Sneaky, BBC, sneaky

[bellinghman]

At a scant 8 minutes past midnight this morning, this article was posted on the BBC News website. It purports to describe a possible electric Roller.

This would appear to be an April Fool.

Except for this 3 week old article in European Car News.

Comments

[nojay.livejournal.com]

I reckon the Geneva Car Show report was just pre-planning for this April Fool joke. The physics and engineering of it don't make much sense -- a 2.7 tonne car can get a 125-mile range with a battery pack small enough to fit into the engine compartment space? It might be feasible if they also filled the boot with batteries but that's not what they claimed. I'm also wondering how they mananged to cram an electric motor plus drive system (diffs etc.) into the back end, supposedly where the petrol tanks are located on a petrol-engined Phantom. To get decent performance (claimed 0 to 60 in 8 seconds) that would require a large motor of at least 300kW continuous rating with a liquid cooling system to stop it melting in the confined space.

I'm still very suspicious...

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm going with this story instead.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The Guardian had a piece about Stan Lee doing an Arnie the Governator comic book, which I assumed was an April Fool. At least, I hope it is.