Posted by: jbauer
Very cool car. - 27/04/2006 21:53
Met Ian Wright this afternoon. See lame Treo 650 pic. (attachment)
Couldn't touch him on the twisties on my 05 zx6r heading north on 35, and I don't feel that I'm a slow poke.
Watch the video here (click on the picture on the front page):
http://www.wrightspeed.com/
- Jon
Posted by: hybrid8
Re: Very cool car. - 28/04/2006 00:47
That's the electric Ariel Atom chasis-based car featured in this month's Business 2.0. Neat. Not as practical as AC Propulsion's test car, but cool nonetheless.
Now if only the US didn't burn coal for the majority of its electricity...
Bruno
Posted by: Anonymous
Re: Very cool car. - 28/04/2006 10:22
Well they can't have a hoodscoop and superchager on it like most dragcars. I say they should put a windmill on top and let it harness the power of the wind as it speeds along.
Posted by: Anonymous
Re: Very cool car. - 28/04/2006 12:03
That's a damn good idea. Building a perpetual motion machine is actually one of my goals in life, as well as finding a perfect winning strategy for chess and creating an algorithm that is capable of encoding any file as a single key that's 1 kb or less in length.
Posted by: SuperQ
Re: Very cool car. - 29/04/2006 04:01
yea, the guy brougt the car over to where I work and was giving rides to people.. the thing is awesome. the AC propultion motor/controller is a very well designed setup. couldn't get the guy to talk about where he got the LiIon battery pack tho.
Posted by: FireFox31
Re: Very cool car. - 30/04/2006 13:27
AH! Ariel Atom. Must... have!
Posted by: andy
Re: Very cool car. - 07/05/2006 13:26
There is some very crappy reporting on that car. The articles all seem to say "second only to the Veyron's 0-60" time, whereas in fact there are quite a few cars out there that can beat its 3.5 second time.
Most of the articles seem to imply that he designed the car and that it is a "production" model as well.
Still, I am all for fast, exciting electric cars. If we end up with lots electric cars on the roads in the coming years then they are going to end up having to fit loadspeakers to them (that go "vroom, vrooom"). Otherwise the number of pedestrians stepping out in front on the otherwise quiet cars is going to sky-rocket.
