Elektron Quasar: 2,400 Horses, €2.2 Million, and Absolutely No Proof It Will Ever Exist

Hypercars represent the pinnacle of automotive excess—obscenely fast, astronomically expensive, and more often than not, serving no real purpose beyond gathering dust in climate-controlled garages and making occasional guest appearances on Instagram. And now, onto the stage enters another ambitious newcomer, whose marketing material contains more renders than reality: welcome to the Elektron Quasar.

This 2,400-horsepower, four-motor, Koenigsegg Jesko-inspired electric rocket is supposedly going to take the world by storm, leaving the Nürburgring record books in tatters and sending the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo into early retirement. Or at least, that's the fantasy. In reality, Elektron Motors has produced exactly zero working vehicles, but that hasn’t stopped them from throwing out some truly ludicrous numbers—like a 1.65-second 0-100 km/h time. Because, of course, an unknown company built on Photoshop and optimism is going to achieve what neither Rimac nor Bugatti have managed.

But wait, there's more! The Quasar will also feature a "hybrid" 64.7 kWh battery, which apparently means… what, exactly? No one really knows. The press release mumbles something about supercapacitors, but anyone with even a passing knowledge of physics will recognize this for what it is: marketing fluff at its absolute finest. It’s the automotive equivalent of promising a perpetual motion machine—technically possible if you ignore reality altogether.

And let’s not get bogged down in details—Elektron Motors has already begun assembling a dealer network, with plans to sell these €2.2 million machines in the U.S., Canada, the Middle East, and North Africa. Is there an actual production facility? Are there working prototypes? Has anyone ever seen one of their cars move under its own power? The answer to all of these questions is a resounding no.

The Quasar is set to debut by the end of 2025. Will it actually happen? Well, if I had to bet on this car’s production or a Ponzi scheme, I’d go with the Ponzi scheme—at least those tend to work for a little while.

So, will the Elektron Quasar be a true hypercar, or is it just another overhyped vaporware project destined to join the likes of Devel Sixteen and Spyros Chaos on the long list of legendary failures? We shall see. But if, somehow, a 450 km/h, 2,400-horsepower Quasar actually rolls out of Frankfurt in 2025, well, that would be utterly spectacular.