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"Can Turkey beat Tesla at its own game with a SAAB-based EV?
The Turkish government is funding the development of an all-electric vehicle that it hopes will drastically change the nation’s automotive landscape. The project is still at the embryonic stage of development, but government officials are ambitiously predicting that the sedan will be a ground-breaking vehicle.
“Our car will be better and safer than Tesla’s car,” asserted Fikri Işık, Turkey’s minister of Science, Industry, and Technology.
Işık explained that Turkey’s yet-unnamed people’s car will be better than a Tesla — presumably the recently introduced Model 3 — because it will be equipped with a range extender that will automatically top up the battery pack when it’s out of electricity. The unit will take the form of a 1.0-liter two-cylinder engine that will be produced locally starting in late 2018. It will likely be designed specifically for the car, too, because there is currently not a single major automaker with a 1.0-liter twin in its parts bin.
Further technical details haven’t been published yet, so what kind of battery the car will use and how far it will be able to drive on a single charge is anyone’s guess at this point."
Honestly, it's not like I like the article, it is as how you described and I wasn't gonna post it but then I found similar article's published yesterday strangely, article's weren't only in English. I agree with Fikri Işık “Our car will be better and safer than Tesla’s car,” and as what Ronan Glon says that it will drastically change the nation’s automotive landscape.I really don't like it when people write up a half-arsed articles with sarcastic undertone and minimal research..
Found a car manufacturer that produces <999cc two piston in-line engines - Fiat.Twin Air
Found out the battery and range capacity of -national car-
"The model has a 15 kilowatt-hour battery, which allows a car to go 100 kilometers at a monthly cost of around TL 60 ($20), and a small generator that runs on fossil fuels and generates electricity when the battery is about to die during long-distance drives."
http://www.dailysabah.com/automotiv...domestic-electric-car-to-hit-the-road-in-2019
There you go RONAN GLON, you lazy C#nt.
https://twitter.com/europeancarnews
I agree with Fikri Işık, though you are right at that authorities shouldn't make such claims whether they're right or not, but better stop reading Sputnik.I hate it when Turkish officials claim how a thing we develop, build or do in general is "much better" than anything that can rival it around the world. They should learn not to talk so much bullshit: stay calm, don't talk about your strengths, look weaker than you are, always underestimate your strengths and overestimate your liabilities while trying to improve them. With comments like this (especially when we talk about Tesla) we are only making people laugh at us... Comparing a car that is still in development and will probably not become massively produced any time soon with Tesla - a company that already has 400 thousand orders before even starting to produce their product.
Such claims remind of this:
Minister claims Turkish technology ahead of ‘inadequate’ NASA