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UltraCommuter
UltraCommuter was a hybrid electric concept car first designed by the University of Queensland Sustainable Energy Group and unveiled in 2005.〔(Green machine drives for ultra fuel savings ), University of Queensland News, 19 April 2005〕 In 2007 the project was transferred to the Waikato University School of Engineering and further developed in conjunction with HybridAuto Pty.〔(Petrol takes back seat to battery power ), Simon O'Rourke, New Zealand Herald, 13 September 2007〕
== Design and development ==
The UltaCommuter project commenced in 2000 out of the University of Queensland's award winning solar car project, the SunShark. Dr Geoff Walker said the aim was to make a car that people could register and drive from the knowledge gained making the SunShark. The car body toured Queensland in 2005 and 2006 as part of RACQ's roadshow on the history of Queensland motoring called ''Bulldust to Bitumen and Beyond''. In 2007 Matthew Greaves, Ben Guymer, and Bernie Walsh who started the UltraCommuter project formed HybridAuto and passed development on to (Waikato University School of Engineering ) team lead, (Dr. Mike Duke ).
The UltraCommuter was described as a long range two seater electric vehicle. It ran on either a single 150 kg lithium battery pack which gave it a range of about 200 km. With two battery packs installed the range is doubled to 400 km. The car could attain speeds of between 120kmh and 170kmh. The cars aluminium honeycomb chassis was about one third the weight of a similar sized production car, and two engines are situated in the rear wheels.〔(Kiwi electric car goes the distance ), Stuff.co.nz, Fairfax Media, 10 September 2007〕
HybridAuto (now Ultramotive Technologies) and Page MacRae, a Mount Maunganui engineering firm, funded the initial development cost of about NZ$150,000, with the intention of making it road legal as a research tool for investigating introducing battery electric cars into New Zealand. Ultramotive provided the electric motors.〔(Electric Racer is Street Legal ), Engineering Dimension, IPENZ, October 2007, page 14〕 In 2007 Dr Duke of Waikato University stated that it would take at least 18 months and cost at least $10 million to market and produce between 100 and 2000 electric cars a year.〔(Electric Cars Wait in the Wings ), Manawatu Standard, 17 September 2008〕
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