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If you've been impatiently waiting to watch electric cars rip racetrack asphalt asunder, an end to your suffering may be in sight. A new racing series branded EV Cup has just been launched in London with plans to bring 3 separate classes of cars to a half-dozen tracks around Europe beginning in ...

Back in February, the UK-based Lightning Car Company announced that it still intends to begin building and selling its Lightning GT by 2010. The £120,000 electric sportscar will be powered by one 120kW electric motor per wheel ...

Although there may be many a MINI E, i MiEVs and smart EDs taking part in that £25 million ($40 million) UK electric vehicle test program, there is also a subset of sports cars involved. The EEMS Accelerate project says it plans to have 21 vehicles acquiring electric car data for 12 months ...

It's been awhile since the sleek all-electric Lightning GT was unveiled at the British International Motor Show amidst much fanfare last July, but since then, it seems like the Lightning Car Company has been awfully quiet. Maybe too quiet. ...

The freshly unveiled all-electric Lightning GT we showed you yesterday is certainly garnering a lot of attention and video tape at this years British International Motor Show. We received a message from British electric-car vlogger, Danny, telling us he had footage of the hi-tech silver beauty ...

Click image for a hi-res gallery of the Lightning GTFeaturing PML Flightlink Hi-Pa Drive™ in-wheel motors and the Altairnano NanoSafe™ rechargeable, nano titanate batteries along with a Carbon fiber and Kevlar® composite bodywork with aluminum honeycomb crushable impact cells and a ...

Click the photo for a high-res gallery of the Lightning GT digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/New_700hp_Altairnano_powered_Lightning_GT_sportscar_coming/blog'; Another British specialist car maker has popped up with a new electrically driven sports car. With styling that looks like a Jaguar from ...