Fiat Palio EVs to be tested in Brazil

Posted Aug 16th 2007 at 4:02PM by Sam Abuelsamid

Brazilian electric utility Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (Cemig) is teaming up with Fiat to build a test fleet of battery-powered Fiat Palios. They will be building thirty of the cars powered by batteries from Swiss manufacturer KWO to start with at a price of $36,000. If the project works out a battery plant could be opened in Brazil near Fiat's plant in Minas Gerais state. In a country that has been an ethanol proponent for as long as Brazil it will be interesting to see how this project pans out.

[Source: Ward's Auto World]

Tags: battery palio, BatteryPalio, ev palio, EvPalio, fiat ev, fiat palio, FiatEv, FiatPalio

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-16-2007 @ 5:11PM

Dave said...

Anyone know:

The batteries start at $36,000 or the car?
Do we have any specs? Range? Speed?
Availability?

Thanks!

8-16-2007 @ 7:29PM

ug said...

Finally an EV that looks halfway normal.

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