http://www.autoblog.com/2015/07/09/ethos-la-bala-electric-is-one-more-quixotic-ev-hopeful/ Ethos La Bala Electric is one more quixotic EV hopeful Jul 9th 2015 Danny King
[image http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/legacy_thumbnail/800x450/format/jpg/quality/85/http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/721f83034688054f74f0c9bc5c30590c/202251316/4711257_1435123107.5518_funddescription.jpg ] Juneau Company Says It Can Make An EV Priced At As Low As $28,000 One electric-vehicle maker with more than its share of northern exposure is looking to get some southern comfort in the form of crowd-funding dollars for its prospective prototype. The company is Juneau, Alaska-based Ethos Electric Vehicles and its goal is to make an electric vehicle that can be priced as low as $28,000. First, though, the company needs to do some crowdfunding over on Gofundme. Ethos Electric Vehicles says it plans to retrofit the La Bala kit cars with electric power. La Bala is a two-seat, open-cockpit vehicle with no doors or windows. So the company, in addition to switching out the internal combustion engine for an electric motor, plans to add doors and windows as well as storage space, a heater and air conditioning to the vehicle. Improvements to the body finish and an upgrade of the rear suspension are also being proposed. The company says it's been in talks with La Bala owners for the past six years about making this conversion vehicle, so Ethos Electric's principals have obviously thought about this for quite a while. Ultimately, Ethos Electric Vehicles says it will make an EV that will be priced from $28,000 for a two-wheel-drive version to $60,000 for a top-of-the-line all-wheel-drive model. As of early Thursday, though, there hadn't been any takers, as the company hadn't raised dollar one on the site in its first 14 days of being listed (the goal, according to the site, is $175,000 to make the prototype, but we're thinking that a photo on the site of the company's empty shop space may not be helping matters). [© autoblog.com] ... http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/07/20150705-ethos.html Alaska EV company seeking crowd-funding for low-volume production AWD electric roadster 5 July 2015 ... [images http://bioage.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4fbe53ef01b7c7a99593970b-popup http://bioage.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4fbe53ef01bb084da847970d-popup ] ... http://www.gofundme.com/labala Sexy affordable AWD EV sportscar For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/28-60k-Juneau-AK-Ethos-La-Bala-quixotic-EV-just-add-175k-tp4676833.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
