All-electric Mustang & Shelby Cobra

[Moses7]

The idea of an electric Pony car or Shelby Cobra may not sit well with some but California-based HST International and design firm Tjaarda have developed a pair of electric vehicles ready for sale based on the aforementioned muscle cars.
Dubbed the Tjaarda EVX Mustang and HST Shelby Cobra EVX, the two new cars will be on show this weekend at the 34th Annual Toyota GP in Long Beach, California.


Click here to see how fast the cars are and how much will they cost

[Herbstang]

Sooner or later, we must kill the Beast.

[SpectorV]

the more gas you save then the more my cobra has

[Ken Cheema]

i dont know if you guys have seen this but i saw it on i think the speed channel, yah deff speed. i think some show tanner foust hosts. they have made a 1000 hrpw replica cobra. i mean the old 427 cobra. and the best thing about an electric car they say is, when you have cars that are like 500 hrs plus, when you take off all that power is there. its not like an engine that has to rev up! its all there off the line!

[Mustang GT HO]

The only thing is the range. Only 120 Miles????

[Thomas91169]

its not really range, its time it takes to refill/rejuice.

100mi range wouldnt be shit if it took 2 minutes to juice it back up. then again, electric cars are mainly for people that require a short-range driver, and would be perfect in that aspect. they could also make long range versions with weaker powerplants and figure out how to get a lighter chassis. 120mi is still pretty good, seeing most with that sort of output levels on a gasoline motor can only get 150-200 miles per tank anyways.

I dont see an issue with electric cars as long as our already crappy power grid is revamped to account for even 1 out of 10 homes trickle charging these fuckers every night. right now its simply not going to work with the infrastructure we have,

BTW the Tesla Roadster is a badass car, and looks great, has great performance, and is also fully electric. Right now the only drawback is price. Give it a decade or less, price will match that of normal gasoline vehicles, ranges will be greater and they will be even better performing. Our children will talk not about horsepower and cubic inches, but of winding output and voltage draw (or some shit like that)

[IceMizer]

So should we start thinking about mods that will make these electric cars sound loud and powerful? Time for someone to build the "simulated engine sound producing machine".

[dagamore]

I forgot where I read/heard this but if only 15% of the US switched to a grid powered (i.e. plug in) electric car(not a hybrid) that it would cause massive power outages due to the fact that our power grid has next to no overhead.

I also heard somewhere that there is not enough lead in the world if half the cars in the US were replaced with Hybrids/electric cars, don’t know if this part is accurate or not, but sounds good.

Also keep in mind that if world wide gas usage goes way down the cost of it will go up. Due to fewer buyers paying the shipping/production costs.


but that mustang sounds good.

[IceMizer]

And what will we do with all those batteries when they are "dead"? Full of lead and other toxic and corrosive substances they cant just be tossed in the trash. How much will a replacement battery cost? This move to battery cars is so knee jerk reaction its beyond stupid.

[Herbstang]

Quote: Originally Posted by IceMizer And what will we do with all those batteries when they are "dead"? Full of lead and other toxic and corrosive substances they cant just be tossed in the trash. How much will a replacement battery cost? This move to battery cars is so knee jerk reaction its beyond stupid.

Agreed !!! time to get into the battery disposal industry

[dagamore]

when i lived in WA state, i used to recycle old lead car batterys in to bullets, but hey the few joys of smelting/casting my own lead. Too bad i cant do that here. my back yard (all 10sq meters of it) is too damn small to setup a full on oil fired smelter.

[Ken Cheema]

Quote: Originally Posted by dagamore when i lived in WA state, i used to recycle old lead car batterys in to bullets, but hey the few joys of smelting/casting my own lead. Too bad i cant do that here. my back yard (all 10sq meters of it) is too damn small to setup a full on oil fired smelter.

jeezz remind me to never get on YOUR bad side. Melt my car into bullets and shoot me lol

[Ken Cheema]

Quote: Originally Posted by Herbstang Agreed !!! time to get into the battery disposal industry

We have a winner! lol ill start the R&D lol

[Ken Cheema]

Quote: Originally Posted by Thomas91169 its not really range, its time it takes to refill/rejuice. 100mi range wouldnt be shit if it took 2 minutes to juice it back up. then again, electric cars are mainly for people that require a short-range driver, and would be perfect in that aspect. they could also make long range versions with weaker powerplants and figure out how to get a lighter chassis. 120mi is still pretty good, seeing most with that sort of output levels on a gasoline motor can only get 150-200 miles per tank anyways. I dont see an issue with electric cars as long as our already crappy power grid is revamped to account for even 1 out of 10 homes trickle charging these fuckers every night. right now its simply not going to work with the infrastructure we have, BTW the Tesla Roadster is a badass car, and looks great, has great performance, and is also fully electric. Right now the only drawback is price. Give it a decade or less, price will match that of normal gasoline vehicles, ranges will be greater and they will be even better performing. Our children will talk not about horsepower and cubic inches, but of winding output and voltage draw (or some shit like that)

its scary to think our childeren wont know what we mean when we talk about big blocks, ect. ect.

[1234]

So you spend $80k+ for a car that is electric and goes 0-60 in 3.9 sec. And tops out at 120mph.

LAME.

[Thomas91169]

Quote: Originally Posted by 1234 So you spend $80k+ for a car that is electric and goes 0-60 in 3.9 sec. And tops out at 120mph. LAME.

people said the same thing when comparing "cars" to their then normal means of transportation (Horse) a hundred years ago. Cars were slow, ugly, expensive and loud compared to hoofed transportation, but look at what happened.......

btw if its the Tesla roadster you are thinking of, remember, its only a 1spd. The electronic motor is governed at that certain rpm that it must spin to achieve 120mph; and so far any tranny they have used has grenaded itself, and the ones that live or are strong enough for production would raise the cost of the Roadster by 25% or some bullshit like that. You could modify the ecu to let the electric motor spin faster (its just a voltage regulator at that point) and viola, you just modded a Tesla Roadster.

The costs of said vehicles will drop considerably during the next decade. you are talking about a car thats very limited production coming from a company that didnt exist 10 years ago.

[1234]

Fair enough