Mindset Six50 solar electric concept is light, green, and a bit homely

As the big auto manufacturers scramble to come up with fuel-efficient alternatives for us gas addicts, smaller companies are swooping in with both concepts and production models. In the latter category, we have Mindset AG with the solar electric Six50 concept you see here. The 2+2 seater is designed to weigh just 1,764 pounds and measures about 13 feet long with a slab of solar panels over its haunches. Designer Mura Güntak expects the Six50 to run just about 62 miles per charge (although an optional generator can be added to extend this), do 0-60 in 7 seconds, and plans to roll out 10,000 of these bad boys by 2009 at the cost of $78,000 each.

[Via Inhabitat]

[Josh @ Jul 8th 2008 2:24PM]

gross...

[rock99rock @ Jul 8th 2008 2:37PM]

I thought "gross" or something like that at first too. Then it kinda grew on me. Then I realized i was on drugs. Full circle. Not a true story. Your results may vary.

[tyler @ Jul 8th 2008 2:39PM]

Back to the Future ... meets Pimp My Ride

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 8th 2008 2:40PM]

Hey its the new Dodge Solar Charger!

[Bunson @ Jul 8th 2008 2:56PM]

or hippie dodge magnum.


My first impression: Pimped out ghetto hippie hearse.

[rreddy @ Jul 8th 2008 2:57PM]

...And now make your funerals environmentally friendly with the new solar-powered funeral car and a little bit of model T flair.

[phanbouy @ Jul 8th 2008 2:59PM]

"Pimped out ghetto hippie hearse"

Laaiiid back... with my tie dye in my coffin and my food stamps on my mind?

[Lars @ Jul 8th 2008 3:29PM]

I like it! Looks kinda like a coffin. Don't like the color though... give me black or something. Ohhh or wood paneling!

[CharlieX @ Jul 8th 2008 2:25PM]

Whitewalls?

Man, I'd put spinners on that pimp wagon!

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 8th 2008 3:06PM]

They see me rollin... they hatin....

[GatgetMan @ Jul 8th 2008 7:21PM]

What happens when you stick bicycle wheels on a Volvo Wagon...

[xcrunk @ Jul 8th 2008 2:25PM]

Bringing back the white walls....hahahahaha.

Nothing like a set of white walls on 22's. Yuck.

[helloUser @ Jul 8th 2008 2:27PM]

I can hear the arabs in the middle east shakin' in their boots. What will they do without their oil profits?

[phanbouy @ Jul 8th 2008 2:31PM]

probably be bombed less

[Marques @ Jul 8th 2008 2:27PM]

It looks like a mix of a Dodge Magnum and a worm that had its end cut off.

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 8th 2008 2:50PM]

Actually it looks like its missing 2 horses in the front. Wagon coach FTL.

[Marques @ Jul 8th 2008 4:25PM]

Think if I bought one, I could do a modern day version of Oregon Trail?

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jul 8th 2008 2:29PM]

This certainly settles the nearly perennial question of "has the world gone mad?"

[spaceb @ Jul 8th 2008 2:57PM]

It has!

[thatrotierkid @ Jul 8th 2008 2:59PM]

this was the deal breaker for you?

...really?

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jul 8th 2008 3:05PM]

As a red-blooded American with more than a passing interest in vehicular design, yes. I would also canonize John DeLorean if I had the power.

[Louis Sun @ Jul 8th 2008 2:29PM]

so thats what hearse in the future is going to look like.

[farfisa @ Jul 8th 2008 2:29PM]

I always thought DeLorean should've made a wagon!

[Esat Dedezade @ Jul 8th 2008 2:29PM]

Cruisin for chicks....

...will not work in this vehicle.

[stefan @ Jul 8th 2008 4:31PM]

we're geeks. We dont't cruise for chicks.... not with much success anyway.

One might pick up a girl with the Swiss number plates though... very stylish.

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 8th 2008 5:03PM]

Stefan.

Speak for yourself.

[yode @ Jul 8th 2008 2:30PM]

On them white-wall tires, with them white-wall rims...

[Scythe @ Jul 8th 2008 2:30PM]

Oregon Trail called, they want their wagon back.

[CharlieX @ Jul 8th 2008 2:36PM]

ha!

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jul 8th 2008 2:41PM]

I say caulk it and see if it floats across a river. Too bad if it doesn't.

[thatrotierkid @ Jul 8th 2008 3:01PM]

little annie died of electrocution

1) give her a proper burial
2) move on

...goddamnit

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jul 8th 2008 3:08PM]

"Here lies little Annie,
Too bad orange was her favourite colour"

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jul 9th 2008 1:49AM]

Here's the explanation to my obscure joke:
High voltage cables in cars are typically covered in bright orange casings.

Then again, maybe it just wasn't funny. Either way, I'll take it.

[Indie @ Jul 8th 2008 2:31PM]

It's a hearse!

[natels @ Jul 8th 2008 2:32PM]

78K for a car that goes 62 miles a charge.. Might as well buy some sort of hybrid and use the other 40+ K for gas..

[Interpol @ Jul 8th 2008 2:33PM]

Pontiac Aztek, meet the Mindset Six50. Don't you just love family reunions?

[superfresh @ Jul 8th 2008 2:34PM]

Good to see the El Camino making a comeback.

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 8th 2008 2:39PM]

Cant any1 take some hints from tesla????? these fugly concepts are bullshit... It seems like they are all just vaporware and nobody is serious about this because they make concepts that no1 in their right mind will buy.

[retro77 @ Jul 8th 2008 2:40PM]

Got some junk in the trunk

[EricR @ Jul 8th 2008 2:51PM]

Except their junk is actually... junk.

[Idlemind @ Jul 8th 2008 2:41PM]

Awesome Transport....

For my coffin

to my Solar Funeral....

[phanbouy @ Jul 8th 2008 3:21PM]

i just got 2 or 3 band name ideas there

[PrimeOne @ Jul 8th 2008 2:48PM]

This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction that creates photon bombardment to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need to go 88 miles per hour!

[teslasnp @ Jul 8th 2008 2:54PM]

gigawatt

[Funke, Tobias Dr. @ Jul 8th 2008 2:59PM]

What the hell is a gigawatt?!

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 8th 2008 3:04PM]

Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 8th 2008 3:05PM]

Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?

[teslasnp @ Jul 8th 2008 5:24PM]

what the hell is a jigawatt?

[donkamero @ Jul 8th 2008 2:48PM]

Ye, so why is it that all these concepts for electric cars are always so ugly? I'm sure there must be a car designer somewhere in this world that can design a car with the required space that still looks even close to normal.

[phanbouy @ Jul 8th 2008 2:52PM]

normal is as oppressively boring and nonfunctional as this design is ugly.