Electric Porsche may be offered in 2009

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.

money.ninemsn.com.au 12 Oct 2008

The majority of people DO NOT fall into the category of environmentally conscious rich.

What should be investigated should be the contents of the film WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?.