Posted on 10/19/2011 10:14:19 AM PDT by smokingfrog
"Marty, you've got to come back with me! Back to the future!"
It is one of those great bits from film history -- Doc Brown, the mad genius inventor from 1985's "Back to the Future," builds a time machine out of that iconic-but-failed sports car of the early 1980s, the DeLorean DMC-12.
There is still a DeLorean Motor Co. of Humble, Texas, which supplies parts and occasionally builds new cars for DeLorean lovers, and it has now announced a new version -- a DeLorean powered entirely by electricity.
"The car of the future has really become the car of the future," joked James Espey, a vice president at DeLorean, which has about 60 employees.
So far, said Espey, the company has retrofitted one car with an electric motor. If all goes well, he said, the company would start selling built-to-order electric DeLoreans around 2013. The sticker price (if a custom-built car can have a sticker): about $90,000.
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Will probably have a miniature pot farm in the back, for medical reasons only, of course.
Does it come with a Mr. Fusion to charge the flux capacitors?
I heard that they had to recall the Delorean because it kept sucking up the white lines on the highway.
Lived around here for almost thirty years and did not know of this company in Humble.
You can see it from the overpass at Beltway 8 and 59.
1.21 Gigawatts??!?!?!
If it did, it might be worth the $90K.
Financed with cocaine from a CARtel near you.
Ouch!
I sense stimulus money at work....
Ah, a joke from the Reagan era. It's kind of soothing. :-)
It runs on electricity. The only problem is you have to know when and where the lightning is going to strike.
Gas? where we are goign we don’t need Gas....
But we still need coal plants to charge the batteries and a LOT more time at the filling station/outlet to wait for the damned thing to recharge....
The batteries are to be supplied by a company that goes by the name "Flux Power".
I saw a Delorean on the road here in Indy this past weekend.
Quite amazing odds, 1 of 9000 or so built, and how many are actually running?
I believe in unicorns, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, but I will never believe in a DeLorean reaching 88 mph.
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