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Race between
the X1 and Ferrari 360 Spyder and a Porsche Carrera GT at Infineon
Raceway
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resolution for Windows Media Player (11MB)
Video - Kron News
Wrightspeed
Electric Supercar Ride (0-60 in 3 seconds)
Video - Revver Inc.
Wrightspeed
Electric Supercar
Photos and more - Flickr
The marketing people have it all wrong. Electric is about the future.
It's about SPEED and PERFORMANCE -- unheard of zip and stopping
power. Why not use your know how to build a stealthy electric super-car.
The physics say you can do it now...with batteries (not PEM's) bike
frame technology, carbon fiber body panels, and variable reluctance
electric motors -- safer, faster (accelerating and stopping), quieter.
Put a really nice interior in it. Achieve 0-60 in 3 seconds...
January 6, 2006
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New Electric Supercar: The Wrightspeed EV
Jalopnik
If you still thought electric cars were only good for carrying pissed-drunk
men wielding metal clubs, the Wrightspeed EV — shown in a
video sent by one Jalopnik reader — will likely change your
outlook in a hurry. Using an already quick-and-ready (and street
legal) Ariel Atom open-wheel roadster as a donor car, creator Ian
Wright stuffed in a high-tech electric motor from AC Propulsion
(tZero, Tango), wired it up, and devised a faster-than-hell EV that
can do zero-to-60 in a neckbone-threatening three seconds. Check
out this video of a test drive — if you can get past the cyclonic
wind noise. Insane.
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