- Electric dune-buggies on steroids, the Ariel Atom. “We’re 50 percent done on (designing) the electric car,” he said. “It will be a blast to drive. It will bring notoriety to the electric field and it fits into our high performance vehicle vision.” Their web site with more pics.
- Mitsubishi’s concept vehicle, the MIEV, makes debut at auto show.
- UQM is developing Motor/Generator Controller for the Air Force. Part of the project is to convert a conventional one-half ton pickup truck to all-electric operation using high power silicon carbide modules.
- Small is big this year at the auto show.
- China to spend billions on alternative energy.
Your link makes it appear that Ariel is building an electric version of the gas-powered Atom. Is this true? I can’t find any information on that anywhere, including the page you linked to.
Are you talking about the Wrightspeed X1 ? It’s NOT an Atom and it’s not from Ariel; it’s a different car based on the same body and the AC Propulsion drive system. Unfortunate in my opinion that they chose to build off of the chassis of such a unique world-class car, with which it could only be unfavorably compared by those looking strictly at performance. Better I think, had it been an original design.
The article says, “The Ariel Atom’s design is licensed from the British Ariel Motor Car Co. but future models are designed in-house by Brian Wismann, a 25-year-old veteran of Daytona race car body designing, hired from North Carolina, and engineer Michael Sorensen, a local resident who fashions the mechanics of the vehicles.”
I couldn’t find a link to these guy’s “point-n-click” store to buy these (don’t you hate new stories that don’t post URLs?) so that’s why I posted to the Ariel site.