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Lightning Car Company plans three more electric cars

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 – assuming the fledgling automaker is still able to use hub motors from bankrupt PML Flightlink – that will get their electrons from 36kW of Altairnano NanoSafe lithium titanite batteries. According to its maker, the car should be able to accelerate its carbon fiber and Kevlar self to 60 mph in just ... Read more →

Electric sports cars abound in UK EV test Domenick Yoney

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 ...

Will Lightning GT show roll on? Domenick Yoney

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 ...

Video: Lightning GT unveiled, in action, and spotlighted Domenick Yoney

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 ...

Lightning GT out of the bottle at British International Motor Show Domenick Yoney

The moment many green-loving speed enthusiasts have been impatiently waiting for has finally arrived with the unveiling of the all-new Lightning GT at the British International Motor Show. The sheet ...

Lightning GT to make debut at British International Motor Show 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The "Electric Vehicle Village" at the British International Motor Show is getting another sports car to keep the Tesla Roadster, also to be on display, from completely hogging the electric-car limelight. The British designed and built Lightning GT will get its world-wide debut at the show which ...

Top 20 green cars we wish we could buy today, Number 14: Lightning GT 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click image for a hi-res gallery of the Lightning GT Featuring 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 ...

More details on the Lightning GT, Not here and not cheap! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo a a gallery of high res images of the Lightning GT After we posted the initial information on the Lightning GT yesterday, we contacted Arthur Wolstenholme, the Technical Director at the Lightning Car Company, to get more information on the new car. At this time they only have gas ...


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