Hybrids Are The New Gas Guzzelers

The hilarious star buggerers at Defamer posted something a few days ago that, as good little media consumers, we should have seen and recognized immediately This item ended up taking it's sweet time in getting onto Seatttlest's radar, though.. Defamer posted an image of George Clooney's new fully electric ride. No Clooney in the photograph, unfortunately. Sorry ladies. Environmentally friendly auto enthusiats rejoice, though. What you are looking at is a camera phone snap of the Tango, designed and built by Commuter Cars of Spokane, Washington.

At a recent technology gathering in Seattle we were able to spend a little time with some of the people behind these electric cars and they weren't shy about telling us how Clooney was set to get the first one off the line. They go 0 to 60 in a ridiculously small amount of time, have space for a passenger and contain 1,800 car batteries. Maybe not 1,800. Maybe like twenty. We got to pet the Tango and sit in the driver's seat and make race car noises for a few minutes and then when we heard the price tag we backed slowly away from it, carefull not to damage it with the vibrations from our footsteps. Later in the evening someone crashed the thing, as seen here.