3 of the Fastest Electric Cars Meet for Lunch at Buck's

I think I just drooled all over my keyboard.

I think I need a new keyboard as well....

"I think I need a new keyboard as well...."

Because of drool, or something else? ;)

Totally awesome. Does anyone know the owners of the three cars?? Anywhere any of those three vehicles goes turns into a major photo op...

A car's height should not exceed its width, especially if it's capable of 0-60 in 4 seconds.

That skinny one will tip over going around a corner faster than 6.2 mph. I'll take the Ariel Atom/Wrightspeed version please.

The Tango is very bottom heavy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_Cars_Tango

The Wrightspeed X1 is an electric version of the Ariel Atom. It's a one-off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightspeed_X1

Everyone knows about the Tesla being low production supercars.

If you can afford one of these, you could probably just build your own car from scratch and call it a kit car. The good news is that you could spend more still on a ICE supercar.

while I think it's silly that the Tango is so skinny (when have you ever NEEDED to park in such a skinny parking spot legally?) the center of gravity is really low due to the high battery weight. There is much more to making a car stable than low height.

There's more to cornering than C of G. And of course, it looks silly. If you want to actually sell cars, you'd do better not to make them look ridiculous. There are far better ways to package a single driver and a small cargo volume.

Cafe is the next Plug-In Electric station.

I'm surprised the tzero isn't there. it is faster than the tesla.

TZero is not being sold currently ... but the eBox is, and should have been at Bucks ! ... however ...

2 of these cars plus the ACPropulsion eBox are reviewed in this new Plugin Car Buyers Guide I just found at http://electric-cars-today.com and bought this week.

I was looking for something like this to help me buy a performing electric car in 2008-2009. The philosophy of this guide is right on track in my opinion - they state buying a plugin today is not for financial reasons but to really help at the grassroots level to help the US wean itself off oil (especially foreign petro-dictator oil).

So far I have not found a guide as well organized and as comprehensive and 12 months of updates comes with the report, to boot.
I hope I don't sound too much like a gratuitous plug for these guys... but the guide is good ... and I hope mentioning this will get Bucks Restaurant to post this buyers guide in their restaurant !
and more importantly to help more of us early adopters to actually go out and make a near-term purchase and help the "buy plugin today" effort that is just starting now.

Thanks for listening

yeah that cool . but cooler yet would be EVs priced the same or less than our typical gas powerd comuter cars !! super sports cars always cost big bucks and go fast but evan the rich arent comuuting everyday in the super cars they own.

0-60 in 4 seconds...where? Why? That's the kind of thinking that got us into this energy mess. We all need to understand the direct relationship between unnecessary - meaning wasteful - energy use and the costs of energy, including financial, political, social and environmental. Sure, it's way cleaner and inherently more efficient to run a car on electricity than on oil, but we already do not have a surplus of electrical generation capacity and until electric car owners (or communities) make their own electricity from solar or wind, then driving faster than necessary and lead-footing it for short stretches between traffic jams is using energy that we get from burning fossil fuels or (at best and not without costs way beyond financial) hydro-electric.
These guys; Tesla and Tango, et-al have been promising production cars for years and telling us that the hot rods are only to demonstrate intent and technology and to lead to rational Volts Wagens for the masses, but they're dissipating their resources; money, good will, time and credibility while failing to produce anything useful. Meanwhile, we're all (mostly) not doing everything we can while we wait for some product (electric, fuel cell, whatever) so that we can just spend money to get us out of this jam. Tango and Tesla will still be floundering, no matter how much money Elon Musk and his credulous investors are willing to waste, when Honda and Toyota and Nissan introduce excellent, fully-formed, perfectly-engineered electric cars.
In the meantime, don't drive and maybe you'll discover that you don't need an expensive new product at all.

Gary

"0-60 in 4 seconds...where? Why? That's the kind of thinking that got us into this energy mess."

Electric motors are different from internal combustion engines. More powerful motors are actually more efficient to a point, and when you don't use the acceleration, you don't use more power.

How fast will the Tesla roadster go through a 1/4 Mile? Same question for the Tango.
The Wright speed is 11.1 seconds.

You hop to say, they three faster electric car in U.S.A.

Where is a very fast car Mini Quad?

Throw in an Aptera and I'll start drooling too

Sorry to all, but I cannot get excited over heavy fast cars whether they are gas or electric.

LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT!

I can leave a bit earlier to get to work. I can take a bit longer getting to where I'm going.

I can't cheaply build an electric car that goes far at present highway speeds. Give me 35mph and I'll build a solar electric car for under $2,000. Give me 35mph and I can build bikes that can reasonably keep up with traffic.

LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT.

I can't feel safe riding in green vehicles down America's road system when I have to compete against 2,000+lb vehicles traveling at high speeds (commonly ignoring the limits and laws) and neither can my children.

We can keep the interstates moving fast, but please lower the rest. Is it too much to ask?

Talking about affordability of the new electric cars brings to mind that when I was selling Commuta cars back in 1980 in California they sold for a whopping 3,650.00 !!!! Wish I had kept my demo..

I am not big on the Giant Shoe design of the Tango.
Who pays $6.25 for a Root Beer Float?

$6.25 for Root beer floar!! So, these morons are designing cars for the folks that can afford $6.25 floats. A very small market with very little benefit to the everyday consumer.

Tesla and others are just looking for publicity and free press, while I work on a real practical solution for everyday folks. Affoardable and practical. Comming Soon!