All-electric Wheego Whip hitting America in May... slowly

You can probably tell from the image above that the Wheego Whip isn't the fastest automobile to ever hit the streets, but it'll still be getting Americans from point A to point B before most of those other "concepts" will. The company is currently looking to score dealers that will sell its "electric LSVs (Low Speed Vehicles)," the first of which is obviously the Whip. If all goes to plan, it'll have 50 dealers across America by May, and given that this is "the best affordable electric car in the world" (that's the words of RTEV CEO Mike McQuary), we'd say all 50 should be brimming with customers. Unfortunately, we're not told just how fast slow this thing actually goes nor how expensive cheap it'll be, but hey, May's just a few months out, anyway.

[MarsOnTheRocks Posted Feb 18th 2009 3:36PM]

And pluss. Imagine this: I'm Faroese (as in born and raised in Faroe Islands...look it up) and the longest distance you can drive on those islands, in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean, is some 70 km(!). Now with these cars in Faroe Islands, it's easy to imagine how many gasoline cars could be replaced by cars like imiev and the like (like every single one ;)). But as of right now I study in Århus, Denmark, but even here I could travel allmost to the capitol (even though I would never do that as the parking is very expensive), or to the most northern or southern part of the country on one charge as of todays proclaimed range of some 160 km. Now that is nice. Especially taking into consideration that Mitsubishi is going to place quick charging stations around in the country around the same time the are set to be sold here :)

Very nice indeed :)

Martin Andreas

[MarsOnTheRocks Posted Feb 19th 2009 3:36AM]

And pluss. Imagine this: I'm Faroese (as in born and raised in Faroe Islands...look it up) and the longest distance you can drive on those islands, in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean, is some 70 km(!). Now with these cars in Faroe Islands, it's easy to imagine how many gasoline cars could be replaced by cars like imiev and the like (like every single one ;)). But as of right now I study in Århus, Denmark, but even here I could travel allmost to the capitol (even though I would never do that as the parking is very expensive), or to the most northern or southern part of the country on one charge as of todays proclaimed range of some 160 km. Now that is nice. Especially taking into consideration that Mitsubishi is going to place quick charging stations around in the country around the same time the are set to be sold here :)

Very nice indeed :)

Martin Andreas

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 18th 2009 7:54PM]

@wagon

Um, I'm not a Palin fan at all, but you CAN see Russia from Alaska.

http://www.slate.com/id/2200155/

[FILA Posted Feb 18th 2009 8:58PM]

i can just see now gettin behind one of these damn things, ill pass them doing 80 or something, shit wouldnt even be that fast since it wont be able to do like 60, ill blow them away in the ditch