Looks like SSC is out to reinvent the electric wheel. And then some. Look, if you wanted to, you could slap a bigger motor into a Tesla, haul around 6,800 more laptop batteries and go really, really fast. Still going to take you 7 or 8 hours to charge the thing. We’ve heard about the [...]
Dodge brought its fleet of electrics to the snowy death trap wonderland that is Detroit. While there was an all new EV sedan concept (the 200C) and a two-wheel drive EV Jeep Patriot on hand, the most Fiendish ride under the Penstar was still the the Lotus Europa-based Circuit. The company has worked up yet [...]
Man, shoulda called it “Jezza vs. Tesla.” Anyhow — Jezza — the man that says things like, “[T]he whole global warming theory is bonkers. A complete fairy story” goes one on one with the (current) poster child for sustainable driving, the all-electric Tesla Roadster. Er, more like goes one on two, as the first Roadster [...]
Northern California loves it some electric cars. First you got Neil Young claiming that bio-diesel charged electric Caddies are the way forward (he lives in La Honda). Now you got San Francisco and the surrounding communities rolling out plans to become the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the U.S.” And that’s totally cool, even though I think [...]
Especially big ones. According to Mr. Young, the bigger the electric car, the better. Why is that? Well, what’s the big problem with electric cars? If you don’t have a garage, where do you plug your car in at night? Er, no — the other big problem. Ah, right — in real, actual driving with hills [...]
There’s a guy named Jason Calacanis and he founded Weblogs, Inc. AOL then bought his company and now he’s richer than the Kaiser. As such, he bought himself an orange Tesla Roadster! As with all Tesla owners, Mr. Calacanis is going to fall into one of two groups: planet saving greenies or hoons who crave supercar acceleration and Lotus-like [...]
Infamous tuner Brabus has turned their eye towards the all-electric Tesla Roadster, tweaking the car’s exterior for a more sinister appeal. Aside from the matte-white paint scheme, the company installed a custom carbon fiber front lip and rear diffuser and swapped the stock wheels and tires for more aggressive bits. Here’s the really nifty bit. [...]
Looks that way. In a segment on CNBC, Phil LeBeau evidently got a good look at a handful of the company’s special projects, including a very Tesla-esque EV. How similar is the car to the Southern California plug-in? We don’t know what kind of electric motors this thing is running, but it’s body is sourced [...]
Did you happen to catch the Bob Lutz interview on the Colbert Report recently? The GM Vice President of Global Product Development (how do they fit that on a business card?) stopped by to tout the company’s new wonder child, the Chevrolet Volt. We like to think of ourselves as a bunch of open-minded guys [...]
Well OK — here’s your Chevy Volt with a bunch of dudes standing in front of it. And by “dudes” we mean Bob Lutz and friends. According to our very in the know source (wink wink), these pics went live on the GM Media site by accident and The Car Connection went ahead and ran [...]
