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...Easy Being Green I read your recent article about General Motors' Chevrolet Volt with disbelief [Sept. 29]. There was no acknowledgment that four companies - Aptera, Miles Electric Vehicles, Tesla and Think - plan on bringing fully electric vehicles to the U.S. marketplace before GM does. Alexander Fox, CHARLESTON...
...Easy Being Green I read your recent article about General Motors' Chevrolet Volt with disbelief [Sept. 29]. There was no acknowledgment that four companies - Aptera, Miles Electric Vehicles, Tesla and Think - plan on bringing fully electric vehicles to the U.S. marketplace before GM does. In the future, perhaps you could research a little deeper! Alexander Fox, Charleston, South Carolina...
...read your recent article about General Motors' Chevrolet Volt with disbelief [Sept. 29]. There was no acknowledgment that four companies--Aptera, Miles Electric Vehicles, Tesla and Think--plan on bringing fully electric vehicles to the U.S. marketplace before GM does. In the future, perhaps you could research a little deeper! Alexander Fox, CHARLESTON...
...makers, who in turn ship the components to an installer near you. At least for now, an after-market conversion is the only option if you really want to rev up your fuel economy - short of ditching your car altogether and plunking down $109,000 for the all-electric Tesla Roadster or settling for Zap's barely street-legal three-wheeler. "I wanted something real today," says Cox, 50, who works as a database administrator...
...Beneath their fine, carbon-fiber exteriors, the two cars employ different methods of sucking power and speed out of batteries. Tesla's Energy Storage System utilizes several thousand lithium-ion cells, which, due to their high energy density, exceptional energy-to-weight ratio and capacity for hundreds of charge and discharge cycles, are increasingly one of the most popular types of battery. The Lightning, on the other hand, has benefited from the wonders of nanotechnology. Its 30 batteries are made of lithium-titanate nanoparticles, a development from the conventional lithium-ion cell; they boast a range of over 185 miles...