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Can GreenGT's all-electric roadster win one of the world's oldest races?

Can GreenGT\'s all-electric roadster win one of the world\'s oldest races?

Swiss-based startup GreenGT has a car in the works called the Twenty-4 it hopes could compete in the demanding France's 24 hour Le Mans race in 2011. That's a rather lofty goal in itself, but it gets even crazier — GreenGT's car is an all-electric vehicle, powered by two 100-kw electric motors. It's got some beefy stats, for sure — zero to 60 in four seconds and 350 to 400 horsepower to boast about — though so did the Tesla, and the jury's still out on that.

The Twenty-4 was designed by five students from the CCi du Valenciennois in France. Even if it doesn't win, it'll never lose when it comes to looks. Check out more of the Twenty-4 in the gallery down below.






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GreenGT, via CarPlatform, via Inhabitat

 
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By Canned Turkey at 9:59 AM ON 05/27/09

Go! Speedracer! Go!

By PTRICKY at 10:39 AM ON 05/27/09

Looks like the Enzo

By Greener at 10:57 AM ON 05/27/09

now throw some detachable solar panels for the morning part of the race there you go non-stop. add some kind of human waste converter for some more endless energy!

By MHWKcrue at 11:55 AM ON 05/27/09

thats a sexy car, mabey they should mass produce this car, i would buy one as long as bigger people could fit in it

By halcyon at 1:18 PM ON 05/27/09

This car looks like it can beat the record. It looks really streamlined so that the wind can bend as it swifts through it. The spoiler itself looks to help with the transition between speeds. I hope it it completes the work it was made for.

By Jessireebob!!!i! at 6:54 PM ON 05/28/09

PTRICKY

It looks nothing like the Enzo. They both have four wheels, though, if that's what you were referring to.. :)

By Lotus Zen at 12:30 PM ON 05/31/09

The Twenty-4 is not just another fancy race car doing the 24 hour Le Mans race, Do you folks realize that if it wins the race what this would mean for the future of the car industries, Not to mention the Future of finally going Green & perhaps a BIG step into saving our favorite Mother Earth?
Even if the Twenty-4 dose not take 1st place but at least finish the race, the traditional car industries are going to be forced by the World economist such as you and I to start producing cars for the common citizens that can out perform any gas guzzlers that are in the world to day, Its time that we all stand up & say NO to our governments & the guzzlers car industries, stop buying gas cars & force them to make Green cars at a economic price for the common citizens of the world, even better Our Government should let us turn in one of our gas cars for a free trade with a green car, If our Governments will not do this than we must impeach, over throw, riot, vote out, or do whatever we must to get rid of the murderous Governmental Officials we have ruling over as now. Why Murderers? Because they are killing our precious Earth, & in doing so killing us!
Here is to change, here is to the future, Cheers hope for our future to the Twenty-4!!
Peace, Love, Light
Lotus Zen =^.^=

By Repair Man at 11:29 PM ON 05/31/09

More snake oil. Article didn't bother to say where the care would get the roughly 5,000 kW-hrs of energy to drive those motors. Thinking batteries, ha! Good luck building a 17.3 gigajoule battery that wouldn't be the size of a building.

By Andy at 11:59 AM ON 06/01/09

Repair Man... most electric cars regenerate some of their power from braking but I do doubt this car can make it the whole race without a recharge during pit stops.

Lotus Zen... are you volunteering for a new (nuclear, coal, hydro electric dam) power plant in your area? If we make the switch to electric cars, all that power needs to come from someplace. Some grids are already over taxed when people start turning on their AC units... brownouts and rolling blackouts are just the hint of what may be coming.

BTW, all those people touting how great they are on the environment with their electric and hybrid cars by only looking at the emissions from their tail pipe and are conveniently forgetting about the total footprint from the manufacturing of the batteries and those light weight composites etc that car is composed of.

By Lotus Zen at 12:33 PM ON 06/03/09

Repair Man..... Andy ......
Both of you are correct about totally battery powered cars, But we have to start some where.

Andy... I defiantly agree with you about "only looking at the emissions from their tail pipe and are conveniently forgetting about the total footprint from the manufacturing of the batteries and those light weight composites etc that car is composed of." but you have to admit that its better than croaking out the good ol' fashioned gas guzzlers.
I would love to see a cure that is a combinations of electric, solar panels, wind, hydrogen, & whatever elts we can throw into it to make it "Once we get it started & moving" a perpetual motion vehicle.

If the human race is to survive we will have to change our entire life styles & way of thinking, there is no one great solution that will save us, but it will take multiple solutions.
we all must take baby steps and hopefully soon find a middle path. thank you

In peace, love & Light. (humbly Bows)
Lotus Zen =^.^=


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