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<blockquote data-quote="vlad411" data-source="post: 1434452" data-attributes="member: 1256">What is green, has eight wheels, two wings, doesn’t fly, and apparently is difficult to make up a joke about? That’s right, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliica" target="_blank">Eliica</a>, an electric car prototype developed by Japan’s Keio University. The Eliica’s most notable quality is its eight wheels, each with its own electric motor and energy-regenerative disc brake system, which produce a total of 640 horsepower and a top speed of 230 miles per hour. The front four wheels steer the car, which also has two rear gullwing doors. Instead of a flux capacitor, the Eliica is powered by 80 lithium-ion batteries which can be easily charged from a residential power grid in about ten hours. Although the future is unclear for this futuristic car, we hope to see more of this green machine as it attempts to challenge gasoline-powered speed records.View more pictures of the Eliica in the gallery above. <a href="http://www.eliica.com/" target="_blank">+ Eliica</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="vlad411, post: 1434452, member: 1256"] What is green, has eight wheels, two wings, doesn’t fly, and apparently is difficult to make up a joke about? That’s right, the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliica"]Eliica[/URL], an electric car prototype developed by Japan’s Keio University. The Eliica’s most notable quality is its eight wheels, each with its own electric motor and energy-regenerative disc brake system, which produce a total of 640 horsepower and a top speed of 230 miles per hour. The front four wheels steer the car, which also has two rear gullwing doors. Instead of a flux capacitor, the Eliica is powered by 80 lithium-ion batteries which can be easily charged from a residential power grid in about ten hours. Although the future is unclear for this futuristic car, we hope to see more of this green machine as it attempts to challenge gasoline-powered speed records. View more pictures of the Eliica in the gallery above. [URL="http://www.eliica.com/"]+ Eliica[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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