My Blog About Racing: Finally official, the Nemesis "Wind Car" has a coming out party

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Finally official, the Nemesis "Wind Car" has a coming out party

Ecotricity Nemsesis - Click above for high-res image gallery

Dale Vince's "wind-powered" Nemesis electric car has finally made a public appearance during its official "launch" at the RAC Brighton to London Future Car Rally. The sad news? Anyone hoping for a production version of the Nemesis will be disappointed to know that any chance of that has pretty much been quashed. The happy news? Vince and his team are working on a second-gen Nemesis, one that might be able to go 250 miles per hour. Because when you're building electric vehicles for the fun of it, why not make them outrageous?

Want some headline specifications for the Nemesis? Of course you do:

Top speed: 170mph
0-100: 8.5 seconds
Battery capacity: 36kWh
Range: 100-150 miles depending on driving style
Cost: Under £1m
Time to build: 18 months

With that kind of cost and build time, it's no surprise that the Nemesis isn't going to be easy to come by. Still, on top of the "no-holds-barred 250mph+ wind-powered electric supercar" that the Nemesis might beget, the team is also working on "an electric tractor to address the next big issue of how we feed ourselves post-oil." That doesn't sound like nearly as much fun, but it's easy to see how it will be more practical. The team does have one more non-essential challenge left for the Nemesis: trying to break the British electric car land speed record that was set at 139 mph by the Bluebird Electric in August, 2000. The attempt will take place in 2011. That's odd. We thought the record had been set at 291 mph already.

See more specs and the official presser after the jump.

Gallery: Ecotricity Nemesis