Written on April 7, 2009 – 5:23 pm | by Maria Mihale |
Let’s see what happens when two very well known companies decide to join their forces in order to come up with a product that is expected to make them both even more famous than they are already. American car manufacturer called General Motors began a collaboration with scooter maker Segway because they wanted to create a two-seat electric vehicle.



The vehicle that the two companies came up with is called P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility) and it’s expected to revolutionize the electric transportation. Even if, for the moment, the vehicle is only said to make its debut in New York, being targeted at the urban driving, General Motors put its hopes quite up about releasing the P.U.M.A. by the year 2012.



The vehicle comes with lithium-ion batteries that provide a 35-mile range. As for the maximum speed, it can reach no more than 35 miles per hour, which is more than enough for city cruisers. Anyway, the director of the project for General Motors, Chris Borroni-Bird, said that the P.U.M.A. will probably be very successful in cities with a very high density of people, like those from the most populated countries in the whole world, India and China. Not to mention the fact that the American market, so very fond of the cars, it’s not prepared to give up on them in the favor of two-wheel vehicles.



The bad part is that the vehicle won’t get to market very soon and it isn’t very difficult to imagine why. Too bad.