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The Fastest Car in the World – and its Green!

It’s faster than a jet, can out handle a roller coaster, and it is environmentally friendly. How, you ask? Starting with only the most exciting super car to drive EVER, the Atom, then adding an electric motor. What you have then is a beautifully designed engineering masterpiece, the Wrightspeed X1. With its minimalist design, consisting of merely a frame to hold everything in place, 3 pedals, a steering wheel and a seat, its more like a stripped down motorcycle with 4 wheels than it is a car. Its basically a street legal go cart. But what does that do for it? It makes it incredibly light! Pair that with an AC Propulsion 3-phase AC induction motor and inverter, and you have rocket-like propulsion from the on-demand torque.

Unfortunately, there are no plans to make this particular design a production vehicle, heck, its hard enough just to get a regular Atom, but they do hint that there will be a production version of the X1. I’m not sure what that means, but i’m still interested.

For those who like specs, check out these numbers:

In recent track testing, on street tires, it achieved the following performance:
0-30 mph: 1.35 sec
0-60 mph: 3.07 sec in 117 ft
0-100 mph: 6.87 sec
0-100-0 mph 11.2 sec
Lateral g: 1.3
Braking g: 1.2

Hopefully high performance automobiles like this will strike a nerve with car enthusiasts, sparking a bigger desire to own a car ‘just like the ones on TV’. In a way, its already working.

Related posts:

1. Worlds Fastest Electric Superbike Motorcycle – The TTX01
2. Mission One Street Superbike: Worlds Fastest Electric Motorcycle Title Revoked!
3. Another Really Fast Electric Sportscar – McLaren Supercar Style – JJAD P1E
4. Tesla Model S Electric Sedan
5. Brammo Enertia TTR Electric Motorbike

Tags: Aerial Motor Co, Atom, Automotive, Electric, Prototype, Sportscar, Supercar, Wrightspeed X1

2 Comments to The Fastest Car in the World – and its Green!

1. [...] To get a view of this bike, and several others like it, check out the world’s first clean emission Grand Prix to be held at the Isle of Man during TT race week in June 2009 which should showcase some fast new electric bikes. If you like fast and electric, you may want to checkout the Wrightspeed X1 electric supercar. [...]
Worlds Fastest Electric Superbike Motorcycle - The TTX01 Street Bike | The Chic Ecologist on December 1st, 2008

2. [...] Articles: Wrightspeed X1 Electric Supercar – Based on the Aerial Atom Sportscar TTX01 Electric Superbike – Fastest Electric Street Bike Solar-Powered Electric Biodiesel Hybrid [...]
JJAD P1E - McLaren Designed Electric Supercar Sportcar | The Chic Ecologist on January 27th, 2009

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