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’.

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.

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.