[nativepaul]

Ah, mass production well I dont have much hope for the wrightspeed, the atom it is based on isn't even made in large numbers and while driving one is great fun, most folks want the practicality of a roof for when it rains or at least a windscreen.
I think the Tesla will see it, it starts production this year and if popular it could take off, they make a shed load of Lotus Elises, Exiges and Vauxhall VX220s so its very possible.

I think any decent electric car will be about 80k mainly due to the huge lipo pack, I've thout about an electric car and a 2000A 400V speedo is about 2.5k and a 150kw brushless motor from 3-5k, so they could do an RTR format car fit your oun battery and drive for 35k.
I have allready seen the price of Lipo drop and there capabilitys increace enormousely, with new 20C cells we be lighter and cheaper than the prototypes

I agree with Squee, you'l never catch me in a hybrid for the same reason I won't be fiting a nitro engine, dynamo and charger to my new electric buggy, the weight of carying an engine and fuel for extra milage kills mileage you can go without using the engine and the peformance.

The wrightspeed blows away even the supercharged typeR Atom despite being near 700kg, here's a bite from the wrightspeed website:-
In recent track testing, on street tires, it achieved the following performance:
0-30 mph: 1.35 sec
0-60 mph: 3.07 sec in 117 ft
0-100 mph: 6.87 sec
0-100-0 mph 11.2 sec
Lateral g: 1.3
Braking g: 1.2

The X1 production car will be better… much better.