SIM drive SIM LEI electric car reached 207-mile driving range in Japan

By Richard Lai posted Mar 31 2011 9:00 PM manufacturers are constantly optimizing the driving range for electric vehicles, and sure enough, a Japanese start before recently a breakthrough with made his first prototype. Synchronize the SIM LEI, this cute four-seater from SIM drive sips juice from a Toshiba 24.9kWh lithium ion battery, and can go from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.8 seconds with top speed topping-out ceremony at 150 km/h (93 mph). What is all the more impressive, though, is that SIM managed the squeeze-out a driving range of 333 km (207) with which a JC-08 cycle (standardized test that simulates driving in congested Japanese city traffic), set the LEI far beyond their competitors in the chart-Nissan leaf is about 100 miles, for example. Unfortunately not mass-production will kick-off to hopefully others do that a little catching up with this remarkable newcomer by the year 2013.

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