Italdesign Giugiaro

It seems like almost every month or so a new start-up, often with roots tied up with a huge manufacturing conglomerate based in China, announces ambitious plans to launch a new generation of advanced hybrid or electric vehicles. Some of them become somewhat successful, like Coda, while others appear to be nothing more than pie in the sky, like V-Vehicle for example. Today, we have news of one of the most ambitious start-ups we’ve ever come across. The firm in question is Hybrid Kinetic Motors Corp. and its founder is a man formerly known as Yang Rong--he now goes by the name Benjamin...