Making electric cars isn’t enough; constant up gradation is required to convince people that this actually works. Swiss auto company GreenGT will be launching a fully-electric vehicle that is ‘heralded to be the most powerful and cutting-edge electric race car ever built’. It will be designed with the famous Le Mans race in mind and will boast two 100-kw electric engines that provide 350-400 horsepower and a top speed of 171 mph. A svelte green supercar is also being developed to compete in the 2011 race.

This car was designed by five students from the CCi du Valenciennois school. It will feature a fiberglass body on a carbon-fiber monocoque chassis. The vehicle’s twin 100-kw electric motors will provide around 350 to 400hp of power that will push the vehicle from 0-60mph in around 4 seconds. GreenGT’s head engineer Christophe Schwartz has stated that “The GreenGT Twenty-4 design study could become our 2011 Le Mans Prototype electric racer or it could even become an electric road going supercar.

[Inhabitat]