Pininfarina Bluecar

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Bluecar at the Geneva Auto Show 2009
Bluecar models used in road traffic in Nanterre 2017
The prototype of the Blue Car in Geneva 2005

The Pininfarina Bluecar is an electric car and was developed under the project name Bluecar (also Blue Car or Bolloré-Blue Car ) by the battery manufacturer batScap , a subsidiary of the French conglomerate Groupe Bolloré , and by Pininfarina . EDF also has a 20% stake in batScap .

The basis of the electric car is the lithium polymer accumulator designed by batScap in Quimper in Brittany . A supercapacitor , which also comes from batScap, is also installed to absorb the current from the recuperation brake and to release it quickly when you accelerate .

In addition to Pininfarina , batScape also worked with Renault on the project . The engine is supplied by Matra Automobile Engineering , a Pininfarina subsidiary. The idea of ​​building a vehicle with the LMP battery type is attributed to Philippe Guédon, the former head of Matra Automobile .

In 2015, 1,190 Bolloré Blue Cars were registered in France. As in 2013 and 2014, the car was in third place in the registration statistics behind the Renault ZOE and the Nissan Leaf . In 2012, the first full year of production of the vehicle, the Bluecar was even at the top with 1,543 registrations.

history

At the Geneva Motor Show 2005 the Bolloré Group presented the Bluecar EV concept vehicle. The newly developed lithium polymer battery from subsidiary Batscap was used in this Blue Car 1. The body had three seats in the front and two seats in the back. A small series of six vehicles of the further developed Blue Car 2 model was built and registered in 2007.

Bluecar 2006 concept

The car should achieve the following technical specifications:

  • Range: 200 to 250 kilometers thanks to a 240 kg lithium polymer battery installed in the middle of the vehicle.
  • Battery charging time: 6 hours.
  • Total weight with battery: 1070 kg
  • Top speed: 120–125 kilometers per hour
  • Electric motor power: 30 kW in continuous operation, 50 kW maximum
  • Consumption costs: the electricity costs were estimated in the source to be 1 euro per 100 kilometers (without specifying the price basis).
  • Length: 3.05 meters
  • Height: 1.61 meters
  • Width: 1.71 meters

Building on the technology from Batscap, Pininfarina showed a new body for the concept vehicle under the designation Pininfarina B0 (B Zero) at the Paris Motor Show in October 2008 . The external shape of this five-door prototype of the Bluecar was designed by Lowie Vermeersch, the design director at Pininfarina. The dimensions were:

  • Length: 3.65 meters
  • Height: 1.60 meters
  • Width: 1.72 meters
  • Wheelbase: 2.50 meters

In Germany, this vehicle was presented in October 2009 at the eCarTec electric vehicle fair in Munich. Before the start of production in Italy in 2011 by a joint subsidiary of Bolloré and Pininfarina, this concept was modified. The production vehicle has only three doors and no solar panels on the roof.

Data of the production vehicle

  • Range: 250 km with a 300 kg lithium metal polymer battery.
  • Charging time of the battery: According to the manufacturer: 6 h, but the technical data for a normal household socket, 230 V AC, 16 A, ideally: 30 kWh / 3.6 kW results in at least 8.5 h. At future charging stations or wall charging stations , the manufacturer specifies 2 hours for accelerated charging. This would require charging connections with at least 15 kW, usually 400 V three-phase current with around 25 A fuse. If required, according to the manufacturer, a “lightning charge” of 5 minutes is also possible, with which the electric car can travel 25 km. Here, however, it can be calculated that the fast charging connections must provide at least approx. 36 kW for this (25 km / 250 km range * 30 kWh / 5 min = 36 kW).
  • Top speed: 110 kilometers per hour (electronically limited).
  • Motor power: 50 kW, battery peak power: 45 kW (30s). With a steady drive, around 5 kW are required for 50 km / h, and around 25 kW would be required for 130 km / h. The higher engine output improves both acceleration and the efficiency of recuperation .
  • Consumption information: The technical data results in approx. 30 kWh / 250 km, i.e. approx. 12 kWh per 100 km. The actual costs depend on the individual electricity costs (around € 0.25 / kWh in Germany in 2013) and the individual consumption, which can vary greatly depending on user behavior.
  • Battery energy content: 30 kWh (410 volts, 75 Ah at C / 4). Strictly speaking, this only applies to a discharge with approx. 18.75 A, i.e. only when the accumulator has to continuously output approx. 7 kW. Which in turn is the case at a constant speed of approx. 60–70 km / h. For details on the dependency of the capacity of a battery on the discharge current see under battery .

production

For the production of the vehicle, Pininfarina and Bolloré founded a 50-50 joint venture ("Véhicules Électriques Pininfarina-Bolloré"). The assembly was to take place at the Pininfarina assembly plant near Turin. Batscap manufactures the battery in Quimper and near Montreal , Canada.

