Koh has a set of photos from his test drive of the Eliica, an electric vehicle prototype built by Keio University.
0-60 in 4 seconds, 230 mph top speed. Engines inside the wheels, 8 of them. Pretty wild.
The official website is here and the development team has a blog (in Japanese.)
I was there, too
The visit started from a conversation between me and hokamura-san.
Professor Shimizu, the guy who spent 26 years in developing this electric vehicle from ground up was so kind to give us a ride back to Shin-kawasaki station
He is trying to raise fund. If people visit his lab and give it a try, everyone would believe it would be easy (to raise funds) for something that is so much thought out. But so far, prof. shimizu has been only talking to Japanese companies.
http://www.teslamotors.com
I think the Eliica is an interesting design study, but the Tesla Roadster is, apparently, a commercial product.
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