Electric cars always leave me speechless. As many, I like to think my car is pretty fast and its torque is enough for me… just lying myself. Some of us just can’t seem to have enough of it, and gasoline engines are just not on our taste.

What’s to do in this case? Buy a more expensive gasoline technology, a new car? You’ll be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on those and you’ll not get the 0 to 60 in three seconds… of course, you will, if you buy yourself a fast bike, or a Veyron, which is generally not the case.

This guy, John Wayland, aka “Plasma Boy”, converted a 1972 Datsun 1200 to run on batteries alone and beat the hell out of the world’s most expensive, gas-consuming racing cars. He named it the “White Zombie”.

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