Yet Another Startup Wants To Take Tesla's Crown With A Super-Fast Electric Car

It's a measure of Tesla's achievement with the Model S P100D that several startups are now using the car's astonishing 2.39-second 0-62mph time as a marketing benchmark
Yet Another Startup Wants To Take Tesla's Crown With A Super-Fast Electric Car

It seems like gunning for Tesla’s most powerful Model S is the fashionable thing to do right now. After Faraday Future launched its highly improbable FF91 with a target 0-62mph launch that would beat the Model S P100D, now a Swiss-German project is targeting the same thing.

The Elextra project is meant to produce a car of “the highest level of engineering and craftsmanship available” in a short production run of 100 units, but the company’s marketing lead is a seriously boastful – and optimistic – expected 0-62mph time of ‘under 2.3 seconds’.

Yet Another Startup Wants To Take Tesla's Crown With A Super-Fast Electric Car

It will use today’s most advanced technology, its makers say. It’s at least 12 months before the car will be ready, though, and it’s possible that the early teaser shots are designed to drum up interest and vital investment.

California-based startup Lucid Motors has already admitted that its 986bhp Air four-door coupe won’t quite better the 2.39-second time set by the P100D, but it’s yet another potential rival that has sprung out of nowhere, and yet another channel into which gutsy investors can plough their cash.

Yet Another Startup Wants To Take Tesla's Crown With A Super-Fast Electric Car

The Elextra will be built in Germany on undergarments company bosses call “the best electric vehicle platform in the world.” Not a Renault Zoe chassis, then?

To us this sounds like another impatient engineer with big ideas that are impossible to make happen at the first attempt. We’re not optimistic for its future.

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Comments

Monty4248

Why can try they just aim lower down in the Market, or where no EV has yet to tackle. Then, feed a few renders for like a year or three till you perfect the damn thing…

02/22/2017 - 20:49 |
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TheStigsAmericanCousin

elextra is a stripper name, just sayin….

02/22/2017 - 20:57 |
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Perhaps they want it to be literally “atractive” to the customers.

02/24/2017 - 03:57 |
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racerjack44

Reminds me of cars 3 showcase

02/22/2017 - 23:28 |
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Anonymous

The Front Of The Car Looks Like An Alien

02/23/2017 - 01:03 |
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DJ N

That’s a pretty edgy front end. And an edgy amount of power

02/23/2017 - 05:42 |
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Anonymous

Omg nice, same 0-62 than the Veyron SS

02/23/2017 - 05:56 |
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Mike Awort

Now the thing is, can it drift?

02/23/2017 - 06:43 |
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Anonymous

What is it? A car for aliens? Well, even they will say its hideous.

02/23/2017 - 20:23 |
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Anonymous

Takes R35 GTR… Solders in P100D motor… realises he’s not socially responsible and places braaap stu stu stu back

02/24/2017 - 02:41 |
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Flatbush (အစဉ်မပြတá

Watching someone trying to compete with Teska: (null)

02/24/2017 - 05:28 |
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Tesla duel

02/24/2017 - 05:29 |
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