Feeling reminiscent about the good old days? Wishing you had your own DeLorean for a little time travel? You might not have to wait that long after all. The DeLorean Motor Company of Humble, Texas, will be bringing our favorite Back to the Future car back to life – and this time, it’s going to be green. In fact, 100% electric.
The Humble-based manufacturer debuted the new electric DeLorean at the DMC Texas’ Open House event on October 14, 2011. The electric motor in the trunk is expected to deliver about 260 horsepower and maximum speed of 125 mph. The battery under the hood is estimated to go at least 70 miles on one charge. The DMC-12 is a 100% electric vehicle and will be available on the market in 2013.
Interested in buying one? Better hurry toHumble and pre-order yours now – there are only about 7,500 available.
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The DeLorean is such an icon! At eVgo, we’re excited with its comeback as an electric vehicle. We recently had the opportunity to charge up an electric DeLorean at the company’s Humble headquarters. This is the future in the making! You can see a photo here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=302230176480596&set=a.302229793147301.64753.160983117271970&type=1&theater
Cool! The DeLorean is perfect for an electric vehicle.
And if you choose to visit the DeLorean dealer in Humble, just don’t sit in one. You’ll get yelled at.
Wow! 70 miles!
Epic FAIL!
“Fail” is a VERB, not a noun.
Really? How far do you drive to work each day, exactly?
Why not just attach a teenragor to the drive motor to recharge the battery? It works well in gasoline vehicles. Battery power to turn the drive motor which turns the teenragor which recharges the battery while supplementing the electrical system. It looks like it’s time for me to build a car that’s worth having.
But the question is, can it reach 88 miles per hour and generate 1.21 gigawatts? Might have to add the Mr. Fusion option to get a little more distance than 70 miles.
That’ s just great. But I have to drive 71 miles. Guess the car should come with a super-long extension cord.
Nice!! John Z. would be proud!
I know a guy who’s working on a flux capacitor…………
Is it being financed by cocaine sales this time? The car was a bad idea and flopped until the movie came out. It looks like history is just repeating itself here.
Asside from designing the electric motor and battery systems, it can’t cost that much to make the car, as they have all the parts for the body since they bought all the delorean parts when they aquired the company.
Why not just attach a generator to the drive motor to recharge the battery? It works well in gasoline vehicles. Battery power to turn the drive motor which turns the generator which recharges the battery while supplementing the electrical system. It looks like it’s time for me to build a car that’s worth having.
You mean like this one?
http://www.gm.com/volt
It’ll do 88mph no problem, but 1.21 gigawatts is a bit trickier.
Sounds as if you are proposing a perpetual motion machine. Remember, friction still exists.
You could potentially add multiple alternators to the drivetrain. I believe there are closed (and in a vacuum) systems with ultralow friction. There is also potential to add an additional wheel or wheels turning one or multiple alternators rotating in contact witht the road surface. Kinetic energy devices are a big hit in Formula 1 racing (electrical in this case) may also be considered.
Not bad for an old car – 70 miles on a single charge – but the BYD E6 (www.byd.com) gives you 186.4 miles on a single charge … even better that the Nissan Leaf or Renault Frendzy!
Jan25Steve Townsend Huh???? Your article is about 2 years dotaued. That question was being asked way way back then, and answered many times over. Do you have an agenda? If you were seeking the truth, you would have found the answer ages ago.For everyone else, here goes Only having a 40 mile battery saves cost. Lithium Ion batteries cost 10 s of thousands of dollars for ranges above 100 miles. GM is trying to create a peoples’ car, not a show car for the rich and famous. Since the average driver drives less than 40 miles per day commuting, that is their target. Firstly, the car is electic drive (no traditional transmission) of about 150 hp. Due to the fact that electric motors are 100 torque from 0 RPM, this is equivalent to over 200 hp performance compared to a gas engine. Then, a small 1.4 liter range extending gas (a very efficient atkinson cycle) engine kicks on to take you as far as you want to go. No range anxiety. How would you like to take your $100,000 200 mile range car out for the day, only to get stuck far from home? Even worring about it doesn’t work for the average person, does it? With the Volt, your average MPG should be well over 100 (daily driving averages considered). So, having an all electric propelled car, that gets an average of over 100 MPG, without range anxiety is a failure??? Come on. Plus, shortly you will be able to range extend with whatever you wish; fuel cell, turbo diesel, natural gas, whatever. People with this kind of short sighted attitude don’t move the ball forward. A decent site to get more info is gm-volt.com. A private blogger is running this site in his spare time. I suggest you catch up with current information.
“The electric motor in the trunk is expected to deliver about 260 horsepower and maximum speed of 125 mph. The battery under the hood is estimated to go at least 70 miles on one charge.”
Nothing about cost of this car. At 70 miles per charge (how many hours to recharge, 6?) at 70 miles per hour you get one hour of drive time (maybe) does not sound very cost effective to me unless they are going after Obama green money in which case they will get tens of millions of dollars before they go out of business and pocket the win fall of “again” tax payer dollars for this boondoggle.
The first electric car came out 101 years ago and got 40 miles per charge so you can see there has been no appreciable progress in this area in over a hundred years and that is with all the technology we have today, what’s wrong with this picture?
@billcrawford: “there has been no appreciable progress in this area in over a hundred years”
In 1899 a French electric race car called “La Jamais Contente” held the world land speed record of 68 mph; range for the best experimental electric cars was about 40 miles.
The production Tesla Model S today has a top speed of 126 mph and has a range of 300 miles. The battery can be swapped in less than a minute for unlimited range.
Now, what are you talking about, exactly?
All you need is this $249 flux capacitor and you’re all set: http://www.moviereplicasdirect.com/back-to-the-future-flux-capacitor-unlimited-edition/
perpetual motion is not far from happening, or at the very least, a never ending generator.
You can can do the youtube search for magnetic generator
As for the car, it is a cool iconic car, if they build it to be affordable, i would love one. As for all the comments, really dumb comments, how about restraining yourself for a minute.
Everyone who has studied physics knows that perpetual motion is not possible due to the law of conservation of Energy based on Newton’s findings.
>How fantastic is this! I’d been naenimg to mention how I thought that it was great that you also loved math in school, and also say that considering the amazing work you do with bead embroidery, it’s quite all right if you don’t make beaded spheres. I just love the texture your pieces have.
I recall an enterprising youg man purchased all the DeLoren’s from Northern Ireland and placed them in a warehouse some years back. Is this the same person?? Great idea!!
The original DeLorean was sexy, but a POS. Not too long after they came out, I pulled up beside one just to look and he wanted to race. My ’68 Camaro, with a 250 CID six, and a 3-speed manual tranny, left him looking at taillights. The Renault engine in them was a big mistake.
Now, like most electric cars, the new iteration has severely limited range. Until we get the battery technology to afford travel ranges in the vicinity of a full tank of gas, eCars will not catch on. The only use I can see for something with that (lack of) range is as a neighborhood vehicle. But, it’s “green”, so all the treehuggers jump on the bandwagon.