The current crop of electric cars is great and all, but there’s really nothing better than a DeLorean. So to join the two the staff at Wired Italy has decided to convert the car–made famous as a time machine in the Back to the Future films–into an electric vehicle and then taking it on a road trip from Milan to Rome.
The team is actually still at work on the project, and is expected to finish up in about a week’s time.
“We made a calculation of what the car needs to travel properly–how many batteries, what kind of engine–and then we made plastic mockups of the parts,” Wired Italy‘s features editor Massimiliano Ferramondo said. “We started to consider where they could squeeze and how they could get in the car and if putting the pieces in that place was proper for the balance and performance of the car.”
The plan is to make it to the Italian capital in time for the Rome Film Festival. And along the way, Universal Pictures will be sponsoring screenings of the iconic film in the various places the electric DeLorean stops. But it looks like this road trip may just be the beginning for the car.
“Probably, it will go back on the street hopefully and will be the first one of a bigger project,” Ferramondo said. “The reason we have the website is that we want to reuse this and we hope that it will become a real race and maybe have ten of our readers who have made the most bizarre electric cars to join us.”
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