Green Options » X1 prototype http://greenoptions.com/tag/x1-prototype Posts tagged 'X1 prototype' Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:03:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en An Electric Car With Muscle: The 175 MPGe X1 Prototype by Wrightspeed Inc. http://gas2.org/2008/06/04/an-electric-car-with-muscle-the-175-mpge-x1-prototype-by-wrightspeed-inc/ http://gas2.org/2008/06/04/an-electric-car-with-muscle-the-175-mpge-x1-prototype-by-wrightspeed-inc/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:03:51 +0000 Clayton B. Cornell http://gas2.org/2008/06/04/an-electric-car-with-muscle-the-175-mpge-x1-prototype-by-wrightspeed-inc/  

X1 Prototype electric car

The X1 prototype: Faster Than Your Average Ferrari.

Most of the time I like to profile cars we might actually get the chance to drive, but it never hurts take a look at the forefront of technology. Enter the X1 prototype, an open-canopy electric vehicle that meets somewhere between go-cart and Indy-500 race car.

Think electric vehicles can’t hack it? They don’t all look like golf carts, and they sure as hell don’t all poke around under 65 mph: The X1 was just featured in a series of Mythbusters’ tests where it beat a Ferrari in a quarter-mile race (see MythBuster: Why Electric Vehicles Beat Gas in 5 Extreme Tests).

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