Electric car of your wildest wet dreams - uh huh let me see you salivate!
- added December 20, 2007
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- jubal
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All Electric Crossover SUV
Check out this amazing car they are going to be selling in California, its called the Zap-X and it rocks. $25,000
It has 644 Horsepower, it can go from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 4.8 seconds, and it can go up to 155 miles per hour.
I can go a distance of 350 miles and it can be recharged in 10 minutes.
Just read it I can't believe that something like this has got me so excited.
They are taking reservations now.
I want one....OOOOHHHH Santa?
Check out this amazing car they are going to be selling in California, its called the Zap-X and it rocks. $25,000
It has 644 Horsepower, it can go from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 4.8 seconds, and it can go up to 155 miles per hour.
I can go a distance of 350 miles and it can be recharged in 10 minutes.
Just read it I can't believe that something like this has got me so excited.
They are taking reservations now.
I want one....OOOOHHHH Santa?
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Oh and it costs a penny a mile for electricity on this thing.
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Here is the brochure for the car. It has the most amazing Carputer that runs Windows XP, and has every kind of connection you can imagine for your techy devices. Too Cool!
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This is way better than the Tesla Roadster.
It's biometric and thermoelectric. -
How real is it? Is it street legal? How many prototypes have been produced and tested to exhaustion? How soon will it be in regular production? How long do the batteries last? What will it cost to replace the batteries? Can they be disposed of cleanly and in an environmently friendly manner?
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- razzamataz
- 9 months ago
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there are many more electric cars an car companies in the works. This will soon be one of loads of choices. ZAP is a great company! This car looks good.
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Great find! I want one!
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I agree 'twodee' that the Zap looks good. And I admire your optimism, so please forgive what I call my 'healthy skepticism'. It's just that the Zap looks almost too good.
As a student in the 1950s I drew up plans for an electric car driven by individual motors on each wheel. The technology - or resources - didn't exist then to create a practical version, but we seem to be getting back to a similar approach now.
Ten years ago I was closely involved in the development of an electrically powered sports water-craft that would travel under water for short distances. A little different, I agree, but as a result I don't underestimate the many problems, technological, social, cultural and political, involved in bringing an attractive efficient electric car to the market.
My experience is that when things look too good to be true, they usually are.
But the best of luck to Zap and to Lotus who have an excellent record of achievement in automotive and related fields.
Electric cars have been around a long time, too. Didn't the world land speed record belong to an electric car around the start of the 20th Century?
And why were GM's fleet of 300 experimental electric cars scrapped a few years ago after what seemed like highly successful trials?
There are very powerful vested interests out there who aren't going to make it easy for advanced electric powered cars to take over from traditional gas (petrol) burning internal combustion driven vehicles. But maybe we'll have some fun along the way-
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- razzamataz
- 9 months ago
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Nothing left but optimism. I have one of the Ford Ranger all electric pickup trucks that did not get crushed. It gets charged by the solar panels on my roof. You are right......to be skeptical of the technological, social, cultural and political twists and turns to get it right. I have decided to say......F*&k -em ! I am not waiting for them to catch up. Rassamataz my friend, let's go build your electric car! REVOLUTION!
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Thank you, twodee. That's brought a real smile to my late Friday. You're right. Without optimism we have nothing. Thanks for the reminder.
I wish you every success with your Ford Ranger. Long may it run.-
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- razzamataz
- 9 months ago
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Wow, I like this. I like looking at the future. Is this only available in California?
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- JanforGore
- 9 months ago
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Looks awesome. But personally I'm waiting for the cool "air-powered" cars. If you Google "air powered car" it show you this neat company that has created an engine that works on compressed air. No quite as cool as this electric car, but I just love the idea of a car running on compressed air. Yet another design breakthrough that almost no one in the US has heard of (I know I didn't). Whoever coined the term 'Planet America" got it right. Since our news media refuses to cover anything outside the US it's hard to get a handle on where the rest of the planet is socially and in terms of technological innovation.
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Here's a link to Popular mechanics which talks about how India's largest automaker is going to be producing these things. How awesome. The article says it can go just over 125 miles per "air charge" and takes only 10mins to refill. And the cost of adding air to power your car? Only 2 bucks! It only costs 2 bucks to drive 125 miles? With zero emissions? Oh! And it only costs 12k brand new. True, it may not be practical for American use but why did WE invent this design and sell it to India employing American workers? Once again the green economy is roaring ahead and we're stuck back in the dark ages (losing money) while Beavis and Butthead, er, Bush and Cheney keep talking about drilling for oil. http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/421...
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It won't be long before the number of vehicles that are making it to the streets that offer an alternative to fossil fuels is inevitable.
We are going to see an explosion of new automobile technology that will become the next big stock market bonanza. Did any of you see that Zap's Stock on the NYSE is under a dollar a share?
Once this thing goes into mass production the stock is going to climb in value. This could be a good investment if you do the stock investment thing.
The Tesla Roadster is going to be selling for $100,000 each. Compare to the Zap-X at $25,000, it would be very difficult for the average person to afford a Tesla. These Zap's are going to be selling like hotcakes - mark my words. This is real big from a design and marketing standpoint.
Not to mention that a Dubai firm just recently purchased $500Million in stock in this company. -
Crob, that is too cool too. I have heard about the air powered cars with zero emissions.
By the way ZAP is an acronym for Zero Air Pollution.
Don't you just love alternative technology to fossil fuel vehicles? I am high on this stuff just dreaming about the day they outnumber the old dinosaur powered machines. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_car
While it is highly unlikely that a pure solar car will ever be commercially available, I am still holding out hope for that.-
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- JanforGore
- 9 months ago
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I could totally see a solar powered car in the dessert.
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I wish we could get a law passed saying all public buses and especially SCHOOL buses had to by alt-fuel powered. We've all sat behind an idling school bus and chocked on the exhaust coming out. Can't be good for developing lungs to breathe that stuff in. Since the school buses are all diesel anyway it would be really simply to just convert them to bio-disel or have them run on vegetable oil. I think that's the best way to phase all this stuff in. Force the school buses to convert, than public buses, than taxis and airport shuttle, than all government fleet vehicles.
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Hopefully, it doesn't work too well, as it may get crushed like some of it's predecessors.-
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- covelogibbs
- 9 months ago
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jubal. funny you mention the stock price of ZAP. I just bought them yesterday again. Been in and out of them for about a year. THey are at about 13% above their low (.68). their highest this year was $1.47. Not that this is,at all,a good time to be in stocks but I could not resist a little purchase.
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$25,000 for a RESERVATION. Hmmm...
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- Justin_Gunn
- 9 months ago
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Exactly. $25,000 just reserves you one of these. I'm guessing at least $50-$90k to buy it, but that's still less than a BMW SUV in Canada....
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- kashifpasta
- 9 months ago
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for those of you interested in this thread I wanted to point out the pod my wife and I made on the ZENN ( zero emission no noise) vehicle. you can see our viersion here: http://current.com/items/76788052_245_mpg ///////////////////////////////////////////and you can see the CURRENTTV REMIX here: http://current.com/items/77329021_little_charged_cars
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...and while I am at my shameless self promotion (how else do we get people to see our work?) please take a few minute to see our latest pod on EARTHSHIPS. cheers.
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I wish they had a version in Mac.
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http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/
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- ssppeencceerr
- 9 months ago
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I guess I misunderstood their website when I saw the price. Justin you are probably right, I knew it was too good to be true. Hmmm is right.
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