AC Cars reveals new battery-powered Ace Classic Electric at SEMA—an EV take on its classic roadster ... that underpinned the original Shelby Cobra; Carroll Shelby was just the Texan with the ...

having been turned from the AC Ace into the Cobra in 1962. It’s not cheap, the new Cobra EV, with a list price of £138,000 before licensing costs, so call it not much change out of £150k all-up.

the British EV has a hand-laid carbon fiber body and a hand-finished interior. It’s very similar to the original AC Ace that provided the base for the brawny Shelby Cobra but without the ...