Sadly, It’s True. The Electric Trabant Is Real.

September 16th, 2009 admin

That horrid rumor we heard in August is hideously true — there is a new Trabant on the way, it is an electric car and it could be on the road by 2012 if the company finds some investors willing to front the cash. The Trabant nT trundled into the Frankfurt auto show in what was surely the first time anyone’s seen a Trabi that wasn’t clattering and spewing smoke.


Originally posted on Wired

 
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