SSC to Produce World’s Fastest Electric Car - Could Run ‘Several Years Between Charging’
SSC, the producers of the world’s fastest production car, the Ultimate Aero, has announced plans for an all-electric version of the record breaking model. The Ultimate Aero EV (Electric Vehicle) is currently in development, with a 500 bhp version slated for release as early as late 2009 and a 1000 bhp 4WD EV also under consideration.
Sounds impressive huh? However, that’s not all… the press release also states “the drive train under development will feature a revolutionary power source allowing for extended time between charging intervals with the possibility of several years between charging.”
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If you think this sounds perhaps a little over-ambitious, it might be worth suspending your disbelief at least for a short while. Remember, this is the same company that is capable of producing a car with a top speed of 256 mph and a track record of living up to past claims. According to SSC founder Jerod Shelby, “I think we can do it faster, leaner and cleaner than any other manufacturer.”
SSC hasn’t yet released any more details, other than that it expects to roll out a prototype in February 2009. Prepare for something pretty awesome, maybe there’ll be a mini nuclear power plant or some weird alien technology in there…
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Image Credit: SSC
Source: Business Week
Since no imaginable storage device, even EESTOR’s, could last that long, it is producing power for itself by some means. Anyway, besides just having a generator on board al la Volt, there are lots of cool techs out there like the Lutec device http://www.lutec.com.au, or some tech that chemically self distructs over the period of a year and then costs a fortune to replace. Alternately, it may require a nonexistant electric infrastructure as natyori suggested. Somebody please go break into the Groom Lake facility (area 51)and steal whatever they are using to power UFO’s.
Dilithium crystals are obviously involved. Or an advanced polywell IEC device.
If we’re not growing technologically, then we’re stuck. And quoting, Richard Bach in his book Illusions, “Argue for your limitations and they’re yours”.
My concern is, remember “Who Killed the Electric Car”? Will this manufacturer or any other even be allowed to actually get their cars to market?
And we have plenty of oil…the prices are being manipulated by those who see their end coming… We should have been off oil at least fifty five years ago.
Fortunately for all of us, the tipping point is passed. The odds are on our side from here on out. We won’t let them pull the wool over again… even if gas does go back to twenty four cents a gallon.
None of these cars will reduce gridlock or parking problems, which combine to make our commutes a nghtmare. Only one EV does: “The Tango”: http://www.commutercars.com
Well electricity is produced by turning a dynamo - potentially 4 dynamos known as wheels?
Go easy on me I’m not educated in the field of engineering