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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The company claims you can even get 50 miles per gallon, but full development is still underway. Editor-in-Chief Michael Kanellos cranked it up to around 15 miles an hour. Greentech Media Advertisement Fifty miles per gallon. Most buses get about three to five miles a gallon. For a car, it sounds impressive.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Safe, reliable and sturdy battery systems currently exist that provide well over 100 miles on a single charge and technology advances will soon provide comfortable ranges in excess of 250 miles between charges. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.