The Venturi Volage Electric Roadster

5 by LiveOAK Staff on October 17, 2008

Possibly the most jaw dropping of all the fuel efficient super sports cars we've featured, the Venturi Volage, is an all electric, high performance machine. This lightweight carbon fiber chassis is powered by 4 individual electric wheel motors. This system offers a tremendous performance and handling advantage over a single drive system, plus they offer an equivalent 295 hp and can launch this beauty from 0 to 60 in under five seconds.

The 45 kWh Polymer Lithium batteries gain some boost from a regenerative deceleration system and at 55 mph it has a range of approximately 200 miles. Using the onboard charger it can charge up in about 8 hours or using an external charge booster you can have this car up to full power in 4 hours.

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Now for the bad news that I'm sure you've already guessed. This beacon of efficient power and beauty isn't slated for production until 2012. There's no word on price now but I think it's safe to say that you'll have to pay Venturi an arm and a leg to get one. Let's just hope they make some huge advances in prosthetics over the next 4 years, because I have to have one.

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http://www.pansypatrol.com Clint

Definitely a cool car. As you said though, it’s not going to be cheap.

- Clint
http://car-swap-meet.damox.com Electric Car Carl

Are those acceleration numbers any better than the Tesla Roadster? I thought the Tesla was claiming something like a 4 second 0-60 time. Also, I think Chrysler is working on a high performance electric car that should be out before 2012 and will have the backing of a company that has the resources to plow hundreds of millions of dollars into a car.
http://cbelectriccar.com/blog/electricity-4-gas/electricity4gas-review-how-to-make-an-electric-car/ Will

The Venturi is definitely one freaking nice looking electric car. I wander how many batteries it take to power this vehicle.
wouter

the tesla roadster has faster acceleration. For what it’s worth, I think teslamotors’ cars will be one of the better ones!!
Uncle B

Expect this car if not better, mass produced for cheap, from Asians, in the next decades, in carbon fiber or better, and with superior batteries, exceeding the patent buried EV-1′s batteries! America obsessing on the “Volt” sheet-metal nightmare vapor ware has been bypassed! After the recession, building as we speak, when oil skyrockets due to Asian demand and weak dollar, the American “Manhattan Project” scale electric bullet train system will unveil, making long distance cruises in cramped cars, small airliner seats, obsolete, and paving the way for battery “Shuttle Cars” such as this! Hang onto your Hats folks it’s gonna be one hell of a ride these next decades! GM(America) gone, Asian forces doubled,in population too! Yuan bidding against a dollar falling in value for oil we borrow to buy – gone to $15.00/gal! Change in our lives driven at computer speeds! Veggies and rice replacing hamburgers, beef out of practical reach for most! Even our toilets, dry and composting – no flush, just wrap it and ship it to the bio-gasser bio-degradable bag and all! The roar of a great American V-8 engine as rare as Clydesdale’s hoofs on pavement today!