MarkB

Sod the 0-60 (relatively easy with an electric motor or 4), how much does it weigh.

If it's full of batteries with a motor at each wheel, it's not going to handle too cleverly is it?

Fletch

Mid Engine (battery pack)
Rear wheel drive (With one motor sat around the diff area by the looks of it)

Funny thing is there is NO mention of weight anywhere on their site.
It's also the number one question on their blog.

juansolo

Given the fairly obvious Lotus origins of the chassis, knowing what a Elise weighs all up and that the battery pack is 1000lbs, I'd guestimate 1200-1300kgs.

Richy123

I think if everyone drove these the goverment would just tax electric to compensate for the loss of revenue from petrol.

What about this guy's car, runs on water-

http://70.87.202.210/videos/060515-alterna...s-h2o-video.wmv

Dembo

It *IS* an Elise, for those that don't know. The pictures make it look like a bigger car.

If it got me to work and back every day, I'd be happy. Then it can spend the night being charged back up. Bit of a problem if you do run out of charge though - I guess the only option is a tow.

It still needs electricity of course, so still global warming/carbon emission etc. etc., and you can bet that if these things become popular the government would slap a whopping tax on electricity used for charging cars.

trinis2001

Maby if they made the battery packs easily exchangeable (heavy though no doubt) - you could go to a "gas" station and just exchange packs and pay for the electricity that was used to charge up the exchange. That would leave room for good competition in pack exchanges based on price and source of power for charges, like "we use wind energy to charge..." to answer the global warmning geeks.

It looks better than the Elise though IMO.

Nick Graves

Best form of wind energy is to get the bleeding hearts to talk into a wind turbine!

If we had enough turbines to cope, we'd all die of smog & drought!

AusS2000

Uh uh. It runs on HHO or whatever. Any process that starts with water and ends with water requires more energy than it produces. So you're back to the old problem of how do you produce the electricity without fossil fuels. Who can spell 'Chernobyl'?

Dembo

A nuclear car would be great. You'd never need to refuel.

A bit of a problem disposing of old cars though.

I think we should all enjoy the internal combustion engine whilst we can. Safety, and hype about global warming will probably take all the fun out of driving before very long.

AusS2000

You realise I was referring to producing electricity to turn water into a fuel we can use in cars.

Ironically most hydrogen produced today and used in fuel cells is cracked from hydrocarbons. IE, fossil fuels.