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Tzero Electric Car: 0-60 in 3.7 Seconds

Posted by michael on from the burning-rubber dept.

If you have a spare 6,800 lithium-ion laptop batteries lying around, you can build your own electric sports car.

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  1. What they don't tell you is... by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could only measure 0-60 because at 4 seconds, the li-ion batteries are all dead.

    1. Re:What they don't tell you is... by Illbay · · Score: 3, Funny

      So if you don't run the car for at least the full 4 seconds every time, does it eventually only get up to about 30 mph because of that "battery memory" problem?

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      Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
  2. 100% of torque at 0 rpm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good engine good.

  3. Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry for the troll.

    Yay, I love watching 500 laps of people driving in a circle. Woo-hoo. I prefer rallying. If NASCAR cars had passengers, it'd go like this:

    "Left. Straight. Left. Straight. Right. NO NO, I WAS KIDDING!"

  4. Re:Another article... by rmohr02 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why are electric cars always so damned ugly?
    Well, if you're the type of person who has "6,800 lithium-ion laptop batteries lying around", you probably don't concern yourself with how your car looks.
  5. New Limited Edition Scotty Model by tds67 · · Score: 5, Funny
    However, with the single-gear Tzero's engine limited to just over 100 m.p.h. at 13,300 r.p.m.'s, it will never win an oval-track race against those supercars.

    Unless of course you purchase the Scotty model, which comes with a guy in a red shirt (who surprisingly doesn't die) who rides shotgun, takes requests/orders from the driver to improve performance, whines about how the (di)lithium crystal batteries won't take the stress, then after a few tense seconds gets the car going 30 m.p.h. faster than it's rated to go.

  6. I've always found that line voltage works better by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's cheap, reliable, readily available, doesn't require batteries, thus saving money, weight and complexity.

    I haven't been able to thoroughly test my prototype though. It keeps losing power suddenly every time I get 100 feet from my house.

    If I can just work out that one little bug. . .

    KFG