Solve: PN #674 -- Delhi College of Engineering, Fledge

[pnegyesi]

Please identify this car for a point

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[richard cuyler]

Is the soft top an extra-large doily knitted by a consortium of crotchety crocheting chrocheters, each irritably doing their own design, with the various segments then knitted together to form a more-or-less wet weather protector?  This eco-thing really can be taken to extremes. 

[gilescooperuk]

From the general shape is there a smart car trapped underneath

[pnegyesi]

no relations to smart

[pnegyesi]

Professionals?

[Arunas]

Is this G Car from Philippines?

[pnegyesi]

not from Philippines

[Arunas]

Thailand?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Arunas]

Taiwan?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Oguerrerob]

Mahindra DCE Hybrid  Fledge by AGM Students at the Delhi College of Engineering 2006 India

[pnegyesi]

quite so

The body is done up in a fine green and designed by AGM Technologies. Fitted with a 346 cc single cylinder petrol engine borrowed from the Royal Enfield Bullet, which churns out 18bhp and is mated to a Maruti Omni 4 speed gear box, the Fledge is capable of speeds close to 70 kilometers per hour. In electric mode, the Fledge is powered by a 3.5 HP permanent magnet DC brush motor running on 8 lead acid batteries connected in series, which manage to propel
the vehicle up to about 50km/h with reasonable ease. In electric mode there is no need to change gears and when you switch from petrol to electric, the Fledge disables the gearbox. The electric motor is connected to the driving shaft after the gearbox, by the means of a single reduction gear. Whenever the car is in the neutral gear, the motor will be capable of driving the car and the engine can remain completely switched off.
The Fledge is fitted with a 15litre petrol tank and 8 lead-acid batteries. Returning a mileage of around 28kmpl on petrol and going 117 kilometers on a single charge, the vehicle is capable of travelling a distance of around 537 kilometers without having to refuel or recharge