1985 Hope Whisper II

The Hope Whisper II, developed in 1985 in collaboration with Berlin University, was a follow-up to the original 1983 Hope Whisper electric car prototype. The first Whisper had been built in Denmark as an early attempt at a practical electric city car, featuring a 10 kW motor, six 6-volt batteries, a top speed of 60 km/h, and a range of about 100 km. Despite showing promise, one of the fibreglass-bodied prototypes was crashed during its launch, and the project stalled soon after.

Two years later, the Whisper II was introduced with improvements, though specific technical upgrades were not widely documented. The car maintained its overall compact dimensions, notably a length of 3,500 mm, which placed it outside typical microcar or supermini classifications. However, despite renewed development efforts, the Whisper II also failed to reach production due to lack of funding, marking the quiet end of the Hope project. It appeared in the 2017 Movie, Dan Dream.