Indonesia creation of electric car project apparently still ongoing. But that does not mean the public can freely know the development of projects that supposedly supported by the BUMN Minister Dahlan Iskan.
"To be honest for us it did not a problem. But we did not commanded to advance stories about (the project of) this car," said Rudi Purnomo, the owner of the garage modifications Kupu-kupu Malam Auto Custom which handles of this project.
This information is retrieved by dapurpacu.com when visiting the workshop of the car manufacturing located at the District road Km. 3.5 No. 50A, Sleman, Yogyakarta. It's just Dapurpacu.com not allowed to peek at the making car process.
Rudi provide little information on the concept that appointed for this electric car of Indonesia. For the generally people of this sounds as an extraordinary development in the automotive world.
Rudi said, that the electric car was designed by Danet Suryatama. With 3-dimensional design sketches, pictures of this car reminds us of a figure of Lexus 2054 concept car made for the movie "Minority Report" is played by actor Tom Cruise.
As already known, the car are made as orders film director Stevel Spielberg in 2002 is also conceptualized as an electric vehicle powered 500 kilowatts.
Although the form of sketch work of Danet same with Lexus "Minority Report", but the details of the design looks different. The design on the front grill and headlights, for example, made in such a way that it looks different.
But the work of Danet also wear seats with bucket models like the Lexus "Minority Report." The same thing happened on the use of bloated fender design with rounded curves.
Rudi said, design sketches made by Danet it is an electric sports car. With the color blue, the concept is named as "Tecuxi" which means "Dolphins."
Texuci was taken from the Tupi language, a tribe in Brazil, for the dolphins that live in the Amazon basin.
For this reason, the front of the car Texuci made like a dolphin shape: large front and narrowed behind. Curvature of the roof line also follow the water mammal body posture.
The plan, a sports car Texuci will install four individual seats. The door is designed to be opened up, like scissors. Although Rudi has not been explained the engine and propulsion system that will be used, but he explained that Texuci will be able to run up to 220 km / h.
Sources of Dapurpacu.com
