Posted on 08/23/2022 5:30:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Shortly after revealing its Alpha5 electric sports car, the revamped DeLorean Motor Company offered the first look at its 2024 “Alpha5 Plasmatail” and 2040 “Omega” concept vehicles at Monterey Car Week. The Alpha5 Plasmatail is the most road-ready of the two, appearing in wagon form with the addition of a stylized rear hatch while maintaining the Alpha5’s original two-gullwing-door configuration. Alternatively, the DeLorean Omega delivers a vision of the distant future as a Baja-themed off-road racer.
While maintaining the sharp aerodynamic lines and thin LED headlights from the Alpha5, specs for the Plasmatail include an estimated zero to 60 mph time of 2.99 seconds and a 100+ kWh battery pack offering more than 300 miles of range. Meanwhile, the 2040 Omega is hailed by DeLorean as a “complete departure from traditional automotive design,” and looks to be something straight out of a cyberpunk video game featuring moon rover-style wheels, a front spoiler, cannon-shaped headlights, no sided mirrors, fin-shaped translucent rear headlights, and a dumbbell-shaped roofline.
With the Alpha5 expected to release in 2024 as its first public offering, look for the new Delorean Motor Company to continue to build out its signature aesthetic.
Coyote ugly.
so I guess he was inspired by fishing.
Donks go electric. :)
Courtesy ping.
If still around...
I applaud the innovation, now I just need a $100,000 tax credit.
No flux capacitor, no sale. I need that feature.
according to the WEF we wont be owning anything so they must be free..
>>Now an electric sports car can be fun, I guess. But you don’t have the rumble of an internal combustion engine. Gotta have that.
You could always put playing cards in the spokes.... :)
Brings back lots of memories.
Delorean is an Entrepreneur that talks big and doesn’t deliver. Part of his attempted success was by sell Drugs.
“ I must have fallen in a Well because paying 60k for a car is not something I could ever do.”
The Ford Mach e I purchased over a year ago had a sticker of $48K, less a $7,500 tax rebate. The “Ford Option” financing has 3 years of lower-than-a-lease monthly payments and if I want to I can hand over the key (yeah, just one) in 2 more years and walk away. I also own a business and since I use the vehicle for work I have additional tax savings.
My previous commuter vehicle, a Grand Cherokee with an 8 cylinder Hemi, would eat $60 to $75 per week with current gas prices. My EV costs me maybe $5 or $6 a week in AC. I just had my 10,000 mile service and my total expenses were rotating the tires twice and an inspection sticker…no emissions sticker required.
The EV is helping my Jeep live longer. I use it for long trips & towing a small trailer…neither of which is smart with an EV.
But it’s not for everybody.
John Delorean is dead and has been for nearly two decades.
The company and its iconic brand is now owned by Stephen Wynne, a British car mechanic from Liverpool, created a separate company based in Humble, Texas, using the DeLorean Motor Company name. Wynne acquired the trademark on the stylized DMC logo, along with the remaining parts inventory of the original DeLorean Motor Company. ..............
Thinking of getting one myself. I like the Mach e, and the Tesla. When I worked in L.A. back in 2019 / 2020 folks I spoke to that had EV’s mentioned the savings on their electric bill vs @ $4.85 a gallon of gas. Ill most likely keep a ICE vehicle so I can make back in forth from Detroit to Memphis in one day :)
My weekly travels takes me hundreds of miles through rural areas where in about half the area don’t even have a cell phone signal. No way I could ever use a ‘current technology’ EV.
If you can find a gas station in 2040.
Just try living with a door that long.
If it swings out, it doesn’t fit in a parking lot. If it swings up, it doesn’t fit in a garage.
More vaporware from the name that brought you the original automotive vaporware.
they promise the jetsons but deliver the flinstones
I always wonder what the solution is for city dwellers. Mile long extension cords? city owned receptacles where people will Shoot you when you disconnect their car for yours? like the snow cleared spots on the street?
The charging stations won’t last long, ANYWHERE.
Thieves will cut the cables to steal the copper....................
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