After the start of delivery for late summer 2009 was originally announced, the first units should be delivered to customers from spring or summer 2010, while battery production should start in September 2009. According to the report, there were around 6,000 pre-orders in September 2009. The schedule was postponed again in 2009: a first prototype should now roll in 2010, series production was planned for 2011.

In mid-2010, Pininfarina reported in its annual report that the project had come to a standstill due to differences in the strategic objectives between the partners Pininfarina and Bolloré. The different policies of the governments of France and Italy with regard to incentives for electric cars were cited as one of the causes of the differences. In October 2010 it was announced that Bolloré had signed a contract with another Italian manufacturer to produce the vehicle. The company CECOMP in the Turin suburb of La Loggia built a production facility with an annual capacity of 1500 vehicles.

At the end of 2010, Bolloré was awarded the contract to operate the car sharing service Autolib ' for Paris and the surrounding area, for which 3,000 Bluecar electric cars were to be used. This went into operation in December 2011 with 250 vehicles. In March 2012, 1000 Bluecar were in use at Autolib; in December 2015 there were 3400 vehicles. In July 2018, Autolib was discontinued due to a persistent lack of profitability.

At the auto show in Geneva in March 2012, delivery to private customers was announced. Because of the existing charging infrastructure, interested parties in the Paris area should initially be able to lease the car . By the end of 2012, 1933 Bluecars had been registered in France.

In 2014, Bolloré signed a contract with Renault, which u. a. includes the relocation of Bluecar production to a Renault plant in Dieppe in northern France . Production there started in June 2015, while production continues in Italy. The contract with CECOMP runs until the end of 2016. [obsolete]

price

From the spring of 2013, the BlueCar was offered in France at a retail price of 19,000 euros, which has been reduced from 7,000 euros to 12,000 euros thanks to government funding. The vehicle will also be offered at this final price in 2015, although the state subsidy has been reduced to 6,300 euros. The price does not include the battery, which can be rented for 79 euros a month.

Since mid-2012, customers have been able to rent a vehicle for 330 euros a month.

See also

Web links

Commons : Pininfarina B0  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to the name: Electric vehicles, Solutions. (en), Bolloré Group 2016
  2. ^ Cordelia Chaton: French successful with affordable e-cars Twizy, Zoe and Bolloré. In: ingenieur.de. VDI nachrichten, July 23, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2016 (contains a comparison table between Bluecar and Twizy and Zoe): "BatScap (abbreviation for" batterie super-capcacité ")"
  3. ↑ The supercapacitors acceleration and power supply ( Memento from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Bolloré BlueCar: Blue Electric Future, March 13, 2008 ( Memento of October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Voiture Electrique: Blue Car (Bolloré & Pininfarina) , auto-electrique.org (fr)
  6. ↑ Theodoros Katsimpouras: France: Sales of Tesla Motors increased by 115 percent in 2015. In: TeslaMag. January 20, 2016, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Chiffres de vente & immatriculations de voitures électriques en France. In: Automobile Propre. Saabre SARL, Strasbourg, accessed on February 3, 2016 (French).
  8. ↑ moteur nature: BlueCar: la voiture électrique de Bolloré avec les batteries LMP de Batscap (fr)
  9. ↑ Geneva Motor Show 2006, press release: BlueCar, from drawing-board to reality ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (en)
  10. ↑ Storia & Modelli, Pininfarina BlueCar ( Memento of October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (it)
  11. ↑ Discover the Bluecar> An incomparable style ( Memento from April 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ a b Schrieber's power box, part 56 Autobild.de, October 25, 2009
  13. ↑ a b c Bluecar: The LMP battery ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ a b Bluecar: Discover the Bluecar ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ a b Discover the Bluecar> Technical data ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Bluecar pre-reservation ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ Bolloré / Pininfarina: The efficiency of two large industrial groups ( Memento from August 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Bolloré BlueCar: Electric car with Mediterranean charm Heise Auto, March 13, 2008
  19. ↑ Bluecar electric car on the market from spring or summer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. n24.de, September 2, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.n24.de  
  20. ↑ Compare to this paragraph: Semiannual Report of the Pininfarina Group ( Memento of August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), p. 4.
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  23. ↑ Emmanuel Maumon: Bolloré va exporter Autolib 'en Italie. In: avem.fr internet portal. AVEM, December 16, 2015, accessed February 3, 2016 (French).
  24. ↑ 399 vehicles in 2011, 1534 in 2012. Source: Editor: Répartition des ventes de voitures électriques par modèle sur 2012. In: Automobile Propre. Saabre SARL, accessed February 3, 2016 (French).
  25. ^ Diego Longhin: L'ombra della Renault sull'auto elettrica “Made in Piemonte”. In: La Repubblica. Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, September 14, 2014, accessed January 11, 2016 (Italian).
  26. ↑ Electric car Bluecar costs only 12,000 euros and has a range of 250 kilometers. My electric car, February 24, 2013
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