Mitsubishi Motors will sell its imiev EV beginning in 2009. In 2007, Miles Electric Vehicles announced that it would produce a highway-speed all-electric sedan named the XS500. In early 2008, Dodge announced an electric concept car called Dodge Zeo. In May 2008 Nissan Motor Company announced plans to sell an electric car in the US and Japan by 2010. Other automakers like Fuji Heavy Industries are testing versions of electric cars, and General Motors and Toyota are working on battery-powered vehicles that have small gasoline engines for recharging.
Electric cars of the future.
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Electric motors are currently around 98% efficient, so 63.5% more efficient would be pretty minuscule. What really needs to be addressed is the torque drop off at high rpm.
The common electric motor design may be redundant soon.
Marko Rodin has put his electric coil design into the public domain if anyone’s interesting in building one. They are 63.5% more energy efficient than the current electric motor design.
Nicola Tesla was the father of wireless communication and he gave us the technology the send electricity not just signals though the air.
Type in the name Tesla and read about many contributions that he has given to this selfish country that did nothing but ruin him because of the lack of knowledge and lack of will to learn from him. Stupid Americans, I am American but looking back at all that happened in our past and knowing that we could be so much further along than what we are just angers me.
Tesla is first and better. Look at the year of production of the Roadster. Thomas Edison was a thief, he did not invent the light bulb nor did he invention AC.
I agree when my time comes and money permitting, i will buy electric cars, I cant afford gas cars, and eventually we are gonna run out of oil. What bothers me the most California had electric cars but lawsuit by big companies stopped them and destroy all of them. Now back to square one.
i guess you never driven a roadster. Do yourself a favor, find one, test drive it and I promise you will change your mind.
I doubt that you are a bigger gear head than me and I was skeptical about Tesla Roadster, but boy did I change my mind after driving one!
this time they will.
Big companies have been buying small companies that seem a threat for decades now and then disbanding the technology outright.
But this is the information age, with YouTube, DIGG, etc
If some company tried to destroy Tesla at this infant stage that would draw huge (and immediate) attention. News travel really fast now, meaning it’s much harder to hide things from consumers than 10-20 years ago.
I dont know where you get your math.
I’ve been to at least 4 conference talks discussing the issue of using coal plants as the sole electric supplier for EV vehicles, namely the Tesla. All key note speakers agreed that, in the worst possible scenario, you get a Roadster emitting as much as a Prius.
Plus another thing, it is much easier, from capital cost perspective, to reduce vast emissions in a coal plant (only one outlet) than 1000′s of gas powered cars (1000′s of outlets).
You can buy a solar panel to recharge your battery and not using the electricity produce by power plants….clean air all the way
Electric may be clean on your end, but to make that electricity, power plants are generating more co2 emissions. there is less emissions by you burning gas than the power companies making electricity…
so until we find better ways to generate that electricity were still in the same hole.
GO TESLA!!
Oil must go. Electric car is clean air. Think about it. More money in your pocket, spend on other things. California had it for few years but lawsuit by oil and car makers want them out. I hope they stay back and forever.
it fuken suks sk8Fallen is right cars r better loud & fast
this sucks i like my cars to be loud and fast not quite and slow
I’d like very much for my car to be low noise – I would find it futuristic – But I’d also like double glass windows- mabee with warm air circulation to defrost in the winter
Does it have double glass windows too
What a stupid f’ck (sorry about the language)…it’s 160 miles…NOT 40 MILES!!!!!!
LAME!
Yes, there’s absolutely no need for revving, rumbling, and roaring. Leave the noise making for the Luddites. Noise = wasted energy = wasted hp.
Would men buy as much sports cars, big trucks, Harleys, etc., if they were quiet? I don’t think so. That’s why there’s an aftermarket for exhaust parts.
It’s about damn time we started to phase out fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine…
Dodge:40 miles all electric……hahahahahaahahahahaahaahahahahhahaahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! Go Tesla, GOOOO!
all cars must be electric.
They goofed! The Dodge Circuit EV gets 160 miles per charge, not as much as the Tesla, but it will be less expensive.
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GM just opened a battery development wing in the tech center and A123 battery is building a plant in Michigan, people need to put past sins in the past and get behind US manufacturing and EV technology. People dont understand the oil money and political pressure that is put on the auto makers NOT to develop EV technology so we need to get a foot in the door in any way.