The World's Fastest Electric Car Beats A Ferrari
from the not-bad... dept
Remember when electric cars were laughed at for being slow and underpowered. Not any more... Roland Piquepaille writes "Forbes.com looks at the fastest electric vehicle in the world, the tzero roadster built by AC Propulsion Inc. "The tzero does 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds, according to the company, and it does it on only 200 horsepower." The company says it starts faster than a Ferrari F355. It also has a limited range of 280 to 300 miles at 60 mph on a single charge. The company expects a price somewhere between a Porsche and a Ferrari, but Forbes says it carries a $220,000 sticker price. This overview on my blog contains more details and links. It also includes a rendering of the Tzero."
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It's a kid killer
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Fastest? Not.
Mike
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Fastest? Not.
Mike
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your talking just a v8 engine in most. maybe v10. not sure there.
ferraris are all about name recognition,style, handling.
a bit overrated.
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charge time, not top speed
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that said, i believe the public has been conditioned to the point were the facts can't change the opinion. too bad.
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I have to commute a round-trip of about sixty miles every day and that doesn't include running errands/picking up the kids/going to off-site meetings etc... I don't need a car that will crap out in the middle of the day when I can just pull into Conoco and pump in ten gallons of unleaded and be on my way in two minutes. And never mind the impracticality of a business trip.
Think it's a red herring? You must not drive much.
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no A/C
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most people dont do 300 miles in one go and most electrics can plug straight in to a power point so if you go to work you can charge it there and also the new electrics can half charge in just three minutes and thats around the same time you spend pumpin fuel into your car.. I think people have got to broaden there minds to new things and not just try and figure out whats wrong with it, to justify not changing..
when you see a new Ferrari or Porsche most people say wow thats cool etc they dont say oh thats a kid killer or it uses an enormous amount of petrol and your gonna spend most your day and the petrol pump..
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F355 IS OLD
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