BEIJING—In a quiet technology park near the Chinese capital’s airport, a former Beijing Jeep executive is completing a plan to create China’s first homegrown electric sports car. Lu Qun’s idea: design and build a battery-powered sports car that is 2003: Tesla Motors is founded in California. 2004: Tesla Motors begins work on the Tesla Roadster, a 100% electric sports car based on the design of the popular and stylish Lotus Elise. 2005: Who Killed The Electric Car? is released in cinemas. 2005 The electric range should provide an advantage for BMW over its it could prove to be a tough pill to swallow for many of the today’s sports car models. We’re thinking under 7.0 seconds for the acceleration from 0-62mph (0-100km/h) times and even have criticised a new Chinese sports car as a 'pastiche of the worst kind', claiming it looks suspiciously like a Ferrari and Porsche combined. The Suzhou Eagle Carrie has been marketed as an all-electric sports car which is capable of 0-62mph in just Having tackled electric cars and solar energy, billionaire Elon Musk now wants It is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery based on the same technology that powers Tesla’s Model S sport sedan. A less powerful version will sell for $3,000, not including In a quiet technology park near the Chinese capital’s airport, a former Beijing Jeep executive is completing a plan to create China’s first homegrown electric sports car. Lu Qun’s idea: design and build a battery-powered sports car that is cheaper .
As sports cars, delivery trucks, and even buses go electric, one vehicle has kept rumbling along on fossil fuel: the good old garbage truck. That's about to change. This summer, 17 trash trucks in Northern California will be powered by electricity On today's edition of the Daily Czabe, Steve Czaban and the guys discuss the latest news topics from around the globe. Be sure to catch The Steve Czaban Show weekdays from 6-10am ET on Yahoo! Sports Radio. Tesla may be turning heads in the US with its small fleet of electric vehicles but in China, EV enthusiasts’ eyes are focused on what could be the country’s first homegrown electric sports car. Recently shown off at the Shanghai auto show, the car is But there were many electric cars before that, from both established manufacturers 1975 Enfield that can run the quarter mile as fast as a 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport--as a loving writeup in Transport Evolved describes. At first glance, the two-seat .