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Kewet Buddy Electric AS
Buddy Electric AS, is a Norwegian manufacturer of electric automobiles . The brand name is Kewet and Buddy.
History
Buddy Electric AS, formerly AS Pure Mobility and Electric Car Norway automobiles. The company Electric Car Norway AS was formed in 2005 in Oslo through the acquisition of Elbil Norge AS, which offered the Kewet Buddy under the brand name Kewet. Production of kewet continued. The brand name, however, was Buddy. in 2010 the company was renamed in AS Pure Mobility. Buddy Electric AS took over the company. The production of Buddy was continued, and the brand name Buddy maintained.
The first model was the Kewet Buddy. This was a microcar with electric motor. 2010 followed the similar Metro Buddy, who was later called Buddy. A three-door electric light vehicle or EU-homologated electric car manufactured by the Norwegian company Buddy Electric. After the bankruptcy in 1998 and the move to Norway, the vehicle from the Kewet 'EL Jet' (type 1 to 5) was further developed and changed the name bought in Kewet 'Buddy'. Since January 2010 the Kewet Buddy is available. Kewet 'Buddy Cab' refers to a variant with folding roof.
The vehicle has a hot-dip galvanized tubular steel frame and a polyester body with ABS parts. Offers space for three people through a wide bench seat. The prerequisite for this is the presence of three separate seat belts. During braking, part of the kinetic energy is converted into electricity and fed to the accumulators (recuperation). Different accumulator types can be ordered or installed. When purchasing the version with nickel-metal hydride batteries, the manufacturer gives a warranty of 10 years or 100,000 km on the batteries.
The maximum speed of the vehicle is 80 km / h, the range is the use of lead-acid batteries up to 80 km and with nickel-metal hydride up to 120 km. The power consumption is about 10 -17 kWh / 100 km; this corresponds to about 0.8 - 1.5 litres of gasoline.
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Mustad & Son
Mustad & Son produce nails, and hardware, and from 1916 to 1937 automobiles.
History
Mustad & Son is one of the oldest Norwegian industrial companies founded in 1832 in Gjøvik. Amongst other things, Mustad used to produce nails, and hardware, but today is known as the world's largest manufacturer of fishing hooks, which are exported to more than 160 countries.
Originally the company was founded as Brusveen Spiger Staaltraadfabrik , by Hans Skikkelstad in Vardal near Gjøvik. His son-in-law, Ole Mustad, took over the factory in 1843 and changed his name to O. Mustad. Mustad's son, Hans Mustad, became a co-owner in 1874, so the name was changed again to O. Mustad & Son. In 1877, the company started producing fishhooks.
In the period between 1890 and 1930 was marked by a large expansion with purchase and start-up of more than 300 companies in most European countries. The main production were nails for horseshoes, The company began in 1916 with the production of automobiles. In 1937 the production was stopped. The main reason for the expansion were the protective tariffs now introduced in most countries and the lower transport costs that could be achieved with local production.
After the Second World War, Mustad's factories were nationalized in Eastern Europe, and the company lost about half of its manufacturing facilities and about 8,000 workers. However, the decentralized company structure allowed the rest of the company to continue working unhindered and, like most other industries, enjoyed a boom in the 1950s and 1960s.
The oil crisis of the 1970s halted this growth and, like many other companies, Mustad was restructured. In 1970, the company was converted into a public company and in 1977 divided into the two companies Mustad Industries AS and Mustad International Group BV, the former was later renamed Mustad AS.
The first car models by Clarin Mustad was offered between 1916 and 1917. It was a big vehicle called the Giganten (Giant) with six wheels, two in the front and four in the back. Initially an arrived four-cylinder engine used in 1917 by a six-cylinder engine with 7000 cc capacity and 85 PS was replaced performance. There were the bodywork sedan and torpedo all four rear wheels are powered, with differential axles and a centre differential that enables different speeds on all drive wheels.the later cars could now seat upto12 people.
In 1935 the next model was introduced. It was a small coupe in the style of the Fiat 500 Topolino.
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Pivco Industries
Pivco Industries was a Norwegian manufacturer of small automobiles in the 1990s. The brand name was Pivco.
History
The company from Oslo began in 1991 with the production of automobiles. Pivco stands for Personal Independent Vehicle Company.
The vehicles were micro cars with electric motors. The first model was the Piv 1. Of these, 15 were created by 1995. The following model was the Piv 2 The second-generation electric vehicle, also called City Bee. In cooperation with Norsk Hydro, a lightweight frame made was aluminium. The body consisted of plastic. The vehicle length was 280 cm. The maximum speed was indicated at 100 km / h. A total of 120 built.
1998 ended the production. Ford joined the company in late 1998. The new company was called Think Nordic AS. The first generation Think city was launched in 1998 at EVS 15 in Brussels. The car was developed by the PIVCO engineering with Lotus Engineering.
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Strommen-Dodge History
Strommen-Dodge was a Norwegian Vehicle brand from the 1920s and 1930s.
History
The company AS Strommen’s Værksted from Strømmen was founded in 1873 as a steelwork and began in 1933 with the production of automobiles, which were marketed as Strømmen. In 1936 the production of own models was discontinued. Strømmen also built buses and was made in 1929 the buses built in aluminium. Trucks were also produced.
The company began in 1933 with the production of automobiles. In 1940, production ceased. Between 800 and 1000 vehicles were produced per year.
Between 1933 and 1940, vehicles were also manufactured under license from Dodge and offered under the brand name Strømmen-Dodge. In 1970, the steel area was split off. In 1978, Strommen’s Værksted was taken over by Norks Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB). In 1988, it was acquired by ABB, in 1996 by Adtranz and in 2001 Bombardier Transportation.
Between 1933 and 1936 were created large vehicles based on Dodge. The vehicles with extended wheelbase offered seven seats in the four-door sedan body. The Strømmen Dodge models were created after a license from Dodge. The vehicles were equipped with six-cylinder engines with 3300 cc to 3600 cc displacement. The vehicles were mainly offered as a sedan.
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Troll Plastik og Bilindustri
Troll Plastik and Bilindustri was a small car manufacturer from Norway in the 1950s.
History
The company was based in Lunde in the province of Telemark.The engineer Per Kohl-Larsen planned after the Second World War, the production of small cars in Norway. Kohl-Larsen got to know the designer Bruno Falck and the former Saab engineer Erling Fjugstad , and so in November 1955, the first prototype, a two-seat sports look coupe with plastic body, which was equipped with a three - cylinder two-stroke engine from Saab, emerged 748 cc Capacity 33 hp power.
In 1956 production started. For reasons of cost, the bankrupt company Gutbrod from Plochingen in Germany purchased complete chassis and two-cylinder two- stroke engines, which produced about 22 kW (30 hp) with intake manifold injection from a displacement of 663 cc The gearbox was a three speed Hurth gearbox. These production vehicles were longer than the prototype and offered space for a rear seat.
In early 1957, the company went bankrupt after the production of five production vehicles, a sixth vehicle was then assembled from existing spare parts.
Between 1955 and 1957, five to six copies were produced.
