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Piech Automotive Readies Electric Sports Car Concept

Swiss-based startup Piech Holding AG, which plans to launch a range of performance-oriented electric vehicles, will take the wraps off its first concept model at next week’s Geneva auto show.
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Swiss-based startup Piech Holding AG, which plans to launch a range of performance-oriented electric vehicles, will take the wraps off its first concept model at next week’s Geneva auto show.

The 2-year-old company is headed by Anton Piech and entrepreneur Rea Stark Rajcic. The 44-year-old Piech is the son of former Volkswagen Group chairman Ferdinand Piech and great-grandson of Ferdinand Porsche.

Dubbed the Mark Zero, the two-seat concept vehicle is built on a modular platform that is also is expected to carry a sedan and sporty SUV/crossover in coming years.

The battery will be packaged along the transmission tunnel and rear axle.

Piech says the Mark Zero will weigh 1,800 kg (4,000 lbs) and have a driving range of 500 km (310 miles). The startup claims to have 200 employees.

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