Comments on: The Car of the Future Is Announced (Again) http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/2009/01/23/the-car-of-the-future-is-announced-again/ Where Yesterday's Tomorrow Is Still the Future. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul Havemann http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/2009/01/23/the-car-of-the-future-is-announced-again/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Paul Havemann Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:02:03 +0000 http://www.retrofuture.com/?p=130#comment-12 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... 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…

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