Pivco

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Pivco Industries
legal form Holding company
founding 1991
resolution 1998
Seat Oslo , Norway
Branch Automobiles

Pivco Piv 3

Pivco Industries was a Norwegian manufacturer of automobiles . Pivco stands for Personal Independent Vehicle Company .

Company history

The Oslo-based company started producing automobiles in 1991. The brand name was Pivco . Production ended in 1998. Ford acquired a stake in the company in late 1998. The new company was called Think Nordic AS .

vehicles

The vehicles were small cars with electric motors . The first model was the Piv 1 . 15 of these were made by 1995. The following model was the Piv 2 , also called City Bee . A lightweight aluminum frame was created in collaboration with Norsk Hydro . The body was made of plastic . The vehicle length was 280 cm. The maximum speed was given as 100 km / h. A total of 120 copies were made.

literature

Web links

Commons : Pivco  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .