E-Ruf

This is basically a publicity stunt by Ruf. The car is dangerously overweight, (over 350lbs over the GVWR without driver or cargo,) and the EV specs are clearly a mangled hash of numbers fed to somebody who knows nothing about electric propulsion. More importantly, the performance claims are completely unachievable. NO electric car will ever go 160mph and have a range of 155-200 miles with existing or even near-possible battery technology. This car might have a top speed of 100 or so mph, but it also likely has a usable range of about 25-30 miles. How you get from there to the development targets is basically to throw the interior, drivetrain, systems and accessories out, change the EV power system and batteries, maximize the aero package, and perhaps replace all the metal panels with carbon fiber. Even then you probably won’t make it. Is that doable? Practical? I’m sure Alois Ruf knows all of these simple facts. You couldn’t own this car and not have learned that by now. Its just another example of the silly nonsense perpetuated around the public’s latest wave of interest in EVs, in this case from a publicity hound capitalizing on the journalists’ ignorance of the subject. There are many, many good, fast electric road and track cars. This big fat Porsche tuner development mule isn’t one of them. In EV terms, its a cynical trick.

I’m certainly one to appreciate burly exhaust notes, having installed a flowmaster exhaust (and not one of the quiet ones) into my red Firebird.
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There’s more things than a healthy rumble when it comes to cars, though, and when given the chance to get into the driver’s seat of my own electric ride (which would have to be configured like the Tesla) I might miss the sound but what I gain would be much more important.