i want one!

They are an automotive x prize entry, so best of luck to them.

I wonder how they will meet US crash standards, and really hope they do!

Wow...that is own low-drag shape. Beautiful.

The Loremo is an Automotive X Prize competitor, and this move to an electric version may help them be a better competitor. The Automotive X Prize is a multi-million dollar prize for a mass-producible 100 MPG vehicle which wins a staged race across America. That's a super tree-hugger kind of event! For more information on the Automotive X Prize and the Loremo, check out:

X Prize Cars: Loremo and Automotive X Prize official site.

me too ;) !

I like this car. If people that were building electric cars wouldnt go out of their way to make them as ugly as possible, more people would buy them.

Just one more promise that will be broken. We have been seeing these posts about miracle cars for years and just where are the ones on the road? I'll believe it when I can buy one from the dealer down the street without selling my grand children into slavery.

I think the best hope of a high mileage car coming to North America will be a three wheeler. That way they can circumvent a lot of regulations and cost that go with it. It will be a motorcycle as far as the law is concerned.

I like the elective version, but why diesel? Diesel has issues with emissions and cost. People think that diesel is amazingly efficient, but don’t take into account the 15% higher density, energy and C02 it has per volume.

From what I have read in European newspapers the Loremo will be produced.
There is already a waiting list to get one (diesel version).

In Denmark petrol and diesel cost approx. $8/gallon and there is a hefty tax rebate on cars that has good mpg. Thus a Loremo would be dirt cheap here. (And the electric version would be tax exempt).

When VW produced their LUPO, Denmark took some 85% of the production. That was a tiny diesel car that could do 75 mpg. The price was $36.000 which is a reasonable price here.

Personally I will go for the electric version. My daily commute is less than 50 miles and taking into account that Denmark is less than 200x200 miles big I believe that many people here will find the electric version very interesting.

Where is the door? It looks like there are no door seams.

Would be great to see one going down the road.

vsk

I like the look of the car, and concept behind it. For the commenter who asked: The front in is the door. The entire front end of the car lifts forward, and it looks like you step in and sit down. A fuller article here explains it http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=457882

The only real problem I see here is that the car is open to the elements when entering and exiting the vehicle. I'm curious as to how much wanter ends up inside when a person, or worse - a couple, are entering and exiting during a rain storm. I can't see how the designers missed that. I don't know, maybe it doesn't rain in Germany. But from the pictures I've seen, that country has a lot of green trees for a place with no precipitation.

I would also probably feel a little cramp inside, with a passenger. I had more shoulder room in my Elantra than this thing looks like it has, and I always felt cramped by my passenger when driving my Elantra. But, that's a small issue, and more of a personal one.

On a lighter note: Where's my cup holders? Where am I suppose to set my Big Gulp in my 150 MPG status symbol?

THE Cor has spoken.

If you look at the specs, you will find that there is a 6’2” height limit in the front seats and 5’2” in the back seat. Yikes, that’s small. I always wish my insight had a much lower roof to reduce the cross sectional area, but I think this car is too small. Look at the picture with the people standing around it. Maybe it should be considered a mirocar, which they should bring back by the way.

I don’t like diesel because of the extra engine cost, the extra fuel cost, the pollution and oil dependence.

If you look at the specs, you will find that there is a 6’2” height limit in the front seats and 5’2” in the back seat.
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Maybe it should be considered a mirocar, which they should bring back by the way.

I thought the automotive X-prize had some size criteria, i.e, 95 percentile male must fit in the car, so maybe that explains the generous front seat and small rear seats.

Maybe instead of HOV lanes, we need micro car lanes with relaxed crash test requirements. I've brought up the point that legally I can ride a motorcycle with no helmet, so why do I NEED crash protection in a car? FYI, I wear leathers and a helmet all the time when on the bike)

"I don’t like diesel because of the extra engine cost, the extra fuel cost, the pollution and oil dependence. "

If you're talking extra cost of a diesel versus a gasoline engine, the diesel will usually pay for itself in relatively short order.

three things diesel is much more efficient than gas because it uses a compression engine instead of a combution engine the diesel motor lasts longer than gas motors because gas is harder on engine parts.
deisels explode the fuel and gas motors burn it you tell me which should work better. Deisels were orriginally built for tracters to run off of peanut oil and it is possible with a two tank deisel truck or car to place a heater in one tank and run the automobile off of peanut oil or used fryer oil from resturaunts. as I do (offroad use only)