Xtreme Motorsports to offer a high performance electric sandcar

by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Apr 24th 2008 at 3:32PM

~~Extreme~~ Xtreme Motorsports already sells a line of EPA-compliant recreation vehicles known as sandcars, and they are looking to reduce the environmental impact of those sandcars even further. To that end, Xtreme has completed engineering and manufacturing plans of a new all-electric sandcar. The new "Zero Emissions Sandcar" technology will be available in both the Sportster and Dune Racer models as of April 28th, 2008, and the company says that three are already reserved for 2009. Azure Dynamics provides the lithium ion battery, motor and controller for the new recreational vehicle, which is able to accelerate from zero to seventy miles per hour in just five seconds on the way to a top speed of 105 miles per hour. Xtreme cites a 200-mile range, which seems awfully high for this amount of performance. According to Alan McCaa, president of Extreme Motorsports, "It's just pure, clean, non-polluting off-road fun!" That's a concept that we can really get behind.

[Source: Xtreme Motorsports]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USA

Tags: electric sandcar, electric-sandcar, ElectricSandcar, sand car, sand-car, sandcar, xtreme, xtreme motorsports, xtreme-motorsports, XtremeMotorsports

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Richard 4:04PM (4/24/2008)

I don't think that it sounds too high, remember, the car doesn't weight anything, and so it should go extremely far. I often thought about a dune buggy as a wonderful EV, since you can make it with lead acid batteries and still get 100 mile range due to the low weight.

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Mark 3:23AM (4/26/2008)

I'd say the outstanding performance and range are probably a result of a light car.... Less weight in all that safety crap that cars have. Less weight in doors, air conditioning, roofs, lights etc.

We should build "normal" cars more like this.

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Alan McCaa 4:24PM (4/24/2008)

The milage is "up to 200 miles". Obviously if you use the vehicle to it's full capacity the overall range is reduced. However, at peak performance, climbing hills, racing our friends and pushing it to the limits constantly, you can still get around 110 - 125 miles on a vehilce that only weight 1650 pounds and saves $160 in full every 4 hours. :) These are the future in our opinion as 8 dollar a gallon race fuel is simply a waste of money and the enviroment.

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Katch 6:48PM (4/24/2008)

nice idea if you can drive it to a house to plug in, but how are you supposed to charge it when you are camping in the middle of the dunes for a week with no electrical hookup, gas generator?. Its a city sand rail. If I have to sip fuel, id put a twin turbo 4 banger in there. otherwise its an LS2 V8. I can offset emmisions in other eco friendly ways.

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Alan 12:38AM (4/25/2008)

This Sandcars is not for use on the street and is strictly for off-road use. Virtually every sandcar owner has a generator they run their toyhaulers or motorhomes off while camping. simply plug it in while your having lunch and your ready to go again afterward. Also, this package will out run a 550HP LS2 all day long and has more torque then a Twin Turbo LS1. With race fuel a $8 per gallon for a TT LS1 sucking 20 gallons every 3.5 to 4 hours, three times a day is hardly sipping. We've built Sandcars for 25 years. Sell the weak LS2 V8 and Go with a more powerful green car that you'll save over $25,000 in fuel over the life of the vehicle. That's not counting, the repair and replacement of transaxles, oil changes, and other environmentally harmful issues. Anyone that don't get the benefit of these, simply don't care anyway.

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Alan 12:42AM (4/25/2008)

Additionally, use .25 gallons (or $1) to charge your electric sandcar on an EPA approved generator vs. a polluting high performance V8 engine.

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meme 2:17AM (4/25/2008)

[quote]. Additionally, use .25 gallons (or $1) to charge your electric sandcar on an EPA approved generator vs. a polluting high performance V8 engine.[/quote]

Huh? Then you're just using it as a series hybrid, and it's not going to get any better performance than a series hybrid would (apart from the slightly reduced weight), and not save you any more money than that.

If you really want to go green, well, it's on a beach. You have sun, you have wind, you have waves... is it really that hard to have a portable, clean power source in this situation? :)

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Kevin Nugent 5:25PM (4/25/2008)

Thats hot

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