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Dale Vince, the CEO of Ecotricity, has announced that their electric sports car, which so far has not been given a name (just tagged the “Wind Car”), is ready to name his electric dream vehicle. Back in May of 2008, Dale announced his intention to “build an electric sports car to rival the Tesla.” Ecotricity, the company Vince runs, is a wind energy company in the UK and the announcement for the car was made on Vince’s blog, Zerocarbonista.

Getting off to an immediate rocky start, the car’s design took twice as long as planned and the first model had numerous mechanical issues. This after $150 million USD had been spent on the project.

Apparently, the car is ready for unveiling, but not until it has a name. To get the ball rolling on ideas, Vince has proposed three names: Zero, Nemesis, and Storm.

The following is my own list of names for this car, since there isn’t much in the way of photographs of it to generate ideas from:

• Unaffordable: Just like the Tesla.
• PublicityGetter: Which is what this car is really for.
• ElCaminoEV: Since for all I know, that’s what it looks like.

Obviously, this project is not just, well, dubious, but on all fronts appears to be nothing more than a publicity scam pushed by this CEO to keep his company in the headlines. So far, nothing of substance has come from this EV other than a lot of publicity for Ecotricity (which is mentioned often in all this).

Sources: 1, 2