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The Subaru G4e is a concept
The G4e name is intended to stand for "Green for the Earth." The car seats five and has a wedge design with a low 0.276 drag coefficient, aided by the deletion of wing mirrors in favor of a-pillar mounted rearview cameras. Batteries are stored under the floor to maximize passenger space. The interior is trimmed in red and white, with a dashboard incorporating a large video screen in the center stack intended to be reminiscent of a waterfall.
electric car
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developed by Japanese automaker Subaru
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in conjunction with Tokyo utility TEPCO
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as a possible successor to the R1e. It was unveiled at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show.
Design
The G4e name is intended to stand for "Green for the Earth." The car seats five and has a wedge design with a low 0.276 drag coefficient, aided by the deletion of wing mirrors in favor of a-pillar mounted rearview cameras. Batteries are stored under the floor to maximize passenger space. The interior is trimmed in red and white, with a dashboard incorporating a large video screen in the center stack intended to be reminiscent of a waterfall.
Technical
It has a range of and can be fully charged in about eight hours from a home AC power source. A quick charge to 80 per cent of the batteries' capacity is possible in just 15 minutes. The G4e uses alithium-ion battery
A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery which uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy. It is the predominant battery type used in portable consumer electronics and electric vehicles. It also se ...
developed exclusively by Subaru which employs vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer ( pas ...
technology to allow the battery to store two to three times more lithium ions than conventional lithium-ion batteries.
The car's battery pack provides 346 volts.
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