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2009 Bentley Continental GT

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The Bugatti Veyron is a $1.7 million wonder. It features a complex quad-turbocharged W-16 1,001 hp that requires 4 radiators and an exposed engine just to cool the thing down. It will reach over 250 miles an hour, and at that spend in twelve minutes the 26.4 gallon fuel tank will become empty. If the tank could last two more minutes, the tires would wear down to nothing, requiring the owner to spend $70,000 to have the worn tires and wheels back to france to have new tires fitted. One thing is for sure, the Veyron is the antithesis of a “green” car.

But AutoExpress is reporting that Bugatti might be trying to rectify their lack of environmental credentials with an all-electric car. In fact, the car is even confirmed that it is being built, but may never be seen by the public in the immediate future. It seems to be more of an engineers’ experiment into the feesability of the EV market.

The car is supposedly based off the Bentley Continental GT and “features an advanced lithium-ion battery pack and two enormously powerful electric motors – which deliver an awesome [1622.6 ft lbs] of torque from 0mph.”

With the price of Veyron, which Volkswagen loses money on for each one sold, it shouldn’t be too hard to produce one of the most powerful EV cars ever. However, the biggest problem with all current electric vehicles is range. Using all that torque, which allows the car to be one of the fastest road-going cars ever, discharges the batteries in minutes.

[Source: AutoExpress]