World’s fastest production car to go electric – with “several years between charging”

Gizmag.com ^ | 09/24/08 | Gizmag.com

[Reaganesque]

September 24, 2008 Last week saw the one year anniversary of SSC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma ’s Ulimate Aero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AERO becoming the fastest production car in the world at 256.18 mph, pushing past marks set by Koenigsegg’s CCR and Bugatti’s Veyron. It’s the first time the top speed record has stood for a whole year since McLaren’s F1 held it for seven years with 386.4 kmh (240.1mph). Now comes news that an Ultimate Aero EV (Electric Vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle ) is in development. A 500 bhp EV is planned for late 2009 and a 1000 bhp 4WD EV is also under consideration. Now here’s the kicker – the press statement reads: “The drive train under development will feature a revolutionary power source allowing for extended time between charging intervals with the possibility of several years between charging.”

The anniversary date was September 13 to be exact, but it’s the prospect of the first 100% Green Supercar How-to-Import-Your-Own-Supercar that is interesting. Engineering details are yet undisclosed but SSC expects to roll out its first prototype in February 2009. As for the revolutionary drive train, well, we have no idea what is planned and … we’ll suspend disbelief in respect of the company’s proven ability to do exactly what it has said it will do in the past. A track record as good as SSC’s gives this otherwise ridiculous claim some credibility, though it’ll need to be pretty special to run a few years between charges – maybe it’s a micro-nuclear powerplant,

"I think we can do it faster, leaner and cleaner than any other manufacturer" says Jerod Shelby, SSC Founder.

Consistent with its company philosophy of being the benchmark, SSC plans next to break the record for the fastest electric car Innovation-At-Big-Companies Dec-07 in the world.

[steve86]

Unfortunately, the driver of the SSC in that record run died a couple months ago in an ultralight test. I got to the airport about 30 minutes later.

[steve86]

Actually meant “ultralight crash”. Chuck Bigelow, 71, was a well-liked man.

[Kevmo]

for the renewable energy ping list

Several years between charges — reminds me of the Segway. Lotta hype, will it deliver? Only their barber knows for sure.

[DoughtyOne]

If I had a dollar for every projected new scientific breakthrough that was just around the corner, that never materialized, I’d have two or three dollars... well maybe twenty.

It would be nice. I’m looking forward to the February revelation that probably won’t come. LOL

Okay maybe it will.

[uncle fenders]

you know the segway gets a bad rap, but I sort of thought they might build the first widely available robot off of its platform...

The car is VERY cool.

And the driver/pilot must have been an incredible man to be so active on the cutting edge into his 70’s ...Da*mn I should be so lucky !

[Lazarus Starr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

[LomanBill]

[had the envirofags and such not killed nuclear power in this country a long time ago.]

 

True, but incomplete...

 

Wanna get really irritated?  Look at who has been funding the environmentalists.

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/999451/posts?page=67#67

 

Why? 

 

Supply+Demand=Price  

 

That and, apparently,  a bit of residual Royal angst regarding a little Tea party, some, oh 232 odd years ago - in 1776.

[yazoo]

I am skeptical. Years between charges is only part of the issue since it doesn’t say how many miles between charges. I am not aware of any current battery technology in which batteries can hold a charge for that long even without being used. Battery development tends to be incremental and to come up with such a dramatically advanced battery out of the blue is questionable.

[Yo-Yo]

Mr. Fusion?