Geely Holding Group, China’s largest personal automaker, says it has began deliveries of the world’s first methanol-battery hybrid car.
The car, priced at 129,800 yuan ($19,373), was tailored from a compact sedan below Geely’s Emgrand model and is initially being marketed in China.
Geely can be in search of to promote methanol autos in Europe. Earlier this yr, it began to check methanol-powered automobiles and heavy-duty vans in Denmark and Iceland.
It’s fitted with a 1.8-liter methanol-powered engine and ternary lithium batteries, with gas economic system that’s 40 % higher than a corresponding gasoline mannequin, Geely mentioned.
Geely is without doubt one of the few Chinese language automakers hoping to develop and promote methanol-powered autos in quantity.
It has invested greater than 3 billion yuan to develop methanol autos since 2005 and has delivered some 27,000 methanol automobiles and vans in China, Geely mentioned.