Nice! Very fast for an electric car. https://www.yahoo.com/news/elextra-supercar-promises-0-62-mph-time-under-090000181.html
That would beat even the Tesla Model S in Ludicrous + Mode, which has a 0-60 of 2.389 seconds. On the other hand, the Tesla actually currently exists. :wink:
I really like that Elon Musk fella from Tesla. He provides his workers with good living wages, benefits, etc. And yet, Tesla thrives. Good Christian that Elon.
Well, except for the part about being decidedly non-religious. https://www.quora.com/What-is-Elon-Musks-religion
ah! I thought I read somewhere that he was a Christian. Thanks for the link. He does treat his workers in a Christian like manner anyway and doesn't screw them out of their hard earned money like a certain high profile person does.
With the price of gas, I don't blame you. I do like fast cars though. I really enjoy driving my wife's 350Z! Fast.
The most powerful and best car I ever had was the General Motors EV-1. 0 to 60 in under 5 seconds. Four years of sheer driving joy (mid 1990s) until GM forcibly took it away, flattened it, and dumped it in an Arizona desert.
I once had a British sports car. Never again! I used to PRAY something like that would happen to it! If they'd come for it, I'd have let British Leyland have it!! I eventually traded it and a few hundred dollars for a 1962 Chevy II convertible, which was one of the most pleasurable cars I ever had. J.
For those who don't get it, in accounting parentheses indicate a negative number. And that's a fair point. I'll keep my '96 Miata, the most fun car I've ever had.
Engine technology has come so far in my lifetime; my first "nice" car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon that had the 6.6L (403cid) V-8 engine with a 4-barrel carburetor that made, maybe, 190 horsepower. The latest Ford police vehicles have a 3.7L V-6 that makes over 300 horsepower, and that's the base engine, there's another one even more powerful.
So do I, but not if they're chasing me! The current Cadillac CTS-V Sedan engine produces 640 H.P. Talk about overkill! That's equivalent to three V8 El Dorados, back in '53, when Cadillac led the horsepower race with a mighty 210! J.
But would I want the '53 El Dorado today? Oh, yeah! Especially the convertible! Do I want the new 640 h.p. CTS-V sedan? No. Leaves me cold. But give it 60 years... J.
Abner: "Why did they do that? It kind of sounds like that movie "Who killed the Electric Car"." John: That is exactly what that movie was about. GM wanted to "prove" to California (and some other states) that emissions standards were too strict -- that no one would buy such cars -- so they made a very good one, did nearly zero marketing, and then claimed they couldn't sell them. I could have taken 3 to 5 orders a day, just from driving mine around in various cities. In a final scene in the movie, they show an aerial view of the "secret" dumping ground in the desert where the EV-1s are flattened and stacked 8 or 10 high. There's a bright red one visible in one stack that I am confident is mine. There are rumors that a moderate number of people still have their EV-1s in secret garages, having claimed they were stolen. (Not me.)
