Eco Car

Who's dumb enough to buy ICE cars?

So who else is working on Electric Cars?
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Would you believe China? They have to work on EVs. There won't be enough oil to support China's future economic growth.
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I drive an old Electric Vehicle. I also have friends with Electric Vehicles. Some of them have recently been able to buy some amazing, cutting-edge EV batteries from China - example:
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http://www.everspring.net/product-battery.htm

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These batteries are better, and cheaper than the ones in those $100,000+ sportscars above. If you look at the chart, you'll see they are as cheap as lead-acid batteries, and they hold up for 1100 charges, twice as many charges as the other LI-Ion batteries on the chart.
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Now, look at this car:
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http://www.milesautomotive.com/products_xs200.html

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It's a Chinese Electric Car, which will be imported into the USA next year. The driving range is almost as good as those sports cars above. But it only costs $28500. And that price could get a lot cheaper.

To clarify, the sportscars referred to above are the Tesla http://www.teslamotors.com , and the T-Zero http://www.acpropulsion.com/ACP_FAQs/FAQ_cars.htm

Interesting thing about those Thunder Sky batteries, a 200-mile range pack, good for 1100 charges, would last for the life of the car - 220,000 miles. (200 x 1100 = 220000)

What a shame that we are letting the Chinese do battery research instead of ourselves.

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