground . Krafthand, Volume 80 (2007), Issue 11, Pages 42-44, ISSN 0023-4435
- Katharina Sekareva: Red thread. Special NRW. 2 liter car . Wirtschaftswoche (2008), issue 23, page 56, ISSN 0042-8582 .
Web links
- Official website (no longer available since May 2017)
- Article: Streamline Your Gas Guzzler to 1.5 Liters - extensive article on Loremo (English)
- Promotional video of a driving Loremo . It does not show what type of drive was used.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leo Föcher: Loremo - prototype and then? (PDF; 6.7 MB) Wirtschaftsmagazin-Ruhr, March 2007, archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; Retrieved February 15, 2013 .
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) Loremo.com, archived from the original on August 18, 2010 ; Retrieved August 25, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ No one has seen Loremo miracle car. September 13, 2008, accessed February 12, 2009 .
- ↑ Blog: Loremo advances ... loremo.com, October 12, 2009, archived from the original on August 18, 2010 ; Retrieved August 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Spar-Auto: Many visitors to the open day at Loremo ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Restructuring and refinancing of the company! Loremo.com, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; Retrieved February 15, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Loremo Holdings Corp .: One step at a time. dgap.de, December 10, 2012, accessed February 15, 2013 .
- ↑ The dead exotics. zeit.de, August 29, 2016, accessed on October 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Register announcement; District court Gelsenkirchen, file number HRB 8995. In: Company register. November 23, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Andrea Ege: Spar-Auto Loremo: 11,000 euros, 1.5 liters consumption. Focus, February 21, 2006, accessed August 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Tom Grünweg: Loremo, a miracle of savings: Light and airy. Spiegel Online , September 14, 2007, accessed August 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Hans Götz Engineering. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
- ^ Loremo: First public test drive. marlaktuell.de, accessed on April 21, 2009 .
- ↑ Susanne Menzel: The frog is still there. derwesten.de (WAZ Mediengruppe), July 23, 2010, accessed on August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ Thomas Zollhöfer: Program UIP ICP: The Automotive Industry in Turkey and Technical Presentation of Loremo Electric Powered automobiles. UİP-ICP, November 25, 2011, accessed January 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Loremo Holdings Corp .: We're ready to go! dgap.de, October 15, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2013 .
- ↑ The Dead Exotics , Die Zeit, August 29, 2016
- ^ Luigi Lugmayr: Loremo News: Malaysian Kosmo Motors Invests in the 157MPG Car Company. i4u news, May 26, 2006, accessed on August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ Malaysian Company Takes 26% Stake in German Maker of 157 MPG Diesel Car. Green Car Congress, May 26, 2006, accessed August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ Manfred Hummel: The future is heading to NRW. Süddeutsche Zeitung Online , February 21, 2007, accessed on August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ One of the cleanest cars in the world is built. rp-online.de , September 23, 2007, archived from the original on September 1, 2010 ; Retrieved August 26, 2010 .
- ^ Loremo share subscription offer. Archived from the original on January 4, 2010 ; accessed on October 17, 2009 (zipped PDF files).
- ↑ Ludger Böhne: "Looks nice". derwesten.de (WAZ media group), May 11, 2009, accessed on August 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Martin Ahlers: Vision of the lightweight car Loremo before the end. derwesten.de (WAZ Mediengruppe), February 3, 2010, accessed on August 25, 2010 .
