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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15. It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Felix and I might differ on that -- Felix and I were talking the other day -- but we dont expect the battery and the battery maintenance to be part of the ownership cost of your car. But most importantly, he insisted, "We need to give you all the batteries that you would expect to get in a car, thats 100,000 or 150,000 miles.

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