Sweet and Sexy

[octothorpe]

A *really* hot, fully electric *production* car coming out of England:

http://wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71414-0.html?tw=wn_index_2

Comments

[jeffla.livejournal.com]

ME WANT! ME WANT! And they're going to start selling in So. Cal soon!

http://www.teslamotors.com/

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I want an electric car powered by aluminum/air fuel cells. ;)

[sinnabor.livejournal.com]

I was about to comment that it looked like an adapted Lotus Elise... and the story mentions that it was designed by someone from Lotus, and is being built by Lotus, after they poached a bunch of engineers from Lotus. Hmmm.

The Elise also gets strangely good mileage for a sportscar (24/29 -- well, the UK version is a lot better at 34/43), and goes silly fast on a Toyota inline four.

Of course, when I was fantasizing about the Elise, I kept choking on the roughly $40k price tag, so the Tesla is also unlikely to tempt me. It's a low-production-volume handbuilt toy, not a mass-market car, so not exactly world changing.

But I wouldn't say no to a test drive. :-)

[turbillion.livejournal.com]

this sounds so amazing. do you think it is really true? do you remember the dale? i'm always wary of these 'wonder' cars...

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Wow, who saw that coming? Not I, and while I'm certainly no EV groupie, I spent a couple years on the UM Solar Car engineering and race team. Amazing. (Also amazing, but in a different way: The dumbcluck comments being posted here.)

You made a good choice getting the TSX instead of an Elise, BTW.

i saw the schematics

[laitechs.livejournal.com]

when it was considered to be just a concept car.
i really would like to get one when they come out, though i be they're going to be overpriced for a while, as everywhere else in the world seems to be greener then the US. However, look what runs our country. corporate greed, and oil tycoons, who'll do anything to keep this country in their pockets. even say...lead us into an un-winnable war, as so they can control the oil market, in the guise of good intent. every day a terrorist is born. though i am thankful that in this country we don't have that dreaded counsil tax. which seems to be way too high.