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Electric Porsche may be offered in 2009
12/10/2008 7:34:31 AM
A powerful Porsche sports car, minus the marque's unmistakeable bad-boy engine roar, may go on the market next year, with a German company to install nearly silent electric motors in the cars, a magazine reported.

The adapted Porsche 911 cars will be a product of the Alois Ruf customising company in Stuttgart, the weekly Wirtschaftswoche said.

While recharging the batteries will be a lot cheaper than filling up the tank of a regular fuel-guzzling Porsche, the price to drive the electric model out of a showroom will be a painful 150,000 to 180,000 euros ($A300,000 to $A360,000).

Though the electric cars will weigh a leaden 1.72 tonnes - the lithium ion batteries alone will weigh 550kg - the hush Porsche will have be able to reach 225km/h on Germany's no-speed-limit superhighways.

Ruf also told the magazine the car would accelerate from standing to 100km/h in less than seven seconds.

Luxury electric cars have attracted attention among the environmentally conscious rich, who wish to travel without carbon dioxide emissions.