October 1st 2008
Great Scott! All-Electric DeLorean For Sale On eBay!
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads...
Filed under: green and famous — michael @ 11:03 am
The DeLorean is one of those cars that conjures up instant memories of Marty McFly, Doc Brown, and a certain-time traveling plot line that takes us back to November 5, 1955. What person doesn’t have Back to the Future on their list of greatest ’80s movies?
Anyways, an all-electric 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 is now up for auction on eBay. Obviously — in the future — there’s a severe tax on polluting, gasoline vehicles, so it makes sense that this owner was forced to upgrade to avoid sticking out. That, or its “extreme quiet” is much better for avoiding rogue Libyans.
The one-off conversion was done by the seller and a friend and uses a WarP 9 electric motor that gets juice from thirteen 12 volt 100 amp-hour deep cycle Deka 9A31 Intimidator AGM batteries (they take up the trunk and underhood spaces. These can power the car for a 40-mile range and recharge in eight hours from a standard wall plug or 2-3 hours from a 220-volt outlet.
Picking up on the fact that the DeLorean will forever be tied to the movie, the seller has also agreed to “include the custom build ‘Flux Capacitor’ shown in the pictures.” Of course, this is only if you agree to the buy it now price; a staggering $100,000. As ABG quips, at that price, you’re probably better off saving up for a Mr. Fusion!
Check out all the details here. Current bid is just over $15K.
[...] via ecorazzi: The DeLorean is one of those cars that conjures up instant memories of Marty McFly, Doc Brown, and a certain-time traveling plot line that takes us back to November 5, 1955. What person doesn’t have Back to the Future on their list of greatest ’80s movies? [...]
oh, if only I had a $100K… wonder if it comes with a hoverboard?
that’s the p-power of love…
[...] Electric DeLorean? Why not. Car collectors are incurable. DeLorean collectors can tell you a few things about it. So converting a DeLorean to electricity, is it sacriledge? It’s no secret DeLorean had a very limited choice of engines when it settled for the under-performing PVC. Swapping it out for an electric one might finally reveal the car’s natural capacity. The numbers, sporting a WarP 9 electric engine with 13, 12 volt 100 amp-hour deep cycle Deka 9A31 Intimidator AGM batteries, it has a 40-mile range and recharge in 8 hours from a standard wall plug or 2-3 hours from a 220-volt outlet. It’s current bid is at $17,875.00 and the converter-owner is optimistically hoping for $100,000 buy-it-now price. [...]