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.