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The first all-electric American supercar

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6 pointsstevewilhelm9 comments

As a huge car enthusiast, I'll chime in here and say that I really like the idea of this and the direction you're taking it in.

A couple things that concern me:

What was the reasoning behind the Daytona coupe over the Cobra roadster body?

Why use a real CSX chassis when you could drive costs down with a high-quality reproduction chassis such as a Superformance?

Additional thoughts:

I image a "drop-in" electric solution that fits a standard 289 mounts/bay would be very popular among the kit guys, and would open you up to the millions of cars fitted with these engines(all mustangs until 1995, mercuries, thunderbirds, alpines, etc)

I live in silicon valley, where can I see/drive one?

I know a little bit about this project so I can do my best to answer. I think they prefer the Coupe style aesthetically but there's also more room to stash batteries.

It is actually a chassis custom built to their specs by Superformance.

The car is a real product but it's also platform for technology development, I think you'll be hearing a lot more from these guys in the future.

Well, they're showing the car in Pebble Beach today :) But if you drop me an email (in profile) I can get you in touch with their marketing guy. Now that they're out of stealth mode they will be doing more events.

It doesn't include this stat on the website, but it's on the official Twitter feed: range is 100 miles.

THANK YOU!

I couldn't figure out what it was on the main page. Seems very silly to omit it.

Nice looking car, although I'm not sure I would consider it a 'supercar' like the Bugatti Veyron, Lamborhini Aventador, etc. This looks like a nice electrified Shelby coupe kit car.

Supercar is often used to describe the technological advances in the car but it does have various different definitions depending on who you ask.

In this case, it's a super car in the sense of the fast and all electric dual-engine pushing the car from 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds.

3.4 sec is quite respectable, but nothing boasting about a top speed of "over 120mph" can possibly qualify as a supercar.

I'd consider that number a vague handwavy number because they haven't had time to do thorough high speed performance testing yet. I know those guys, and they are very thorough and professional...

By the way, if there are any software developers around the south bay who are interested in working on this project, get in touch with me (email in profile).

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