Zhirinovsky's personal car - what happened to the rarest "Yo-mobile"
"Yo-mobile" was an ambitious project in the Russian history of automobile manufacturing. The domestic development was supposed to have advanced technologies that had no analogues in the world. At the same time, a fairly democratic price (by today's standards) of 500 thousand rubles was planned. However, the car was never launched into serial production. It was expected that "Yo-mobile" would receive different configurations of the power plant. Among them could be a rotary vane engine, which no one had used before in the automobile industry. In addition, hybrid schemes were also mentioned. A motor running on two types of fuel - gasoline and methane - would be used as a generator. However, the configuration that finally saw Russian roads was electric.
Today, only three copies of the "Yo-mobile" on "green" energy are known. One of them belonged to the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky. This car has a short, but interesting history. During the televised debates of Vladimir Volfovich with the owner of the "Yo-mobile" project Mikhail Prokhorov, the former repeatedly mentioned that he was promised to give this car. Mikhail Dmitrievich kept his word and returned the "debt" to the politician. However, electric car drove only 500 km, and then its battery stopped charging. The specimen could not be repaired, because spare parts were never produced. Now the car is in a museum cars Zhirinovsky. You can learn more about the history of the "Yo-mobile" and examine it in detail in the video on the YouTube channel "PrivetTachka".
Today, only three copies of the "Yo-mobile" on "green" energy are known. One of them belonged to the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky. This car has a short, but interesting history. During the televised debates of Vladimir Volfovich with the owner of the "Yo-mobile" project Mikhail Prokhorov, the former repeatedly mentioned that he was promised to give this car. Mikhail Dmitrievich kept his word and returned the "debt" to the politician. However, electric car drove only 500 km, and then its battery stopped charging. The specimen could not be repaired, because spare parts were never produced. Now the car is in a museum cars Zhirinovsky. You can learn more about the history of the "Yo-mobile" and examine it in detail in the video on the YouTube channel "PrivetTachka".
- Vic Samoylik
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