AST City ONE: electric

Electromobility rinses a number of new players into the automotive scene that would probably have found no existential authority in addition to the established panels. Now that the cards are newly mixed, providers like ACM have a chance. ACM, this stands for Adaptive City Mobility, behind it is a Munich start-up, which presents a special concept on the IAA (7 - 12 September 2021): The City One is a 3.60 meter short electric gentlem A flexible space concept and exchangeable batteries.

Spartan, but with great screen: the cockpit. ACM

Depending on requirements, either up to five people can ride - or the City One mutates to the two-seater mini-transporter. This then works so that a few handles of the rear area to the loading area is converted. With 1450 liters, he should be so tall that even a europeral disappears behind the side of the side patch.

360 kilometers range

Also lubries how ACM introduces the cause with the batteries. So namely: Under the loading floor, four batteries of 2.5 kWh each take capacity, which can be seen as suitcases and exchanging them within three minutes, for example, by those that the City ONE is transported on a roof rack. This results in an increase in the range of 240 by another 120 to a total of 360 kilometers. On charging stations, the battery pack is made fit in five hours again, on the household socket are 8 hours to be counted. As power consumption ACM calls a value of less than 10 kWh.

Use in the carsharing area

The name can be guessed: Mainly the City ONE is to create streams through city traffic. As a customer base, the Munich less private individuals than car sharing providers, leasing companies or fleet operators (delivery services approximately) have targeted.

Inviting: The rear compartment takes up a europe. ACM

The small waels from the ACM City presented in 2019 has been driven by a 15KW machine on the rear axle and was classified as a lightweight vehicle according to L7E. Should the City ONE fall under this classification, he should already be driven by 16-year-olds with driver's license. Whether that comes so, is questionable, because the mini is then weighed without battery only 450 or (as commercial vehicle) 550 kilograms, but in the room are 950 kilograms, whereby is still unclear whether this indication includes the batteries.

Ex-Opel boss as an investor

The construction of first test vehicles is validated for 2023, the series production, this reports the Handelsblatt, works 2024. As a development partner ACM was able to win the Canadian-Austrian supplier Magna, and there is a cooperation with the Porsche subsidiary MHP, as an investor dedicated to the former Opel boss Karl-Thomas Neumann.

Tempting sounds what to hear about price: Already from 10,000 euros, the entry into the electric power car should be possible.