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8-Wheeled Electric Car Accelerates Faster Than a Porsche

by Peter Mychalcewycz on January 3, 2009 at 04:33 PM


Most of us want to be eco-friendly and help save the planet, we just wish there was a fun way to do it. Well Hiroshi Shimizo, professor at Keio University in Japan wants you to have fun too, so he has introduced an electric car capable of out-running a Porsche 911... Yowza!

The Eliica is an eight wheeled, lithium ion battery-powered beast that giddy-ups to 100km/hr in four seconds. If its neck-snapping acceleration isn't enough to get your attention, its top speed will. The Eliica tops out at 370 km/hr. This tree-hugging hotrod has eight wheels, each of which is powered by a 100hp electric motor.

The Eliica is raising the eyebrows of inventors and investors alike, and that is a very good thing for Mother Earth. [From: independent.co.uk]

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