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Don’t make your kids try this all-electric car, they would never step down. It has everything they’d like. A cheerful roundish shape, the wind turbine that reminds the flag kids use to put on their bike in the 80s, and tiny wheels.

But it’s really a car. At least, a concept car.

The Eclectic has been built on this idea: Make the car regenerate its batteries itself. By its solar panel that acts as the car roof and the woowoo wind turbine.

Sadly, that doesn’t mean the car can run forever, you won’t be able to pick your wife in London and make her discover Oulan-Bator, in Mongolia ― we wished it though. That mean the car recharge its batteries anywhere, anytime. And it has just one to refill, a NiMH one, that could power the car up to 50 km at an average speed of 50 km/h.

For those like us who live in France, Venturi, the company behind the design, showcased it at the Auto Salon 2006 in Paris.


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