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Swiss-based meeco Group supports e-mobility pioneering work

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September 11, 2012

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The meeco Group sponsored Electric Motorcycle team MUENCH Racing is double champion

In the third season of the electric motorcycle championships, the German MUENCH Racing Team competed again against teams from the USA, Europe and Asia. Matthias Himmelmann, the champion has kept his electric motorcycles crown. Last Friday, he masterfully won the FIM e-Power International Championship race series and the European TTXGP Championship for the second year in a row.

Thanks to a second place in the final race, the driver of the German MUENCH Racing team, which is sponsored by The meeco Group, secured the title of the two major electric motorcycle racing series FIM e-Power International and TTXGP European Championship. His teammate Katja Poensgen made the double victory perfect and thus ranked second of the overall FIM ranking.

Thomas Petsch, visionary manager of the team commented on the victory: “We have achieved a great deal with limited financial means once again. The whole team has done an excellent job, which was only made possible by our sponsors. We are on the right track and our pioneering work shows that electric mobility is on the rise in Germany and beyond.”

„I’m very happy to see how MÜNCH has become a strong player in its field. The meeco Group has been supporting the team since the very beginning in 2010 both emotionally and financially. We’ve seen that the biggest steps forward in improving the technology have again and again happened in racing conditions, and this is a fact that MÜNCH made clear at Le Mans“, comments Dieter Trutschler, Sales Director of The meeco Group.

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