Ruf Develops Electric Powered Porsche 911

Too bad, the nice engine sound will go away..

It always amazes me how fast a small private company can come up with these new inventions way faster than the big 3. They may be more expensive, but then again you are talking about a small company.

RUF IS NOT A PORSCHE TUNER! Ruf is an independent car manufacturer in its own right. Porsche merely delivers those parts to Ruf that they don't manufacture themselves.

i appreciate RUF as one of the best companies to manufacture sportscars, but who on earth needs a elctric 911? i mean the 911 is supposed to be a real sportscar and and therefore it needs real sound and speed. i mean in 20 years okay but nowadays? naaah

now THAT's what the eco-freaks should be doing. making proper performance cars - okay, so it's slow compared to a petrol, but it's getting there

Cool it guys! Nothing lasts for ever, Internal combustion engines soon have to die, ofcourse we are going to miss them, but they have to give way for alternate power source. The pace of electric car developent is somewhat slow, I predict some well established brannds would soon die giving place to emerging ones.

now is the right time to start

lol, well just wait and see soon we'll be hearing rumours of Lamborghini and Ferrari developing an all ellectric car soon. This whole business with all electric cars is a joke. Rather develop a vehicle that runs on ethonal or bio- oh wait they are have but the auto manufacturers and the government are closing the door on it because then they'd lose money on the taxes for the fuel. Think about it, the power you putting in to charging these so called batteries will be putting power stations on overload and it's only a matter of time before we have a huge power outage again. and then how much money will that cost to repair. Screw the government and screw these eco freaks. Earth is already F%#$ed, nothing we do now will make it any better.

wwoooo more heavy than a Veyron!!! :(

Mr. Alois Ruf should be congratulated for his brave , pioneering efforts towards this project.... a rather environmentally - responsible initiative from a high-performance petrol-powered car manufacturer on a par with Italian supercar marques . He even made the Porsche 997 properly very good to look at with the deletion of those UGH-LY nasal air intake apertures that ruin the once-sleek 993S of old . I certainly hope that storage battery technology be further improved so that its present bulk and limited operating range could be optimised for the better .

incidentally , this car has got to be the sexiest-looking and manificently-performing eco-car in motoring history !

A hybrid version would be nice, just switch it on when your not in need of your engine.

comes with an in-dash toaster too.

Pre-packaged electicity producing chemical reactions are not a solution in case of changing energy sources and never will be.

It is because energy by his very nature have no sources but have coordinates. Hahahahaha....

that is definitely the WRONG way to go. you don't take an allready developed preexisting supercar (that is a legend of motoring history) and turn it "eco friendly" by adding tons of batteries. electric cars must be developed correctly froma scratch as was the Tesla Roadster and is the Lightning GT. who cares about engine sound.?. time to have some peace on the streets. and NO.!. no need to wait another 50 years for electric performance on the road. the Tesla Roadster is just the proof of that. & @ a much better price... wake up.!. - http://www.teslamotors.com/ - http://www.lightningcarcompany.co.uk/ p.s.: energy wouldn't be a problem if proper planning was taken for a correct power grid.