Located in Imola, craddle of the Italian automotive industry offering an amazing concentration of engineering talent, Micro-Vett is today one of the leading European companies with top level expertise in the field of electric vehicles. Micro-Vett's technology is based on strategic choices, concerning the conception of vehicles and the electric traction system.

Micro-Vett deliberately chose to use standard vehicles produced by major manufacturers. Their capacities and reliability benefit from professionals' and consumers' recognition. Standard vehicles have several impacts:

1. Logistic and technical impact: chassis, bodywork, spare parts (for non-electric systems) are easily available. Car manufacturers can reply rapidly to increased demands, thanks to their production logistics.

2. Technological impact: using standard vehicles guarantees the availability of all the latest technologies (ABS, airbags, EPS,etc.).

3. Economical impact: thanks to the economies of scale gained by mass-production, standard vehicles are far less expensive than vehicles produced in limited production runs (for non-electrical systems).

4. Psychological impact: the passage to electric vehicles requires major changes in terms of driving, maintenance, habits, etc... Using standard vehicles minimises this impact and avoids overwhelming the new user or technician. Micro-Vett designs and develops electric vehicles that can be easily adopted and used by everyone.

Since 1987, Micro-Vett's engineers have been developing, integrating and testing high-end technology for electric car traction.

• Electric motor: Thanks to over twenty years of experience, Micro-Vett benefits from strong relationships with electric motor manufacturers. Micro-Vett is regularly consulted for its expertise in the development of new motors. This excellent knowledge of the market enables Micro-Vett to always select the motor best-suited to each vehicle, depending on parameters such as weight, payload, desired performances...

• Batteries: the new generation of batteries – lithium batteries – has allowed a major advance in the field of electric vehicles:

- No more memory effect
- Easy and rapid charging
- Equivalent power of a lead battery at 25% of the weight and volume
- Approximately 3 times as many charge/discharge cycles and therefore a longer battery life
- Far greater efficiency under stress (such as on a steep slope) leading to far greater vehicle autonomy

Micro-Vett developed and tested the electronic control system of Thundersky batteries (BMS) over a period of three years and now uses the latest models of lithium-phosphate batteries. Micro-Vett now integrates this technology in its vehicles, giving remarkable performances figures, close to those of endothermic vehicles.

The R&D Department at Micro-Vett is already working on the future generations of batteries that will equip Micro-Vett's vehicles in the years and decades to come.

Electronic control system: a major part of Micro-Vett's know-how is defined by its electronic control system. This “brain” carries out battery diagnostics, identifies potential problems, controls the charging of batteries, etc. Micro-Vett's electronic control system guarantees the reliability and the security of its vehicles.

- Twenty years of experience, research and development and dedication to electric vehicles.

- The industrialization of electric vehicles: Micro-Vett vehicles are not prototypes but are mass-produced.

- Over 4000 vehicles running everyday

- A return rate (during guarantee period) of 0,88%

- Support of the ADEME (French Agency for Environment)

- The trust of premium customers: Rome, Oslo, Stockholm, Monaco, Cannes, Disneyland Paris, DHL, the Italian Post Office...