100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 17, 2008 @04:54AM 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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Re:Why no go back to horses sometime? by jandrese · 2008-03-17 06:04 · 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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Re:Such a lovely place, that Eastern front by Anonymous Coward · 2008-03-17 07:12 · Score: 5, Funny

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