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100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the they-do-make-em-like-they-used-to dept.

CNet's Green Tech Blog is reporting that Detroit Electric plans to release a small number of cars based around a car designed nearly 100 years ago. Detroit Electric is a joint venture between Santa Rosa, CA-based electric transportation specialist, Zap and China's Youngman motors. "Back in 1917, a Detroit Electric cost anywhere from $1,775 to $2,375--in other words, fit for the proletarian or plutocrat. The cars could go 65 miles to 100 miles on a battery charge, but only go at speeds ranging from 6 miles per hour to 25 mph."

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  1. 6mph - 25mph???? by kellyb9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe, the electric car is making a comeback... but it's making a very, very, very slooooooooooooow comeback.

  2. Re:I've heard of these things... by hansamurai · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should see them running on alcohol, now that's a trip.

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  3. Bah! The human body won't survive higher speeds! by cruff · · Score: 2, Funny

    No one will be able to live at 50 MPH! You won't be able to breathe at that speed. Best that they limit it to 25 MPH. If (insert favorite deity here) had meant for humans to go that fast, (deity) would have given them wings!

  4. Re:So... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who Killed the Electric car?? Who made Steve Gutenberg... a STARRRRR!!!

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  5. Re:Why no go back to horses sometime? by jandrese · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know if it's true, but I heard awhile back that Horses generally can only put out about 3/4 of a horsepower. Turns out when they were defining the spec the farmer lied about his horse.

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  6. Re:Such a lovely place, that Eastern front by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    more people died prior to the year 2000 than any other time in history

  7. 6 to 25 MPH by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    No problem. That seems to be about the same top speed as most of the Cadillacs weaving around my town.

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  8. Seinfeld on horsepower by Nerdposeur · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reminds me of Seinfeld's take on the subject.

    I get out of a car that has 300 horsepower so I can sit on an animal that has one. Why do we even use the term 'horsepower'? Is that to further humiliate horses? The space-shuttle rockets have 20 million horsepower. Is there any point in still comparing it... to the horses? Any chance of going back to using rockets with horses, trying to keep track of how many we're gonna need? "Hey, horse. There's a rocket engine that broke down. Can you get 20 million friends together really fast?"
  9. Re:Such a lovely place, that Eastern front by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny

    And death continues to be our nation's #1 killer.

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  10. Re:And this is being brought back why? by eln · · Score: 2, Funny

    but it does encourage one to read the article. ;) What, and ruin my Cal Ripken-like streak of non article readage? Never!
  11. Re:Why no go back to horses sometime? by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is a lot of horse shit....

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