Is Ferrari Finally Succumbing To The Electric Envy?
This is the story of Ferrari, FIAT, Chrysler, and Tesla. And this is also the story of how engineers working on a project not ready for primetime can come back 10 years later.
This is the story of Ferrari, FIAT, Chrysler, and Tesla. And this is also the story of how engineers working on a project not ready for primetime can come back 10 years later.
No doubt about it, proof-of-concept cars are cool, but rarely practical. Despite their unobtainium status, they are nonetheless very much needed. Here’s why.
A while back, we wrote about a Taiwanese company called XING Mobility working on two prototypes. Today, the testing of the electric supercar XING Mobility is about to redefine raw power and thumb its nose at laggards.
Dubuc Motors will begin production of its long awaited electric supercar, the Tomahawk, next year, according to recent reports. Perhaps more notably, the company is saying that the production offering will do 0 to 60 miles per hour in just 2 seconds.
Electric supercars seem to be coming into fashion, going by the auto industry news cycle as of late. The newest bit of information supporting that assertion is the news that an all-electric supercar named the “Elextra” is being developed that will possess a combined (both electric motors) output of 670 horsepower.
From sister site Gas2: Right now the Rimac Concept_One electric supercar is on a tour of the Middle East, and to prove its worth, Rimac set up an impromptu drag race. With a Ferrari. Bet you know where this is going. With four electric motors producing a combined 1,073 horsepower and 1,180 … [continued]
Well, “just” might only apply to a few of our readers (if that). $585,000 (or €388,000) is, believe it or not, a little outside the budget of this cleantech blogger… and about 99.9% of the people on earth. But the good news is that we get to read and write … [continued]
Daimler (the parent company of Mercedes-Benz) has revealed more specifications of the electric version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
Silex Power has said that it has designed an electric vehicle — the Chreos — that achieves outstanding range, performance, and charge time. Instead of simply listing these claims, let us spend more time exploring the possibility of them, and which technologies on the market can achieve them, or at … [continued]