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The way I see it, if you're gonna build an electric car, why not do it with some style?
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The world's coolest car is going electric.
The guy who bought the DeLorean brand and basically the entire existing stock of DeLorean parts a few years back so he could start building new ones from scratch is now making a fully-electric version.
The current prototype can get about 70-100 miles on a charge. They're working to improve that and are targeting bringing them to market in 2013 for a price of about $90,000
Time to start saving up.
The guy who bought the DeLorean brand and basically the entire existing stock of DeLorean parts a few years back so he could start building new ones from scratch is now making a fully-electric version.
The current prototype can get about 70-100 miles on a charge. They're working to improve that and are targeting bringing them to market in 2013 for a price of about $90,000
Time to start saving up.
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Like, have people forgotten that that was the joke of having that car be the Back to the Future car? What's going on?
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kinda like how this looks
Can it go 88?
car's nice too
got a nice rear end
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
They're working on lightening up the frame with better materials and such, but the body is gonna look the same.
the entire business plan is based on Kanye West buying the entire production run for vanity's sake
That might actually work.
If it can go highway speeds, who cares?
People who like to exceed highway speeds? People who like to take their car to the track? People who care about performance?
they are the 1%
Ok, fair enough. But for an average person who just wants a car they think looks neat, why should there be any concern about whether or not it can go 130?
So you'd pay $90k for a cool looking car built around the suspension and engine of a Dodge Dart, just because it looks cool?
The electric motor in this car is going to pump out the equivelant of 260 bhp. Compared to the 140bhp of the original DeLorean (well, American, the European version has 160bhp). That's a lot more get up and go.
And, while the stainless steel body remains, as does the extra weight of the battery based engine, the frame of the cars will be made of a newer, lighter material that will actually make the car weigh less than the original DeLorean.
So, all in all, it's a better car than the original.
It just has a shitty range.
Edit: The Jalopnik article does a lot better job explaining this car than either of the ones in the OP.
http://jalopnik.com/5850448/electric-delorean-first-drive
Porsche 918 Spyder
The flux capacitor where the passenger seat should be is actually an electric flywheel accumulator that acts as a turbo boost for the car.
The kind of a car a concrete executive would drive.
You're thinking of BMW.
Ok, I'll concede "average person" was a bad idea to add into the discussion of a 90k car.
But if I had the money, it would indeed be a car I would consider purchasing. I would do research about maintenance costs and safety and reliability and such, and I would take it for a test drive to make sure I liked driving it. But I do not place value on having super awesome top speed or acceleration or handling. I wouldn't be the type to "take it to the track" or whatever.
To some extent, yes, acceleration and handling are important. But for for my personal choices, the bar for those aren't set very high. I don't care about super sportscar level performance. I place value on different aspects, and yes, looking cool is one of them.
Using the same suspension and bodies/interiors means they will be just as bad as a car that was a piece of shit in the 80s, 30 years later...
Utter stupidity. If you really want a Delorean, get a second-hand one.
I keep getting job postings from the company that did the powertrain for those