There will be no shortage of automakers revealing electric concept cars at the Geneva motor show next week, but you probably haven't heard of one of them, even if the name will ring a bell. A car company launched by Anton Piëch, the son of the admiral of the German automotive industry Ferdinand Piëch — seems wrong to merely call him a captain of industry — will present an electric coupe in Geneva dubbed the Piëch Mark Zero. Sketches of the sleek coupe, which if you squint hard enough looks like a remix of Porsche 911 (of course) and Aston Martin design cues, were "leaked" on social media a few days ago.
The Swiss company, officially named Piëch Automotive, will present this coupe, boasting a 500 kilometer (310-mile) range and a curb weight of less than 1,800 kilograms (3,968 pounds) next week, according to Auto Express. Instead of housing its battery underneath the floor, the Mark Zero will stuff it into the transmission tunnel, Volt-style, as well as near the rear axle. The automaker will reportedly use a modular architecture that it will share with others, which will allow different powertrains to be fitted including old-fashioned gasoline-burning ones, hybrid powertrains and even fuel cells, Auto Express notes. Well, there is all that space under the long hood, after all.
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