Carbon Motors E-7 super cop car heads to bankruptcy auction

Five years ago, an Indiana firm named Carbon Motors began touting a plan to manufacture a purpose-built police car with every 21st-century technology available. Called the E-7, Carbon Motors execs crossed the country in a bid to win investors and a $310 million federal loan, signing deals to buy up to 240,000 BMW turbodiesel engines and employ up to 1,500 people.

Today, Carbon Motors exists only as a bankruptcy court case, and last week a judge approved a plan to auction its only asset of value — the sole E-7 prototype car the company managed to build before it collapsed.