{"id":160,"date":"2012-02-29T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2012-03-30T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:50:22","slug":"about-ecar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/?page_id=160","title":{"rendered":"About ECar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2011 <strong>Jotech Design <\/strong>bought all assets in EV adapt and changed the name to<strong> ECar Sweden. <\/strong>They have been involved since the beginning of EV-adapts effort to convert Fiat 500 to a pure electrical vehicle in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>They have transferred key people based on their experience from the automotive industry from Jotech Design and other companies in to<strong> ECar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ECar Swedens <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>staff are today a very competent R&amp;D team with experience from various OEM such as Ford, GM &amp; Volvo, the range of their experience goes from production, design &amp; testing, purchasing &amp; logistic to the management level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ECar Sweden<\/strong> is dedicated to green technology innovation in the automotive sector, especially with regards to providing full electric, fuel cells or range extender alternatives.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Global community is more environmentally aware than ever before in the history of mankind. As a result, eco-initiatives are being given Governmental backing in order to combat the growing issue of carbon emissions and pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Electric cars were first invented in 1834 by Thomas Davenport. Since then most major car manufacturers, at some time or another, have taken steps to build an electric car or a hybrid;\u00a0\u00a0e.g. Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Renault, Citroen, Volvo, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cost of implementing new lines of vehicles is currently not economically viable\u00a0and may only be feasible within the next 5 years. Whereas<strong> ECar Sweden <\/strong>already are doing it.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing the need for electric cars, for public services, large corporations and transportation companies who want to evaluate and use environmentally friendly cars. There\u00b4s also a market for electric cars for personal use as the technology becomes more known and accessible.<\/p>\n<p>We at <strong>ECar Sweden<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>are convinced that the only way to reach adequate volumes and to serve the market in the near future is to be very flexible in terms of vehicles together with a standardized\u00a0and industrialized process. We have been delivering converted vehicles since 2010 based on production experience from Autoadapt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2011 Jotech Design bought all assets in EV adapt and changed the name to ECar Sweden. They have been involved since the beginning of EV-adapts effort to convert Fiat 500 to a pure electrical vehicle in 2008. They have transferred key people based on their experience from the automotive industry from Jotech Design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/174"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ecarsweden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}