nice they should make ahybrid version too or liek a hybrid on off switch

A blend of Miata and Elise on steroids… but with a electric motor, sounds interesting! The technology in electric motors seems to be more and more ready to be in a high production car.

It’s going to be silly expensive and there’s no telling what the expected battery life will be,
but it’s definitely a step in the right direction. -mt

can someone tell me how you qualify a mpg rating in a vehicle that does not use gallons of anything?

Thats very sexy, and SliK I agree, it looks very much like an elise, the back b pillar especially.

I’d drive it. But one thing people forget about when it comes to roadsters and sports cars. Half the fun is the sound of the car.

Sweet Mother of Pearl. I want one. I’m a huge electric car fan, car and I’ve been wanting a replacement to my NSX. I would do spectacular things for an invite to that Santa Monica Airport demo.

Wow, a fast golf cart. I wonder if they’d let me have one at the club?

If it don’t burn hydrocarbons, it ain’t a car.

Here is how you calculate mpg in an electric car

Gasoline contains something like 189,000 BTUs of energy per gallon
If this were to be burned in a powerplant, roughly 60% of the energy would be captured
Our electric distribution grid is 90% efficient
An average electric motor is 90% efficient
So….
91,854 BTUs of energy make it into the car, through the wheels, and onto the road.
Convert BTUs into NM
We will say that this number is Y
Calculate the (mass of vehicle) x (rolling resistance)^2 x (coefficient of drag)^3
We will say that last calculation results in X
Divide Y by X and…. hokus pokus you have an MPG figure (actual KmPG)

Yah, but how much?

130mph is certainly not sufficient in Germany I can tell you.

I heard it was going to be quite inexpensive too…around 80,000?

That is quite a deal, assuming…the electronics don’t crap out the first week.

Perfect. Sign me up.

…The Future Is Now…We can finally get off this crack we call gasoline, and not have to pay 3 dollars a gallon for gas…When talking about cars we can finally say “fast” and “efficient” in the same sentence. There is no reason this car shouldn’t do good. Usually fast cars are also polluters, but now we can drive fast cars that are also environmentally friendly.

The only thing I’m afraid of now is electric bills…

nice!!! i wonder how much it will cost i hope its not to expensive and then maybe can convince my dad for one

Nice. But I keep humming “Love will find a way” and “SIgns” from the “Five Man Acoustical Jam” album…

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exactly, jonas… you dont have to pay for gas anymore, but i imagine your electric bill would go through the roof… i imagine making that electricity could involve fossil fuels, so you arent really helping the environment that much… youre riding anoud with almost 7,000 lithium-ion cells, and while lithium isnt particularly toxic, it is still highly flammable… oh, and the thing hasnt ACTUALLY passed a crash test yet…
someday electric cars will be practical for everyone to have… but for now theyre just toys for the rich… which, essentially, is what this is…

Hmm.

Flammable?

I take it you think gasoline is inert?

Most of the cool stuff you use every day started out as toys for the rich. Cell phones, cars, dvd players, tv’s,etc… Man I love rich people.

250 mile range in a single “tank” or “charge” in this case is not that impressive. A lot of cars get that.

nice, keep it up

thats like a rc car in human size

So how much does it cost? If pricy then whtats the point in rejoicing? Anybody knows?

probably $100k…

JN’s got a point. Many everyday items were once just toys for the rich. Eventually electric motorcars may become practical and affordable, we shall see. I’d buy one of those though if it were $50k and safe. That’s doubtful, though, because it’s way too light…

its ligh tbut you gotta consider it loses alot of weigh tfrom the engine and fuel tank and oil and all that stuff

The reason this is significant is it shows what can be done with today’s Technology.

Obviously this car is just a toy for the rich, but it gets the idea in our heads that maybe an electric car is a viable idea.

They need to make it more efficient and have a better range, and be less exspensive, but its a good start.

This is actually pretty cool stuff. I think people, especially in USA, need to become a bit more responsible and actually care about the environment and stop sponsoring terrorist ridden nations by buying oil from them.

