There is a new fully electric sports car created by a company in Silicon Valley. Here’s a story. I’m not a huge fan of electric-only vehicles because the batteries have not been good enough up to this point to make them viable. However, high capacity Lithium Ion batteries are starting to find use in the automotive sector. We actually tried to get one for the car we built. I could see electric only vehicles finding a place in the auto market, especially as a commuter vehicle. Having an insanely quick sports car that was all electric like this one would just be awesome.
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July 2, 2006
sounds pretty interesting, but lithium ion batteries (at least in my experience) tend to lose a lot of their life pretty quickly, especially when they get hot. maybe the lithium ion polymer is different, though i don’t know and for that matter i’m not even sure that’s what they’d be using.
a car like that certainly sounds promising, though. not worrying about mpg would be nice.