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May192011
No Airbags
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 9:15AM | Ralf Becker | in Video | tagged Beetle, Käfer, Motor Mavens, Stephen Brooks, VW, Veedub Low n' Slow. Enjoy.
Entries in Beetle (2)
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 9:15AM | Ralf Becker | in Video | tagged Beetle, Käfer, Motor Mavens, Stephen Brooks, VW, Veedub Wednesday
May122010
Black Current III: Electric Drag Race Bug
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 11:08AM | Ralf Becker | in Chromjuwelen, Video, Web Find | tagged Beetle, Black Current III, Bug, Dragracing, Electric, Käfer, Tesla, VW, Volkswagen 
The Black Current III is the work of two European brothers named Olly and Sam Young, who started the project six years ago when they dropped a milk truck motor they'd found into a VW Beetle. Now the car claims the title of Fastest Zero Emissons car in Europe thanks to two electric fork truck motors, 60 Odyssey PC680 12V batteries and a Zilla 2K motor controller all delivering 1200 lb-ft of torque to the ground.
[...] 0-to-60 MPH time around 3.0 seconds and a quarter-mile run of 11.24 seconds at 114 MPH [...]
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Via Jalopnik