Electric DeLorean

According to the article, he's going to charge as much as a fully loaded Tesla Model S for a car that has a range of 100 miles.

FAIL!

 

"Cameron Wynne, head of purchasing at DeLorean and Stephen Wynne's son, is undaunted by the suggestion that the car's limited range would be a tough sell, particularly in the US.

"The American public, when they hear about an electric car, their first question is:
'Well, what do I do when I go on a road trip?'" he says.
"But how many times a year do you honestly go on a road trip when you use your own car? You typically rent a car, because you don't want to put mileage on your own car."

Really, I have never met anyone, anywhere that did this.....rent a car, for a road trip, really?
Maybe it's a British thing. Grumpy, what do you say?
I like the car, I like the idea, I think it's 30K too expensive, minimum!
We still need Bigger, Better, Badder, Batteries!
A nice mileage number would be 400 trip miles, with a < 4 hr 220 VAC full charge time.
It will happen, it's just a matter of when!

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA :bounce::bounce::bounce:

Feels like geek central here. In other words, feels downright homey.

 

I have rented a car for a road trip twice. If you're carting a family on a long trip and you don't own a minivan, then sometimes it's nice to rent a minivan with the DVD console to entertain the kids. Secondly, if you keep cars for a long, long time, a newer model might be slightly more reliable than your vehicle. Third, if you are doing a LOT of driving, then a rental with unlimited miles beats putting all those miles on your faithful steed.

Oh, I should clarify that yes, I am American.

 

OK, that sounds logical, thanks

 

There ya go, I've rented a car for road trip twice. In both cases the road trip started and ended about 3,000 miles from home, so I saved 6,000 miles of driving each time by renting.

Here's to Great Britain where 200 miles is a long distance
and to the United States where 200 years is a long time.

 

The original Delorean DMC-12 had a 130-hp engine.

Somebody needs to put the Prius HSD into a DMC-12. Same horsepower (130hp), but double the fuel economy.

 

I did look at driving the Prius to Hungary (from the UK) last year to attend my brother's wedding. As well as the fuel and motorway tolls, I would have needed an overnight stop and it worked out cheaper (and quicker) to fly, then catch the train. Hungarian trains are really cheap.

 

Assuming 300 wH/mile, that's 120 kWh, so to recharge in 4 hours means a 30 kW charger. At 240 vac that's 125 amps. That's some mighty heavy current. Even at 440 volts you'd need about 60 amps. I think 440 is the way it will be done.

But just boost that battery to 180 kWh for 600 miles range, and now you can charge overnight. With 12 hours to charge instead of 4 (and after all, who wants to sit around for 4 hours waiting for a charge?) you'd only need a 15 kW charger, which would be much more practical.

 

The DeLorean is not the best platform for an EV because stainless steel is heavy. It's still a conversion so the batteries & all the stuff needed have to be shoe horned into the existing body. At the end of the day it's not going to have the performance of a vehicle designed to be an EV but it will look like a DeLorean. "You can have any color you want as long as it is silver."

 

A Tesla?

 

A new DeLorean, made from never used warehouse parts, starts at over 60 grand. Another 30 for a limited run, likely hand built, EV version sounds right.

The Tesla S is a better EV. It is also a new car of a, hopefully, non-limited supply. 20 years from now, the ones made today might also demand exorbitant prices like the DeLorean.