But anyway, what I am really waiting for is Mitsubishi MIEV technology which will appear around 2010. Instant torque response on electric car should be through the roof. Also no need for a transmission nor heavy gas engine will make the cars a bit lighter and more innovative from aesthetic point of view as designers will have no front engine (as each wheel will have it’s own little engine) which means more area to play around with the design.

I love the car, but people need to stop calling electric cars zero emissions. Think of the ways we make electricity (burning coal, nuke power, dams, etc.) Not to mention the production and disposal of those batteries.

Wow i really like the back of this car. the only thing i am going to miss is the look of the muffler, since it doesnt need any.

According to the government, “The thermal efficiency of fossil-fueled steam-electric plants is about 33 to 35 percent…..The number of gas turbines is growing as technological advances in gas turbine design and declining gas prices have made the gas turbine competitive with the large steam-electric plants. However, thermal efficiency is slightly less than that of the large steam-electric plants” Hydro feeds in just 13% of the nation’s energy demands.
See more here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/chg_stru_update/chapter3.html

“The conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy can be accomplished with an efficiency of about 80%. In a hydroelectric plant, the losses occur in the turbines, bearings, penstocks, and generators. The basic limitations of thermodynamics fix the maximum efficiency obtainable in converting heat to electrical energy. The necessity of limiting the temperature to safe levels also helps to keep the efficiency down to about 41% for a fossil-fuel plant. Most nuclear plants use low-pressure, low-temperature steam operation, and have an even lower efficiency of about 30%. Nuclear plants have been able to achieve efficiency up to 40% with liquid-metal cooling. It is thought that by using magnetohydrodynamic “toppingâ€? generators in conjunction with normal steam turbines, the efficiency of conventional plants can be raised to close to 50%. These devices remove the restrictions imposed by the blade structure of turbines by using the steam or gasses produced by combustion as the working fluid.”
And more here: http://www.answers.com/topic/electric-power

Apparently just converting d/c to a/c results in a drop of 4 to 10% with current inverter efficiency. Doesn’t matter if generated by wind, waves, or farts.

The electric motor and power grid may be reasonably efficient, but by converting energy from raw materials, to electricity, then passing that power over lines and thru transformers to individual charging stations, then storing it in a battery (or many in this case), before being called upon to perform, doesn’t it sound like a very efficient machine in the grand scheme.

Thats making a serious statement. Its a great start. Somebody really needs to find out how much electricity bills would skyrocket.

Perfect! Keep up good work.

I’m sure environmentally conscious celebrities are sighing relief by the dozens now that they won’t have to show up at the Academy Awards in a Toyota Prius anymore lol….

If a gasoline generator is towable, then the range becomes infinite for those occasional long trips.

I saw an Audi electric car concept, it had electric motors in each wheel and theoretically blows both the Enzo and Veyron away with huge amounts of torque and hp.

here’s the link
http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-2006-Audi-R-Zero-Concept.htm

Sure your electric bills could sky rocket. But someone who could afford this car could also put solar cells on their mansion roof and a few wind turbines on their ranch to get the electricity they need. Sure the cost of the solar cells, wind turbine and car would be a lot but while your out silently drag racing you could be supplying the power you generate back onto the grid reducing your bill…

And what does the weight of a car have to do with crash worthiness? An F1 car is about a 1000 pounds and it is engineered to allow the driver to walk away from a crash at 200mph. Plus today’s average car is as heavy as cars from the 70’s - something like 4000 lbs - but I would much rather be in an accident in todays cars than a 70’s death-mobile.

Don’t forget electricity is much cheaper than gasoline. It is also much cheaper than a Ferrari F430.

Damn, the back end is a freaking Lotus Elise, no doubt about it. Not a bad car to copy, but I wonder if it’s as small as one inside.
Anyways, this is the place to start… high performance electric cars are what will “fuel” regular electric vehicles. Like it’s been said, toys for the rich will make eventually become standard vehicles for the “common man”.

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its a sad time.
we wont be able to hear the beutiful sound od a car any more.no more aston martin v8 vantage sound or carrera gt or ferrari f430’s. and worst of all. we wont be called petrol heads. well be electric heads. and that makes me sick.

Rush will soon be considered profits…Red Barchetta…maybe in 2112…

I think I remember hearing that this car will cost like $5 to charge based on a price of 10 cents per kw/h.

