Passenger Electric Vehicle Developments in Europe

The 1995 International Automobile Show held in Frankfurt, Germany this September was the 56th showing of personal automobile vehicles, experimental and/or new production models, since it's inception in 1897. For this issue of Systems, we limited the scope of this report and selected from the 1995 IAA show for inclusion in this overview, only the electric vehicles on display by the European and Pacific rim automobile manufacturers. This selection includes twelve electric vehicles designed for personal transportation, and among them five vehicles have hybrid-electric propulsion systems.