A piece of news from an American newspaper, Des Moines Register, has attracted big interest online. The owner of a company that used to sell Chrysler found a solution to get him out of the crisis brought by the economic environment: he'll bring from Romania electric cars put together in this country - cars based on Dacia models. The news needs to be read with caution: the article talks about high selling prices, of up to 30,000 dollars, an unusual high autonomy - 400 km, and it does not mention who's the producer and where they are produced.
Des Moines Register publishes an interview with Gene Gabus, a dealer's manager who was selling Chrysler until recently, but as the situation got worse, quick solutions were needed and he found them, apparently, in Romania. Gabus says that he received the first electric car from Romania on Friday, February 5 2010, a car that was created according to Dacia Logan Pick-up model. The car is said to sell in America under the EMC brand.
Gabus says that he'll bring a break model and a van model, all cars have Logan chassis, are produced in Romania and the bodies are Renault-made. The American claims that around 100 electric cars will arrive to the US from Romania and that he will try to sell them in 28 American states.
Nevertheless, a series of details need to be treated with caution. The prices for US are rather high, namely 33,000 dollars for a van, 34,000 for the pick-up and 38,000 dollars for the break model. The prices are far from being low-cost, even if it is common knowledge that electric cars are more expensive than the ones running on fuel engine.
In the US, new pick-up models can be bought for 20,000 dollars, which makes the selling of the cars allegedly from Romania more difficult. There are quite a few producers working on electric cars, but have not launched them yet because the
