[JoeProBono]

[GreyFriar]

Tesla Ping

[tutstar]

gnip...

[Tarpon]

I wonder if they realize batteries have about 1/11 the energy storage of a gallon of gasoline. Maybe that’s why the eight wheels?

Why exactly does it need eight wheels?

[bpjam]

yeah, that ought to fit into a parking space at Best Buy....

Wake me when there is an electric car which makes sense. I’ll be happy to buy one when I don’t have to pay for a lifetimes worth of gas in advance in the purchase price.

[P8riot]

It’s fugly!

[KarlInOhio]

Traditionally, more rolling resistance would be a bad thing, but not if each of the wheels has its own 60 KW electric motor.

8 x 60,000W = 644 horsepower. Me likey.

[sfvgto]

tri-color paint with spinners and you have the pimp@ss ride from hell....this is a ghetto machine all the way, and it takes alot longer to steal 8 wheels

[RexBeach]

Hmmm. Sounds like a great care to be late in!

And, it’s a bargain. A new Bentley costs somewhere around $350,000.00(and it’s only got FOUR wheels).

[TonyStark]

Gerry Anderson Motors presents the "Life Imitating Art" line up:

[Kenny Bunk]

If I use the Purple Fog under-the-car-lights, will it run the batteries down? Also, Jowe, I won’t get no respeckt in da hood if my ride you know like HUMS.

[RobRoy]

That thing looks like it was inspired by the 1960’s Citreon.

Especially the roofline.

[InvisibleChurch]

The car that saved Detroit.

[xcamel]

Fugly Citroen.

[Stevenc131]

The trick isn’t to make a $100,000 - $250,000 electric car, the trick is to make a $15,000 - $20,000 electric car that can compete with a regular Honda Civic in terms of size, comfort, features, etc.

These small, independent companies jumping into the electric car market are finding it very difficult to get anywhere near the $20,000 mark with a high quality electric car, and are thus focusing on expensive sports models.

I think it was 60 Minutes that did a piece on the company making the Tesla, and they admitted that they were overwhelmed by all the details that go into building a car today. The truth is the Tesla went from being a reasonably priced economy type car to a sports car with a $109,000 base price simply because they couldn’t build an economy car at a reasonable price.

[Yo-Yo]

1976 Tyrell P-34 Formula One car

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Gives me a headache looking at it.

[xcamel]

480 kilowatts = 643.690603 hp

[Waco]

AWhen, if, thet get batteries light enough, you could built a car with 2-3 individual battery systems, a solar panel in the roof, behind the grill fans turning battery chargers a computer to control the battery in use, a small gas engine, and you’d probably never need to plug it in, although that would be provided too. The compter would sense when the battery you’re running on was discharged to a certain level and select from the various charging sources or the gas engine to bring the 1st battery back to full charge and swt. back to it etc.

[Labour-Watch]

[frithguild]