It can go 155 mph while carrying 23 passengers. Love those gull wing doors!
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Green GT electric race car Plugincars has a full report from Monaco. It’ll do 20 mph, but maybe much faster if you upgrade to 36V drills. Seriously. Scoble profiles IBM’s research into lithium air batteries for cars. [IBM] hopes to have a lithium air battery in cars by 2020. A battery that could power a car for 500 miles would certainly be worth the wait. TGMY converted the already stunning Mitsuoka Himiko to full electric. The banks of lithium polymer batteries give it a claimed range of 341 miles, far more than any other EV. Not available commercially yet. Hopefully soon! They are testing 450 of them in the States and found, among others things, that extreme cold or heat lessen the range on the battery. What they’ve learned will be used in future iterations of the car before it becomes available to all. The dirty little secret of plug-in vehicles is that they’ll all charge their batteries with inherently dirty night-time power and be responsible for more CO2 emissions than a fuel efficient Prius-class HEV that costs a third less and doesn’t have any pesky issues with plugs, charging infrastructure or range limitations. The [Wheego] LiFe two-seater has a price tag of $32,995 (only $25,495 after the $7,500 tax credit) has a range of 100 miles per charge, is made of 75% U.S. content and is assembled in Ontario, California. Clearly the populace is too dumb to make allowances when their EV (or hybrid running on the electric motor) is silent and thus pedestrians might not hear you coming, so in the future such vehicles will now have noise-adding “features” thanks to our over-protective nannies in Congress. Ptui. I’ve driven a Prius since October 2000 [...] The Miluira from Takayanagi in Japan is a gloriously impractical one-seater EV with a top speed of 37 and a range of 22 miles. And you know you want one. |  | ||||
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