Topic: The DeLorean fulfils it's destiny with Electric version

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Jalopnik gets a taste of the new Electric Delorean DMCEV that DMC plans to make for a limited run in 2013.

And by the looks of it, The car will finally have the power it always promised.

They've removed the underpowered PRV V6 guts and replaced them with a 260 hp (equivalent) electric motor. Its interior gets updated with some modern switchgear and electronics.

"Turn the key until you hear the click, then turn the center dial over to 'D'" DMC president Stephen Wynne tells me. Honestly, I'm still buzzing from the sensation of closing the stainless steel gullwing door just moments earlier. I twist the key and rotate the surprisingly weighty metal dial. Silence. I press the gas pedal, which, true to form with any 1980s exotic, has so much resistance it's more like a piece of gym equipment.  Press harder, and we silently glide forward.


Wynne and I are on a 3/8 mile oval track that I didn't know existed in Houston until about 15 minutes ago. He calls this DMCEV "version 0.9" —  a not-quite-1.0 working prototype that the company has been dreaming of for years and testing for a few months. It has some amazingly trick parts, including an integrated iPhone dock inside and a hinged grille up front that opens to reveal the charging port.

It's being developed with the fittingly-named Flux Power, a California battery systems company launched by a co-founder of Aptera. In testing around southern CA, this prototype has had a range of 70 miles "comfortably" and closer to 100 miles when driven extra efficiently.  That's Nissan Leaf territory.

http://jalopnik.com/5850448/electric-delorean-first-drive

So, for the low loooooow price of 90,000, you too can own an electric DeLorean.

Check out the gallery too! Theres some neat pics there.

[Reaperoid]

As long as it gets you where (or when) you need to go.

[Flame]

Well the Electric engine is supposed to give the performance the car was originally meant to have.

[Bueno Excelente]

If people actually start buying DeLoreans and it starts being a real and reputable car company, it would be the greatest thing ever.

[Flame]

I once sent then  question as to what would happen once they ran out of stock parts to build new cars and repair them from, but never got an answer.

What they should do, is make the DMC2 that John DeLorean was supposedly raising funds for before he died.

I THINK this is it



Could be wrong. Then again, the Delorean's classic look is what makes it so iconic. Not just the name. (although thats a big part too)

It WOULD be neat if they became a reputable car company again.

[Sub Tank]

It doesn't run on plutonium?

[Protoman Blues]

It doesn't run on plutonium?

I'm still waiting for my god-damn talking, self-drying, perfect fit jacket!

[Turian]

This was parked at my local wal-mart. Insane.

[Flame]

That's certainly an epic encounter.

Though you'd be surprised, there's quite a few folks out there with original DeLoreans.

[Archer]

it'll only fulfill it's destiny when it time travels

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