BRUSA brings all-electric Spyder to EVS24
BRUSA Spyder - Click above for a high-res image gallery
BRUSA, a Swiss electronics company, recently attended the EVS24 conference in Stavanger, Norway, with an electric sportscar called the Spyder in tow. Our best guess is that this machine is based on either a rear-engined Volkswagen or possibly a Porsche 914, and it obviously takes styling cues from the classic Porsche 550 Spyder – never a poor route to take as far as we're concerned.
Powered by a couple of 95 kW electric motors – one for each rear wheel – the Spyder is reportedly capable of scooting to 60 miles per hour in under 5 seconds. Power comes from a 16 kWh lithium polymer battery pack from Kokam, which is enough juice to provide for a range of 125 kilometers (77 miles) at 80 kilometers per hour (about 50 miles per hour). Of course, the car's actual range is dependent on a number of factors, so BRUSA helpfully provides a chart to figure it all out.
A liquid-cooled charger resides underhood, along with the rest of the assorted electronic goodies to make it all work, and a full charge reportedly takes four hours when plugged in to a 16-amp, 220-volt outlet. No word on whether or not the car has any chance of production, but we're not holding our breath.
Gallery: BRUSA Spyder
[Source: BRUSA, Wired]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MIke!!ekiM 12:24PM (5/23/2009)
WOW. A Super EV1.
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downtoearth 8:38AM (5/22/2009)
I've got a suggestion for Autobloggreen generals.
Would you please be so kind to send one of your writing soldiers to the country where the future will be (China) to carefully and in details test and evaluate THIS CAR?
http://images.google.com/images?q=BYD+F3DM
Rumours say its very slow when in range-extender mode, the all electric range is a half of what has been promised and sales figures are disappointing.
On the other hand, it is the swansong of true plug-in electric hybrids, the first of its kind that can actually be used by human beings in an everyday fashion and can be bought. The fugly crock of shit described in the post above can't.
The problem is - all the motoring blogs in the world expel tons of useless articles and posts about yet another cars which are exactly the same as the other ones so unmeasurable terms like "soul", "character" and "mojo" need to be used to make the new models appear significant.
Yet the most important car get no attention at all! Is China really that far away?
Stop writing about cars that will never matter, like the one above. It won't be produced, it won't make it through crash tests, the company will charge a billion for it due to lack of scale economics and will soon become insolvent anyway. Or will stick to electric lawn mowers.
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Buckaroo 2:06PM (5/22/2009)
The car is actually based on the german Rudolph Spider:
http://www.rudolph-roadster.de/html/spyder_mit_elektroantrieb.html
You can actually buy this car with a conventional engine (assembled or as a kit). I have seen the announcement of the electric version on their homepage a while back. The production is planned to start mid 2009 (that's what they say on the homepage :-) ).
cheers
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