Competence: Electrical vehicle equipped with solar panels
founded: 2012
Team: 12
HQ: Munich
Founders: Jona Christians, Navina Pernsteiner, Laurin Hahn
Sono Motors is building an electric vehicle called Sion. The overall goal is to enable sustainable mobility for everyone, without limiting the user.
Electro-mobility is currently experiencing a boom. Until today, however, no cost-effective electric car suitable for everyday use has been available on the market. The Munich Start-up SONO MOTORS now presents a family-friendly electric car called Sion on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. With a range of 250 km, a price of 16,000 € and the integration of solar cells in the body, the vehicle should be of particular interest to the middle class. Via this crowdfunding campaign, SONO MOTORS will be collecting the money necessary to reproduce the prototype of the Sion for crash tests and trial runs. Through a subsequent pre-sale in 2017, SONO MOTORS is hoping to gather enough financial support for serial production of Sion in cooperation with automotive manufacturers and suppliers.
Sion
Sono Motor’s Sion five door compact van (Image: Sono Motors)
The five-door compact van is a purely electric car with a battery capacity of 30 kWh and fast-charge performance with up to 43 kW, so even long-distance and vacation trips pose no problem. However, the striking innovation is a unique self-charging system called viSono, which charges the Sion through solar cells. With a surface area of 7.5 m², these cells generate enough electricity to give the Sion an additional 30 free kilometres in one day. In short: A self-charging electric car. Bidirectional charging – the Sion can not only be charged with electricity, but can also provide electricity at any time. Thus, the Sion is a mobile power storage. Using a household plug, it is possible for current consumption by all common electronic devices with up to 2,000 watts.
The “reSono” system
A maintenance system called „reSono“ guarantees favourable maintenance costs due to inexpensive spare parts. At reSono, an instruction catalogue and a tutorial video will be provided, intended to guarantee that even an amateur can install spare parts into the vehicle without major automotive knowledge. But that does not mean customers have to repair the Sion by themselves. The royalty-free disclosure of the workshop manual is meant to enable brand independent car repair shops all over the world to repair the Sion. This results in a very well-developed service network from the start which guarantees you a cost-effective repair of the vehicle. In short: The customer can simply go to the repair shop around the corner with the Sion.
Contact
Sono Motors GmbH
MTZ | Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1
DE-80992 Munich
phone: +49 89 357 648 80
mail: info@sonomotors.com
www: sonomotors.com
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