ian wright Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:38:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 WrightSpeed X1 – The First Retired Electric Sportscar https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-the-first-retired-electric-sportscar-20081222/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-the-first-retired-electric-sportscar-20081222/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:38:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1419 Remember Ian Wright? Right, he's the inventor and producer of Wrightspeed X1, the first most famous electric sportscar. This summer his car was on top of all the newspapers, environmental and auto blogs. Now, the same famous sportscar with plans to be commercialized and developed in the coming years, is being retired and put on the shelf. Why is that happening?

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-the-first-retired-electric-sportscar-20081222/feed/ 2 1419 WrightSpeed X1 – 170mpg/300 horsepower SportsCar https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-170mpg300-horsepower-sportscar-20080330/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-170mpg300-horsepower-sportscar-20080330/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:08:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/06/wrightspeed-x1-170mpg300-horsepower-sportscar/ This is the Wrightspeed X1, built by Ian Wright (51), the first employee from Tesla Motors. It is a full electric car that can do 0-60mph in about 3 seconds. You wish it could go further than that? Yes, it can go. Future plans are to adopt changes that boost it to about 2seconds for […]

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