Posted on 10/19/2011 10:14:19 AM PDT by smokingfrog
"Marty, you've got to come back with me! Back to the future!"
It is one of those great bits from film history -- Doc Brown, the mad genius inventor from 1985's "Back to the Future," builds a time machine out of that iconic-but-failed sports car of the early 1980s, the DeLorean DMC-12.
There is still a DeLorean Motor Co. of Humble, Texas, which supplies parts and occasionally builds new cars for DeLorean lovers, and it has now announced a new version -- a DeLorean powered entirely by electricity.
"The car of the future has really become the car of the future," joked James Espey, a vice president at DeLorean, which has about 60 employees.
So far, said Espey, the company has retrofitted one car with an electric motor. If all goes well, he said, the company would start selling built-to-order electric DeLoreans around 2013. The sticker price (if a custom-built car can have a sticker): about $90,000.
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Wasn’t it supposed to have an automatic coke dispenser?
I got over it.
I didn’t know about it either. In Kingwood.
It would be powered by an e-Cat. It would be called a “DeLorean Catlyzer Flux-capacitor,” or De-CaF for short.
He just wants to get his hands on one of those Solyndra type loans.
Will it have a “Mr Fusion” included to run on kitchen scraps?
Mark
I don’t know but I saw one here in SW Michigan yesterday.
There is another one running around Dennison Texas.
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