Today - using a car called 'Nemesis,' (good name for a roller coaster - shit name for a car!) a group in Elvington near York (apparently one of the only places not under water!) set a new record in an electric car.
They took a Lotus Exige took all of the petrol guzzling gubbins out - and replaced it with electromobobic stuff and got it to an impressive 151.6mph - which is almost as fast as a high specced normal Exige without all the gubbins removed and replacing with electrimibobs!
I like that people are having a go at this kind of thing. This joins the Tesla brand of motors in trying to put together an electric car that doesn't look try and either reinvent the who look of cars - such as the Gee Whiz (for which ownership should be punishable by having to watch an Anne Widecombe & Gordon Brown sex tape until your eyes fall out.) - which is just about one of the worst looking things I have ever seen - ever.
Like really - what the fuck were they thinking of. My car (a VW lupo which is small and blue) is not exactly one of the most attractive cars ever made. None the less - it doesn't make me want to pour scalding bleach into my eye sockets.
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| I have had more attractive bowel movements than this monstrosity of a car design |
There there are the electric cars that kind of look right - but like there is something wrong with them because they have 'saved the space where the engine should be'
The thing is - cars have looked beautiful with engines for years. If you want me to look at one of these cars and think - that looks nice; try starting with tried and testing - don't start making it look like the 70s idea of futuristic.
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| Still ugly - but not bleach drinkingly so. |
The problem I have with electric cars though - is the power plant problem. My currently car can hold enough petrol in it to do 250 miles (bearing in mind it has a tiny tank and many cars can do much more!) and I can fill a tank in about 2-3minutes at a petrol pump.
The average electric car can do about 50-70 miles on a full charge - and that charge will take about 12 fucking hours. For me, that just doesn't really make it a viable option at all - unless you can afford to have several batteries and keep them constantly on charge.
Don't get me wrong - I want the electric car (like the top one - not the fucking Gee Wiz (if you own one, I would like to say that you have no taste and I hope you are very fucking ashamed of yourself)) to triumph - but I want the effort to be made to make it a practical world item that is fast - efficient and fun.
I don't want it to make me want to wear a burka so that no-one knows its me.
And don't get me started on hybrids - which are actually really uneconomical and only own by pricks who think they will save the world by using recycled toilet roll. Prius owners- I'm talking to you.
In fact, between the Prius and the Gee wiz - it's kind of hard to pick which is worse!
Rant over.
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