Electric Porsche 911 by RUF: "Emotions without emissions"

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Electric Porsche 911 EV photo

We recently wrote a post about 5 Eco-Cars Faster than the Porsche 911. But soon, we can add the electric Porsche 911 to the list of eco-cars...

Electric Porsche 911 EV photo

A Water-Powered Car, In a Way
The vision for this concept is pretty inspiring:

The fundamental ideas that lead to the development of the eRUF concept vehicle came from Alois Ruf. The car maker from the Bavarian town of Pfaffenhausen had a vision of a simple energy transfer concept: his hydroelectric power plants, which feed 35 million kW hours of electricity annually into the German electrical network, could also more or less directly power modern autos. 35 million kWh is enough energy to power one of the prototypes eRUF as described below for 3500 journeys around the globe – or 3500 of the cars one time around the world each.
The idea seemed even more inspiring, as it would be possible for him to connect cars directly to the emission-free power plants for charging and drive away on the water-generated power.

But we're still waiting for a really inexpensive and practical electric car or plug-in hybrid that most people can afford. We're moving in the right direction, but faster would be better (and sadly, the credit crunch might delay things).

Electric Porsche 911 EV photo

As you can see, the Porsche EV looks pretty much like a regular Porsche 911 from the outside. Car buffs might be worried about weight distribution, and while we don't have any specifics on that, we can probably expect RUF to have paid attention to keeping handling as good as possible.

Electric Porsche 911 EV photo