---
title: "Color Me Skeptical About Hennessey’s 6×6 Electric Hypercar Plans"
description: "Hm, where to start..."
date: "2021-11-30"
modified: "2021-11-30"
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  - name: "Hazel Southwell"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/43322/color-me-skeptical-about-hennesseys-6x6-electric-hypercar-plans"
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  - "Electric Vehicle"
---

# Color Me Skeptical About Hennessey’s 6×6 Electric Hypercar Plans

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2021/11/Hennessey-Auto-six-wheel-EV-supercar.jpg>)
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I know, just yesterday I was complaining that [concept cars are boring now](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/43301/here-are-nissans-new-concept-evs-rated-from-most-to-least-dystopian>) and today I'm going to tell you they're too silly. I'm just like that Meredith Brooks song: full of multitudes. Anyway, the thing we have to apply some healthy skepticism to today is Hennessey Performance's idea for a six-wheel electric supercar.

Called Project Deep Space because, I don't know—if you're a billionaire that's the [sort of thing you're into these days](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/41620/electric-rivian-r1s-recovers-jeff-bezos-from-the-blue-origin-pod>)—the "Hyper-GT" was teased on Hennessey's social media Tuesday with sketches that contain riveting little design details.

![message-editor%2F1638294665413-ffc6ao4vgbmo8sc.jpeg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1638294665413-ffc6ao4vgbmo8sc.jpeg>)
**Twitter: @hennesseyperf**

The seats are, as you can see above, arranged to avoid making conversation with your fellow passengers. The one at the rear, styled as a "VVIP seat," even reclines fully for reasons. It will be made with "ultra lux materials/tech," which is good because it will probably cost a ton if it ever gets built.

My favorite design notes, however, are on the side-view. They let you know this enormous, six-wheeled, six-motored limousine *will* have space in the frunk for four sets of carry-on luggage. Project Deep Space also boasts that four—yes, four—sets of golf clubs can fit in the trunk, making it roughly as useful as the most popular electric vehicle: a golf kart.

Thing is, being a creep about EVs is very much my thing. When I saw the Hennessey designs my mind went wandering about what it looked an awful lot like, down to the ugly-as-hell gullwing doors.

It's the KAZ Eliica, a car that was immensely lovingly designed and with huge ambitions by a team led by Hiroshi Shimizu at Japan's Keio University, way back in the early 2000s.

![message-editor%2F1638294820336-gettyimages-55969589.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1638294820336-gettyimages-55969589.jpg>)
**Getty**

I don't know for absolute certain that Hennessey copied Keio University's homework because there are a few differences. First is the fact the Eliica actually exists and was built to push electric performance at a time when very few people were. It achieved speeds over 230 miles per hour and Shimizu [dedicated 30 years of his life](<https://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/en/vanguard/003250.html>) to making it happen. And ok, the seat layout in Hennessey's sketches are different and they're short a couple of wheels. But it certainly does make you think.

The Eliica didn't say how many golf clubs it could fit, though, so I guess that was a huge oversight.

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## Author
Hazel is a writer specializing in electric vehicles and new fuel and powertrain technologies. She’s covered tech in motorsport since the inception of Formula E and has been a journalist for 17 years.

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