81 mph in 10 seconds

‘Gone Postal,’ as the Jeep is known, has 40 batteries, each weighing 40 pounds, with a peak draw of 4,000 amps at 240 volts. It is the pride of the EV racing crowd, who consider its shape ideal. People who don’t like the look of it ‘don’t understand the concept of the sleeper,’ says its creator, Roderick Wilde. ‘It’s the little-old-lady-from-Pasadena theory — you get something that doesn’t look like it goes very fast, and then it blows everyone away.’

The Electric Battery Acid Test by Judith Lewis.

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