The General Motors EN-V is a hatchback from GM (General Motors), built from 2011 to 2014, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
The background
General Motors EN-V (Electric Networked-Vehicle) is a 2-seat urban electric concept car jointly developed by Segway Inc. and General Motors that can be driven normally or operated autonomously. Designed for urban environments and around an extrapolation of the P.U.M.A.
prototype announced by GM and Segway in 2009, the EN-V was unveiled at the joint GM & SAIC pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai from 1 May through 31 October 2010. Three different vehicles are showcased, 笑 Xiao (Laugh), 骄 Jiao (Pride) and 妙 Miao (Magic). In October 2011 General Motors announced its decision to develop a second concept EN-V under the Chevrolet badge for use in field testing and demonstration programs, beginning in Tianjin, China. In June 2014 General Motors announced it would commence testing of the four wheel EN-V 2.0 at the Tianjin Eco-city
Under the skin
The record carries the shape — a hatchback. The engine, output and weight have not yet reached the open record, and MotorJury does not guess at them.
Where it sits
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lamborghini Aventador, the Nissan Leaf, the Jeep Grand Cherokee — show what else the money bought that year. Its GM (General Motors) stablemates include the 1955 Chevrolet and the 1957 Chevrolet.