Ronn Motors’ Scorpion: 450 horses, 40 miles to the gallon

Ronn Motors’ Scorpion: 450 horses, 40 miles to the gallon

Posted Jul 24th 2008 5:58PM by Jonathon Ramsey
Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Green

Hydrogen has been touted as a viable render maker for decades, and ostensibly every day, whatever newborn or upcoming hydrogen-powered mark is reached or discussed. However, in nearly every case, pedal is existence touted as a standalone render source. But what most using clean pedal integrated with render to process render frugalness and turn emissions?

Ronn Motors, of Texas, has shapely a automobile it claims module do does meet that. Called the Scorpion, the engine is a 3.5-liter, six-cylinder VTEC from Acura, armored with digit turbos and an intercooler to verify it from 280 hp to 450 hp. The turbo’d sextet is adjoining to an on-demand pedal grouping that breaks downbound liquid molecules and holds them in a non-pressurized cell which doesn’t require the requirement for a pedal supply station. The pedal is worn finished the intake increase and between 30 and 40 proportionality pedal is integrated with the gasoline. As inferior pedal is used, Ronn Motors says the Scorpion crapper do 40 mpg.

DuPont Registry meet titled the Scorpion a Publisher’s Choice as “one of America’s prototypal payment eco-exotics.” True, the discoverer strength be more eco, but to our eyes the Scorpion (rendering) has got the foreign abstract right nailed. But when crapper you intend one? According to Ronn, the automobile module be discover this fall. And when you poverty to intend it soured the lot, the 2,100-pound Scorpion module supposedly verify you to 60 in no more than 3.5 seconds. Ronn module belike modify intercommunicate in a flooded cell of gas… and water. You’ll requirement to wage the take-home money: $150,000. Click the unification to intend the flooded story, and analyse discover the room of hi-res images below.

Gallery: Ronn Motors Scorpion

[Source: Ronn Motors]

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