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Honda to Lease EV-neo Electric Scooter from December

13 April, 2010 10:46:00

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Honda has revealed the EV-neo electric scooter and announced plans to begin lease sales in Japan in December 2010 to businesses and individual business owners who provide mainly delivery services.

The EV-neo, the equivalent of a 50cc gasoline-powered bike, uses a Toshiba-made lithium-ion battery with double the power density of the nickel-cadmium battery used in the earlier electric scooters.

The charging time for the new model is half the eight hours of the previous bike. Honda says rapid charging equipment gives the new battery an 80% charge in 20 minutes, and the bike can travel more than 30 kilometers (19 miles) on a single charge.

With a regular charger, 100% of the battery capacity will be charged in approximately 4 hours (100V power source).

Under the key words of “quiet and clean” Honda held the world premier exhibition of the EV-neo concept model (under the name EVE-neo) at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show as one of Honda’s new-generation personal mobility products which will contribute to the realization of a low-carbon society while transporting people and cargo. The mass-market model of EV-neo is currently under development.

Honda, Japan's second biggest car maker and the world's biggest motorcycle maker by volume, first leased electric motorcycles 16 years ago, albeit in small numbers, rolling out only 200 bikes over three years.

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