China automaker JAC (Jianghuai Automobile Co) has signed a cooperation agreement on the export of 2,000 pure electric vehicles with US-based GreenTech Automotive Corp. (GTA) for the US electric vehicle market.
In February 2013, a sample EV was sent to the US for testing and performance inspections. JAC’s third-generation electric vehicles have overall upgraded driver modules and improved total battery energy, range, maximum speed, acceleration, climbing performance and operation stability.
Compared with the second generation, the third generation integrates the functions of braking energy recovery and remote monitoring, JAC said. The braking energy recovery function can convert the kinetic energy produced in braking, acceleration and sliding down slopes to electric energy to increase the distance per charge by 5% to 10%.
The battery capacity of the third generation is increased from 15 kWh to 19 kWh and the driving range per charge on urban roads is increased by 30% from 100 km to 130 km. (It is revealed that the terminal price of an IEV 3 electric vehicle exported to the US in this time is about 20,000 USD.)
