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The Yo-mobil ( rus, ё-мобиль, p=ˈjɵ mɐˈbʲilʲ) was a planned
series
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type
hybrid electric car
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that was going to be produced by the
Russia
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n ''Yo-auto''. The company was a joint venture between
SKD truck maker
Yarovit
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and the
ONEXIM
Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov ( rus, Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈproxərəf; born 3 May 1965) is a Russian-Israeli oligarch, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. I ...
investment group.
On 7 April 2014 it was announced that the project was sold to the Russian government for €1. , no production vehicles were ever produced.
Background
The car was introduced on 13 December 2010 in
Moscow
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, a product of a joint venture between Yarovit, owner of a small assembly plant in
St. Petersburg, Russia
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
and the Onexim investment group, headed by
Mikhail Prokhorov
Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov ( rus, Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈproxərəf; born 3 May 1965) is a Russian-Israeli oligarch, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. I ...
, who is the leader and financier of the project.
Prokhorov planned to invest around
€
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150 million (
US$
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200 million) in a venture, dubbed Yo-auto.
According to Prokhorov, he intended for the vehicle to "break the stereotype saying Russia can't produce good cars."
Design
The car was designed to be powered by an engine that can burn both
gasoline
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and
natural gas
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. The
series hybrid no-transmission layout uses an
electric generator
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that feeds its power directly into the car's two rear electric motors, unlike parallel hybrid cars like the
Toyota Prius
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.
A
super capacitor would provide a small but powerful energy buffer. It was planned to install a
rotary vane type engine, with the pistons moving in a circle, rather than linearly.
The design includes a plastic body that can be recycled to make other structural components. Another feature is the ability for the vehicle to become a 20 kW power station for a house or business during a grid failure.
Fuel economy of the car was expected to be around , with a range of and a top speed of .
However, no tests were conducted due to the lack of working examples.
Criticism
The project has been criticized by Russian automotive specialists.
for a number of reasons:
* Overly ambitious plans for a company that has never designed or produced vehicles before;
Yarovit
Yarovit, Iarovit (or Yerovit, Ierovit) is a Polabian god of war, worshipped in Vologošč ( Circipanians) and Hobolin ( Hobolians; modern Havelberg). Sources give only a brief description of his cult, his main temple was located in Vologošč, w ...
only did
Complete knock down
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assembly of trucks based on large
Terberg components.
* Designing a vehicle around high-tech components (engine) that do not exist even in experimental status
* High center of gravity, making it susceptible to roll-over
* Archaic design, resembling go-carts by its body and mining equipment by the drivetrain
* Use of
capacitor
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s as power storage devices which have numerous
disadvantages and may become
dangerous
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in certain circumstances
* Dynamic driving properties declared earlier may not match practicals due to power leak caused by additional electric equipment (like lights, air conditioning etc.).
* No physical safety tests results were announced as of June 2012.
The inventor of the engine Mikhail Virgiyanov in an open letter to the company later refused to continue work on the engine and accused the company of copyright infringement.
History
Yo-auto initially planned to begin producing the car during the second half of 2012,
and had aims to sell 10,000 during the first year of production.
However, these plans were revised in 2012, with the estimated start of production was moved to early 2015, a plan that never came to fruition.
While it will be initially sold in Russia, Yo-auto planned to sell the vehicle in Europe subject to compliance with
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regulations.
The cars was to be manufactured in a factory near St. Petersburg that would have an estimated annual capacity of 45,000 units. A second factory, to be opened later, was expected to double the annual production rate.
However, these plans were also revised in 2013, with the estimated total annual production rate were targeted at 40,000 units.
In late 2011, Vietnamese company TMT and Yo-auto announced plans to develop a line of 2-8 seat cars for the Vietnam market, developed from the Yo-mobil platform.
![Yo-conc2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Yo-conc2.JPG)
At the 2011
Frankfurt Motor Show
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, yo-Auto presented a concept yo-mobil with sliding doors. Instead of mirrors, the concept utilized a pair of video cameras for rear view vision.
In 2012
Mikhail Prokhorov
Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov ( rus, Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈproxərəf; born 3 May 1965) is a Russian-Israeli oligarch, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. I ...
presented
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, ''né'' Eidelshtein (russian: link=false, Эйдельштейн) (25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian right-wing populist politician and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) f ...
of the
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party with a gift of an advanced model of the Ё-Mobile, the ''ё-Crossback'' EV, for his 2012 election campaign.
Прохоров подарил Жириновскому "ё-мобиль"
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In August 2013 the official website o
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has been started, it is offline as of August 2017.
On 7 April 2014 ONEXIM announced the transfer of Yo-Mobile technologies to the government-owned research institute NAMI for a symbolical price of 1 euro. It also announced its intention to sell the Yo-Mobile Saint-Petersburg plants. ONEXIM explained the decision by the weakening of the Russian rouble
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and recent decline of the auto-market in Russia.
References
External links
*
Onexim Group
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