The eBox – Hybrid Car Spotted in SF
- Posted by Bill Belew in Automobiles
Nov 28,2008
I am a little slow sometimes. Okay, a lot slow. I spotted an eBox at the SF Auto Show. I thought to myself, “This car sure looks like something to me.” Duh…it’s a modified 5-speed Scion xB wagon.
The way it works is after buying a Scion for $15K “engineers will remove the internal combustion engine and related components, and install AC Propulsion’s electric drive and battery system composed of more than 5,000 small cells.” The cost of the conversion is $55K. At that price, we wonder why people aren’t knocking down the doors.
I wonder how much it’d cost to make the car from scratch? Why can’t we be Earth-friendly without breaking the bank?
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One Response to “The eBox – Hybrid Car Spotted in SF”
Or, to bring up another point, if you’re gonna spend $55k to e-convert a car, why — oh WHY — make it a Scion xB? Sorry, maybe it’s a personal vendetta, but there’s a reason Scions are frequently glared at and perform deplorably on driver polls (see carfunfootprint.com or even google “scion xb ugly,” which brings up hilarious results on page one). I hate how they’re even marketed as super-hideous but functional cars to GenY-ers (I’m in that age bracket) who probably think it looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright building, or something.
But then again, this allows you to call the car an “ebox”.
Anyway, looking forward to the release of that 100 MPG Prius…
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