Chevy Copo Electric Camaro

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Chevy copo electric camaro.

Chevy has created a vehicle that would hurt dominic toretto more than a treacherous family member. One of the coolest things to emerge from sema last year was chevy s ecopo camaro an all electric 700 plus hp dragster that promises silent nine second quarter miles. The chevy ecopo camaro electric drag car wowed us at sema with its 700 horsepower electric motors and its claim of being capable of nine second quarter mile times. Just 69 of the vehicles are assembled each year commemorating that first run.

To give it a dash of 21st century tech chevy went and built an electric copo. Chevy will continue developing and testing the ecopo camaro with hancock and lane after showing the electric drag car alongside the 50th anniversary copo camaro at the 2018 sema show this week. Because prospective buyers far outnumber the copos to be built chevrolet uses a lottery system to choose who will become a lucky owner. Aptly called the ecopo camaro it s based.

Fifty years after the original copo camaro special order performance models were introduced chevrolet s ecopo camaro concept demonstrates an electrified vis. Copo camaro production stopped after the initial year but chevrolet reopened the door with the fifth generation camaro in 2012 and has continued the program since then. Two years ago chevrolet used sema to reveal the latest copo camaro a factory built drag racer packing a supercharged lsx based 350 engine good for 580 hp. The chevrolet copo camaro is a straight from the dealer drag racer capable of pulling some crazy times on the strip.

Chevrolet has introduced a new concept car designed for drag racing and it s not an entirely new model. Weirdly though we didn t see. But the gas powered copo camaro runs around 100 000.