Rinspeed's sQuba Electric Car: No Mr. Bond, I Want You to Dive – Don’t Miss the Video

Today’s San Jose Mercury News carried a story on the Rinspeed sQuba, an electric car that also serves as a boat and a submarine, like James Bond’s Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me. (One big difference between my blog and the Mercury News. I can bring you the video, see below). Rinspeed, a Swiss company, specializes in building far-out concept cars. It based the sQuba on the Lotus Elise, which is not only kin to Bond’s Esprit but also to the Tesla Motors’ electric Roadster. The sQuba can travel at 77 mph on land, 3 mph on water, and 1.8 mph underwater. The car is an open-air car, so when you’re under the water you’re breathing from a tube ala scuba. In that way, the sQuba’s more like the undersea carriers used by the bad guys in Thunderball than Bond’s submarine Esprit.