You built... an all-electric DeLorean?

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If you didn't think the DeLorean could get any more awesome, you were... probably right. Because this one's just like a normal one, only with electric stuff where the engine should be.

This "DMCEV" has been built by the Texas-based DeLorean Motor Company - no relation to the ill-fated Belfast-based manufacturer of yore - and was unveiled at the International DeLorean Owners Event in Houston, Texas.

The manufacturers claim it'll hit 60mph in 4.9 seconds, and have more than 200bhp when it's ready for official launch in 2013.

Epic EV already produces a three-wheeler called the Torq Roadster, which hums out 200bhp via a 44V/156V electric motor funded by a 24-30 KWh lithium iron phosphate battery. So the proposed performance isn't wholly unrealistic (providing EEV's not telling porkies).

It's built using 80 per cent original DMC kit, while the remaining 20 goes on uprated suspension and electric powertrain gubbins. The batteries, which add more than 90 kilograms to its heft, have also been repositioned so it gets rear-biased 35/65 weight distribution. Inside, it gets an iPhone dock, retrim and funky steering wheel (as seen below).

There's no word on price yet, which begs the question - how much would you be willing to part with to get your hands on one? Tell us in the handy box below, TopGear.commists.

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This car was built with a printer

Remember, that huge beige abrupt thing in the corner, you papers for to buy and never properly? We bet you never looked at it and thought, "I could a car come from that make one day".

Jim KOR have. He is the project leader of Urbee - the spherical, in the images - which was presented on the TEDxWinnipeg Technology Conference, Canada. And, as with electric motors and a small ethanol engine driven (combine back 200 mpg), the body parts by using a special 3D to create the printer. You send a file and a very complicated is it three dimensional beautiful.

Apart from the exciting futuristic Tech is another reason this is good news. Because while the pressure are currently working out of Minneapolis-based Stratasys is carried out, the Urbee theory partly everywhere with a 3D printer and an Internet connection could be established. This would cut out Emissionsy - and expensive - shipping and transportation. They would more fuel used in the noble quest to go and have fun.

Currently only the composite panels are printed, and Jim told the BBC that he hopes that other parts so in the future be created:

"This process could revolutionize how we do things." "It has changed my way of thinking about production certainly"

Under this inkjet shell is a rather traditional stainless steel housing with low resistance tyres. The baby of a pot makes 8bhp motor and electric drive, supplemented by a number of optional solar panels on the roof. Better suited to California as Chipping Norton, then.

Estimated prices range from $10,000 (£ 6,500) up to $50,000 (£ 33,000) depending on whether the Urbee can achieve mass production.

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