Watch A Crazy Tesla-Powered Kit Car Tear Down The Quarter-Mile

It’s been about four years since the Tesla Roadster went out of production, so what if you want bonkers electrical power in a sports car package now? Ottawa-based Eurodyne and Tapp Auto have one solution, which involves taking a Factory Five Racing 818 fibreglass kit car, and stuffing in a rear-wheel drive P85 drive unit hooked up to a pair of Chevrolet Volt battery packs.

It’s producing somewhere in the region of 400bhp, and at just over 1100kg it’s a damn sight lighter than a Tesla. It means the electric 818 is able to lay down a respectable 10 second quarter-mile, although Eurodyne reckons a nine second pass is possible.

Sources: Car Scoops and Electrek