Wow, a three-wheel all-electric car that gets 200 miles per gallon. Very Retrofuture-esque looking. According to Wired it has the inside track on winning the $10 million dollar Automotive X Prize.
I have uploaded my old Firebird III dream car piece from 1999 which features the work of the great designer Harley Earl. The so-called “Dream Car” has a long and hallowed place in our collective imagination. It looks like we’re getting closer to an environmental “Dream Car.” If the 2e (pictured above) is any indication it will look less like a flying Batmobile and more like the Ansari X Prize winner SpaceShipOne.
Not to be too nitpicky, but an “all-electric car that gets 200 miles per gallon” is something of a non sequitur. (The article notes that it gets “the equivalent of 200 mpg and goes 100 miles on a charge.”
Speaking of cool electric cars, check out the Wired blog’s companion post — the Shelby Ultimate Aero EV:
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/worlds-fastest.html
The boutique automaker caught our attention when it first mentioned the Ultimate Aero EV last summer, and now it’s come through with some specs. They’re pretty outlandish — zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds? 10-minute recharge time? — but we’ll suspend our skepticism long enough to clear some space in the Autopia Fantasy Garage.
For the uninitiated, Shelby SuperCars builds insanely overpowered and absurdly fast cars…