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. :-(
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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