That’s right. DeLorean Motor Company announced an all-new, all-electric DeLorean. It debuted last week, and the want it in production by 2013.

I did the math so you don’t have to. Given typical electrical efficiences of present-day electric cars, 1.21 gigawatt (hours) would power a car for about 7.5 million miles.

Lightning-powered cars. Tell your friends.

(Bonus question: how large would the flux capacitor have to be to power a car at 12 volts for a 30 mile round trip?)