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Electric Everything — Wide Variety Of Electric Vehicles On The Market Today

CleanTechnica EVs

There you have it: By land, by sea and in the air. From tiny one wheel skate boards to giant ferry boats and all kinds of aircraft and everything in between, everything is going electric.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The MiEV runs on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in seven or so hours on a 240-volt line. They are either glorified golf cart city cars like this one or they are only for the very wealthy like the Tesla. There is significant cause vs. effect debate on CO2. Electric cars a still a joke. We have oil!

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

There are companies that are reinventing the lead-acid battery to make it more competitive with lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride in terms of storage capacity versus weight, durability, and cold weather performance. In the U.S. Firefly Energy is the most prominent of these companies.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golf cart. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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