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Electric Car Capable of 180mph

Posted by michael on from the burning-rubber dept.

niclas_b writes "This electric car is pretty cool. It's not cheap and maybe not very practical. But very cool nevertheless." Might as well throw in a link to their homepage as well.

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  1. Something's Wrong... by BaconLT · · Score: 5, Funny
    I think the link is broken, it took me to a picture of the car in Demolition Man.

    Maybe it was Total Recall, not sure.

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  2. what do you mean not very practical? by ashkar · · Score: 5, Funny
    • Potential Uses
    • Prom
    • Groceries
    • Emergency Power Backup
    • Ho-Mobile (the chicks dig it and there's a big back seat)
    • Making all the NOPI kids cry when you beat them
    1. Re:what do you mean not very practical? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I get e-mail every day telling me what girls like. They would like this vehicle, I think.

  3. That is the godawfulest looking thing ever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I mean, I'm sorry. Seriously. The specifications are interesting, it looks like a great tech advance. But did they have to make it look so silly? Even a 1978 Monte Carlo is better looking than this beast.

  4. checked out the pics... by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parallel parking that thing is gonna be a bitch. :)

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    1. Re:checked out the pics... by AGMW · · Score: 5, Funny
      Just ask yer husband to park it for you.

      :-)

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  5. Re:How is that useful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have no autobahn, you insensitive clod.

  6. Sorry, but... by Snarfvs+Maximvs · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that's a really fast electric *RV*. Not an electric car. THIS is a really fast electric *CAR*:

    http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_ho me .htm

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  7. At last! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    The mother of the Pontiac Aztek has been found! The dad is the new Cadillac.

  8. Re:How is that useful? by GMontag451 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Drinking and Driving still kills more people than speed.

    Yeah, but you ever notice how drunk drivers never seem to hurt themselves or any of the other drunks out on the roads at 2 AM when the bars close, but only sober drivers? I think everyone should be driving drunk and we'd see a large decrease in the number of auto deaths.

  9. I just cant shake the feeling thats its just a CGI by rufusdufus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep looking at the photographs and can't shake the feeling that what we are really seeing is the class project for realistic computer graphics. The car is just too glossy and perfect looking, even inside.

    Maybe I'm just getting paranoid, because of this Beetle

  10. Re:Umm..... right. by AGMW · · Score: 2, Funny
    Electric cars have enourmous torque from zero revs, and most have to use clever electronics to prevent over enthusiastic drivers from lighting up the tires when they stomp on the go pedal. ... and this baby is large and heavy! I bet they thought "must have 4wd", then thought "outside the box" [picture fingers outlining box shape in air] - hey 6WD!

    OH YER!

    If that mother can put down 1000HP through 6 wheels, I bet it takes off like a scalded cat!

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  11. Re:Woah... by MADCOWbeserk · · Score: 5, Funny

    My '99 Caddilac STS can sure as hell hit 150, I've done it many times between here and NYC.

    Can I mod this guy as Fucking Nuts...

  12. Re:Nearly 1000 horsepower! by hplasm · · Score: 1, Funny
    Pontiac Gran Safari

    Wow. Do they all hunt their ancestors in the USA? (picture huge car with extended huntin' shootin' chair....)

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  13. Re:National Electric Drag Racing Association by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >> Sigh... why in the world would you want to make a bus go 180/190 mph?

    These are the same people who are overclocking CPU's.