and built by highschool kids? holy bejebus!

for your enjoyment (from engadget summary):

Just as I was complaining about there not being any hybrids that I’d buy, here I’ve stumbled upon one by accident. It’s called ”The Attack” and it’s a hybrid supercar with over 300 hp developed from a AC electric motor powering the front wheels and a 1.9L VW TDi biodiesel powering the rears. The batteries powering the electric motor act as capacitors able to discharge a lot of energy in short bursts, enough for 0-60 runs in the sub 4-second range. Under normal driving conditions the car is powered by the biodiesel engine and achieves 50mpg.

And the best part is, this super-hybrid didn’t come from the Big 3 or some obscure Euro supercar maker, “The Attack” is the work of the West Philadelphia High School Electric Vehicle Team - a group of 6 high school, YES, high school kids. Mad props to these kids for giving a new meaning to “pimpin’ my ride”. WORD.

here is the bodykit's website which is from Slovakia: http://www.k1-styling.sk/

 

Holy crap! Aside from the awesome performance numbers (despite the need to swap the engines), those kids did a badass job designing that car! GM should look into hiring them as designers, maybe they'll finally sell something

 

Nice...There is hope for us all.

 

I believe they used a premade kit for the body (designed to be retrofit on a Honda Accord)...but I agree it is awesome they didn't make the hybrid look like a little geo metro :D

 

I still think that Honda's approach with the battery in the Accord would be a perfect compliment to the 8. Yeah it would raise the weight, but it is a helluva idea.

 

West Philly Represent!!!!! WOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!

 

I updated the initial post as I determined the bodykit is from Slovakia and the website I linked was only for the bodykit...not the Hybrid car

here is a pic from their website, decent trunkspace (although the hybrid's trunk is probably filled with batteries)

 

the honda dualnote is said to have 400hp and 42mpg

 

interesting, but ugly :D

 

Aye, seriously. That thing is horrifying! Why does it take a gang of highschoolers to build a decent looking hybrid? Why is this so hard? I seriously think The Attack is the first decent looking Hybrid I've seen outside of an auto show (Hybrid NSX)

 

pdiddy presents badboys of car building

that looks like chopper on the left ?

 

Good for them! Nice to see our youth is doing something besides watching MTV and reality shows.

 

The kids didn't build it, they bought the frame from the company that makes the frame(K-1), and they just thought of the "idea" of putting the volkswagen turbo biodeisel to power the rear wheels, and an AC propulsions electric motor in the front.

"Therefore, the ultra-capacitor(450 volts) pack stores only enough energy for a few minutes of blazing acceleration.

Just imagine, a group of inner-city high school students teaming up with a few University of Pennsylvania Engineering students to create the world’s first hybrid supercar."

Not really anything new, it has long been known electric motors produce way more torque than any combustion engine. Merely a case of good school funding.

 

Still, the fact that they build it is amazing. It's way more than anything most kids today will invest their time on.

 

the gvmt will never allow a good looking hybrid car onto the market ever.
bush will stop it xP he wont let us stop using oil.

 

agreed!

 

Impressive, too bad we keep hearing and seeing these awesome vehicles in the news and no where else.

 

for more info go to attackforums.com.

the car that was used by highschool was sold to them as a kit car. it uses the front (ie motor tranny suspension) of the earlier accords in the back of the car. the body was designed my the same people that helped design Lamborghini. the suspension is f1 inspired and has a 50 50 distribution. it comes ready for the f22 but can be requested to be preped for a h22 which has 60 more bhp. thats a 200hp car that only weighs 1800lbs. i think a few years ago the prototype with 140hp motor was taken to a track day and from what i remember, it slaughtered everything but a good few seconds.

the picture with the trunk is the "new" turnkey model. there has been plans of a ford durtoc v6 option putting down 300hp and whispers of a super or turbo charged durtoc putting out 400+hp which is strange to me because 400 is the max k1 recommends for the chassis. unfortunately, due to EXREMELY poor management, this project never really took off.

you can still buy one but its a high risk gamble taht youll ever get anything for your money. its no ariel atom in terms of straight line speed, but it will turn with the best of them.

denward

 

very interesting

 

yeah.. for a while i was eyeing the k1 attack, the areil atom and the gtm corvette convertion from factory 5.

attack...................200-300bhp.......1850lbs.....looks dead sexy
areil atom.............300bhp..............1000lbs.....l ooks ok but does 0-60 in 2.9!
factory 5 gtm........350-1000+hp.....2200lbs.....its basically a c5 modified to MR
.................................................. .......................ugly but out handles the c5

all were around 35-40k

ended up getting 2 track bikes and an rx8 instead

 

SH@T!!!!!!!! I have friends that went to that school I'm going to go and beat them to a pulp now. Why did I decide to stay in the suburbs.