Electric car and fetish

In the context of developing automobiles, is not far off. On the other, the Fetish is still not available. Sales were scheduled to begin this year, but were delayed for undisclosed reasons until Venturi said each of its cars, which are custom built, would take about four months to complete at its Monaco production facility.

The Fetish can seat only two and measures only 3. This would explain its lithe weight of only kg. A single charge will cover at most km. However, this reduces dramatically to km when driven hard.

Venturi may be known to evo readers as the manufacturer of elegant coupes vaguely resembling the Lotus Esprit but better built , or perhaps for periodically going bankrupt. Monegasque entrepreneur Gildo Pastor is the French manufacturer's sixth owner. The two-seater Fetish is the first of a planned range of models. The original Fetish, shown at the Paris motor show, had a Renault petrol engine and was effectively an enlarged though still small , uprated, rebodied Renault Spider. Instead, here is the world's first electric high-performance car.

The Venturi Fetish concept car was first unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, and went on to be one of the stars of the Paris Motor Show and Detroit Motor Show - an electric sportcar concept of French design. Buoyed by public enthusiasm and the brand's 20th anniversary, Venturi took the Fetish one step further in , putting the car into production and first selling the car in the Japanese market in November. Having integrated the standards for Europe, Japan and the USA from conception, the Fetish went on sale in the United States in January - the company having identified Tokyo and Los Angeles as the markets most sensitive to environmental issues.