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but will they ever exist?
Making a battery-powered supercar
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GIVING YOU THE VAPORS20
LOTUS EVIJA 8.9
Innovative, janky, and
long tilting toward
disaster, Lotus has
recently been revital-
ized by a cash injection
from Chinese multi-
national and Volvo owner
Geely. Its first new
idea is this $2.1 million,
1972-hp, 200-mph lim-
ited-edition missile.
TESLA ROADSTER 8.0
Elon Musk’s follow-up
to his first two-
seater—which initiated
his company and this
category—seems like a
logical move. But this
Roadster’s 620-mile
range, 1.9-second zero-
to-60 time, 250-mph
top speed, $200,000
price, and 2020 delivery
date seem dubiously
ambitious. If it happens,
we’d expect it to be
in Q5 of 2020.
RIMAC C_TWO 7.9
With the exception of
being the birthplace
of racing legend Mario
Andretti, Croatia is notknown as an automotive
powerhouse. Rimac
hopes to change that
by making 150 of this
1914-hp supercar, which
it says will rip to 60 mph
in 1.9 seconds, hit 258
mph, and cost $2 million.
Porsche recently invested
in the company and now
owns 15.5 percent of
Rimac. That seems like
a good omen for the
C_Two’s shot at reality.PININFARINA
BATTISTA 6.7
The famed Italian
coachbuilder promises
1900 horsepower, a
sub-two-second zero-to-
60-mph time, a 217-mph
top speed, and a price of
$2.2 million. Extensive
carbuilding experience
and deep funds from
Indian conglomerate
Mahindra might help
accomplish some of this.
DRAKO GTE 6.5
The GTE has four doors,
four motors, and a
Fisker Karma platform.
The bros who startedDrako promise, for the
projected price of
$1.3 million, a 206-mph
top speed and “cornering
precision unlike any
other supercar on
the road today.”PIËCH MARK ZERO 3.3
The Mark Zero combines
traditional sports-car
design with a vaporware
powertrain and the
fear-inducing surname
of a recently deceased
VW Group chairman in
the alleged service of
delivering a 3.0-second
sprint to 60, a 155-mph
top speed, and over
300 miles of range.
FISKER EMOTION 2.8
Designer Henrik Fisker
(the same guy who
started the Karma
program) serially seeks
out new, improbable
projects. His latest
venture promises
neck-snapping accelera-
tion, pipe-dream battery
and autonomous-driv-
ing technology, and a
low-six-figure price.DECEMBER 2019 ~ CAR AND DRIVERLOTUSPININFARINARIMACPIËCHDRAKOFISKERTESLA