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Merc has started on road tests of the electric SLS supercar and is still on target for a 2013 launch AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg has told Autocar.

Mornhinweg also revealed that AMG engineers are still confident that the electric SLS will meet all of it's performance objectives: a 0-60mph time of 4.0 seconds with a battery range of around 110 miles.

"We are on target to meet all of our objectives but we obviously have lots of time to fine tune," he said.

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 Not looking good so far in tech, the power to weight is way off. Being exciting is not enough, it has to be better performing than the petrol. But as they say they still have plenty of time. In 3 years the batteries could be a lot lighter, they need to be.