The vehicle having the shape of a bubble will appear on Paris streets next week which billionaire entrepreneur Vincent Bollore hopes will help clear the traffic-clogged arteries of the French capital as well as providing a charge to his nascent battery business.
The vehicle will be electrically powered Autolib and available for hire in a two-month trial starting from October 2 at 4 to 8 Euros per half hour to motorists prepared to pay a membership fee starting at 10 Euros for a day of driving.The 235 million euro ($321 million) project is the brainchild of Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, who hopes to duplicate the success of Velib, the bicycle-sharing scheme he launched in 2007 and which has been copied by several cities in France and abroad.
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