The Cree SAM, designed and developed by the

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company Cree, is a prototype zero emission

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. It is a tadpole

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, with two seats in a tandem arrangement. About 80 vehicles were produced for public testing in the

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area, in 2001 (

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). In 2003 the company laid off all employees and applied for bankruptcy, but the shareholders including the original designer Daniel Ryhiner bought the company and kept it running, as an investment offer. In mid-2009 a Polish company, Impact Automotive Technologies (IAT, Pruszkow), was said to be developing a newer and faster version of the Cree SAM with a larger range. It was tested and received road certification in Italy, and was planned to produce 500 cars by the beginning of 2009.

External links

Cree
the original website
Friends of Sam, official SAM websiteSAM group2008 developmentsThe new re-volt SAM
(Polish, the English site is not responsive)
Impact Automotive Technologies
The company that took over SAM development. Electric cars Cars of Switzerland Plug-in hybrid vehicles {{modern-auto-stub