Students build all-electric Porsche
Students at MIT have been tinkering with a 1976 Porsche 914 -- converting it to run on electricity and go 100 mph for 135 miles without a recharge. Plug it in for five hours and it's ready to go again.
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I'm not at all surprised as my daily driver gets 200 miles per gallon and the plug-in hybrid project in my work shop is expected to get 1000 miles per gallon.
Just imagine what the automakers could do if they wanted to.
Posted on June 9, 2008 7:17 PM
I'm more and more tempted to make my next car a Smart car -- but I'm worried that, as with the iPhone, something cheaper and even better would make my car nearly obsolete a few months later.
Going to have to pull the trigger sooner or later, though.
Posted on June 10, 2008 11:50 AM