Whoever said the back (and the front) look like a lotus, they are right in saying so. The lead engineer is ex-louts. Notice the front splitter, rear diffuser and flying buttress. Lots o’ down force.

So I might have gotten the numbers wrong on the production side of electricity. Let’s call it 40% to be on the low side. Transmission I was spot on at 90%. Motor I know is 90%. That works out to 33% efficiency. That is still a whole lot better than gasoline and comparable to the theoretical diesel hybrid.

This IS the way of the future. BTW, who said that light isn’t safe? What a moron. The koenisegg CCX is the safest vehicle on the planet (according to Euro NCAP) and it weighs scant over 2500 lbs.

“Assuming electricity supplied from a combined-cycle natural-gas-fired generator, and accounting for transmissions losses over the grid leads them to calculate the “well-to-wheelâ€? efficiency of the Roadster to be 1.14 km/MJ—double the efficiency of the Toyota Prius.”

TrackBack:
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**250 mile range in a single “tank” or “charge” in this case is not that impressive. A lot of cars get that.
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Yeah, but they are running off gasoline, which costs a lot, is not renewable, creates pollution, and causes wars…

Now we have an electic car that can go just as far as a gasoline car, and just as fast…

Electric cars are also going to make cars possibly easier to work on… There will be a lot less parts. No real “engine”, so no cylinders, cams, or valves… No injectors, no carburators, no intake or exhaust, no manifolds, no gas tank, no need for turbos and intercoolers, and possibly no transmission. cars should theoretically become a lot cheaper and easier to maintain. Anyone that’s ever raced electric RC cars and Nitro RC cars, know that the electric ones are much easier to deal with…

It will be a great day when the average joe can do a motor swap in half an hour…

A couple things:

1. When you compare cars that can go from 0 to 60 in around 4 seconds, this car is moderately priced at around $100,000. That said, I can’t afford it. But if I could afford it I would buy it.

2. With only 2 moving parts in the drivetrain, there is not much that can go wrong mechanically.

3. The company estimates the batteries are good for 100,000 miles. With the money you save from gasoline and frequent tune-ups that we pay for, I bet it’s cheaper to replace the batteries. And who knows, after 100,000 miles (about 5 years) the next set of batteries will most likely have a larger capacity and longer range.

To say nice car is an understatement. I just have a few ideas:

1) Gas probably won’t go away for a while, so all of you petrol heads, please stop the hissy fits.

2) Electric cars are not conspiring against you, in fact, it just means cheaper gas prices- demand takes a dive!!! I think this is what we need to create competition for the big oil companies.

3) This means better things are in the horizons as I still consider electric car building in its infancy.

4) IMHO- there are no safe energy choices, yet. I think the problem is the lack of balance. Hopefully, this will help bring in some balance and stabilize things.

-JB

Build me one that does everything my 1996 Jaguar Vanden Plas does and we’ll talk. I know you all are thinking that isn’t much, but show me a somewhat luxuriously appointed electric car that comfortably seats 5.

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God bless Tesla! It’s been 150 years since he was born. He probably could make a car like this (speaking about mlg range, not design) 100 years ago if he wasn’t stopped while working to provide free energy for everybody on this planet… And yes, this by the way looks like a real, on daily basis usable car, unlike the EV1.

the ccx safest car on planet my ass. whover watched top gear when clarkson was driving the ccx will know wat im talkin about. he said on the cool wall that the ccx was cool becuase you will be able to die in a massive fireball going backwards in a swedish supercar. lol

by the way when top gear took it on the track it was the only supercar to CRASH.

My first thought is Arnold and his electric Hummer.
My second thought is Bush and his buddies will try to outlaw it (but then we should outlaw them first).

It should be the wave of the future!

For those dissing this car, you should realize this isn’t about the looks or even performance… it’s an engineering feat to bring somehting like this to market. It does so much more than any electric car ever has, and will do well. When it does you will even more advances in hybrid and electric technology.

FYI the batteries are recycleable.

all very nice but they are playing it really safe with the styling which is a bit sad. if a sedan or wagon is to be next, i can’t imagine how there will be any sort of familial resemblance.

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