- The electric Ghia Monster, which looks to be a serious electric racer. He recently sent out an update link to the Ghia’s new adaptor plates. Also be sure to check out the pictures gallery. My favorite has to be this view.
- Another interesting collection of images and ideas to be found over at DriveEV.com. Part of his new Mazda Truck Conversion project is replacing all of the lighting with LEDs.
- Paul converted a purple dune buggy to electric. There’s a page showing some of the guts. Another interesting photo is this night shot, not sure what the glowing thing on the back is, but that motor mount almost looks like a jet exhaust!
- Zap introduces their all electric city car in New York International Auto Show. “We designed the XEBRA to be unlike anything else on the market,” said Starr. “The use and purpose of electric vehicles is different than gas cars, so the wheel did need to be invented.” Not that they actually re-invented the wheel, more of the let’s make it look goofy approach to EVs.
oh dear!
Manufactures need to make cars look how the public expect so they feel “normal” although I would prolly own one at the right price!
The zebra look on the XEBRA is a bit much. I don’t think I would want one even if it was a great value with excellent range, etc.
I agree, if EV manufacturers really want the general public to buy that’s not a good way to convince them.
I would not buy a zebra because it is 3 wheels. I feel if i were to place my wife in there and she got in an accident she would not survive. If some one came out with an EV the size of a 96-97 Nissan 200SX – Sentra or the 96-99 corrllla I would not hesitate to buy one. I do not think that it would be that much more expensive to make a ar slightly larger then what they have since they have to go thru the same steos they all ready have in place now.
Maybe if I was tooling around a retirement village or a small city something like the zebra might make sense…although styling doesn’t seem to be their forté.
It was over ten years ago when I was there, so memory is a bit vague, but the city of Zermatt in Switzerland doesn’t allow combustion vehicles and has similar little electric vehicles running around as cabs and delivery wagons.