Zero to 18,000 mph in a few minutes, but I suspect that it's no longer all electric.
Posted on 02/18/2018 8:08:09 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
It’s an electric supercar from Japan that packs some serious performance and technology. The video, from Gigazine on YouTube, shows the Owl hitting 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in just 1.9 seconds. That’s quicker than what Tesla is claiming for the new Roadster, which Tesla says hits 60 mph (96 kph) in 1.9 seconds. The speed run begins at the 1:06 mark in the video above with verification of the car’s supercars at the 3:17 mark.
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Not to mention beating the red light.
Actually, it’s more like 240 m.p.h. Pity the flying prey it is hunting. Ouch!
Sorry, these Owls only go forward. With reverse it’s 600,000 more.
After a bit more research: it’s more like 270 m.p.h.
Zero to 18,000 mph in a few minutes, but I suspect that it's no longer all electric.
4.4 million and the brake lights don’t even work.
It will take an half hour to squeeze into that.
With help.
Yeah, they’d have looked pretty stupid if the test driver had not gotten it stopped. Would have been an “Epic Fail”. How do you say that in Japanese?
“Perhaps, Mmmm. But, you know, this is the one. Yes, yes yes... I saw three of these parked outside the local Starbucks this morning, which tells me only one thing. There’s too many self-Indulgent wieners in this city with too much bloody money! Now, if I was driving a 1967 275 GTB four-cam...”
And the batteries? One of the most toxic industries there is.
Just like Tesla, they have a few minor issues that will be completely addressed when in full production.
Nothing to worry about.
Have you discarded the battery from your daily driver?
Do your headlights dim much at idle?
Or do you turn them off at low R’s to maintain power for the ignition and F.I.?
My vehicle can drive vertically up mountainsides, and over boulders, and faster than the speed limit on interstates so I win
Apparently, the engineers were very confident in the brakes. I know that land is scarce in parts of Japan but that was a disaster waiting to happen.
WOW! An electric motor can turn REAL fast when you drastically reduce its friction.
Who wooda thunk it.
“Get the cigarette lighter fixed.”
Are you seriously expecting 0-60 in 1.9 for $44,000?
When the competing example is $4,400,000?
That car would be able to do about 15 MPH, and have to get body and frame work done after driving on Houston streets.
And it sounded like my ol’ 1980’s RC cars taking off. Ugh.
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