Hotzenblitz was a small German electric city car developed by Hotzenblitz-Mobile GmbH & Co. KG in Ibach and produced under contract at the Simson works in Suhl from 1993 to 1996. The two-seat microcar (with an occasional rear bench) used a tubular steel frame with an aluminum sandwich floor and GRP bodywork, powered by an AC induction motor rated at 12 kW (16.5 kW peak). Standard lead-gel traction batteries (14×12 V, about 10 kWh) yielded…