NYC's 19th-Century Horse Carriages Spawn Weird, Truck-Size Electric Car

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 21, 2014 @07:25AM from the origin-story dept.

cartechboy (2660665) writes "Led by Tesla, electric cars are all the rage now. And the idea of a nine-passenger all-electric vehicle sounds good--until you learn that it maxes out at 30 mph, weighs almost four tons, and costs in the six figures. What is this monstrosity? It's the Frankenstein creation of a group of animal-rights advocates, who are proposing it as the replacement for New York City's fabled horse carriages--and who paid $450,000 to have a prototype built. Who's against it? Would you believe Liam Neeson and one of NYC's daily papers? The huge electric car--modeled after an early 1900s open touring car, complete with brass lanterns--is on display this week at the New York Auto Show, and it's certainly attracting its share of attention."

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is all madness by rewindustry · 2014-04-21 08:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

we now live in a world where the car kills more children than anything else, and i don't know about you, but according to the real live property laws in the land where i live, the ONLY allotted space for pedestrians is a strip one and a half meters wide ALONGSIDE the edge of the highway.
there is literally no other legal way to get from one place to another, entirely everywhere else is property.
mad, quite mad - the whole plastic footed metal space bug lot of you.