From their website: >By reducing the maximum speed and acceleration of Urbee compared to what many other cars are capable of, we can dramatically reduce the maximum horsepower required to power our car. The smaller motor/engine size in turn decreases the weight of the vehicle and increases the range.

I think this is great, cars are grossly overpowered and under-optimized for their most common use. I drive a 4500lb V6 truck with a ScanGauge, and cruising along only takes 50hp. Without any figures to back up their eco-marketing, though, I'm a bit worried. There are some slow accelerating cars on the market already. Making an even slower car gets into the territory of "dangerous".

I know they might not be able to release numbers yet, but "our car is slow and doesn't have a lot of power" isn't going to help their marketing if they don't do some explaining besides "power = energy".