Getting an electric car soon.

[soda72]

Some other interesting electric cars...

Phoenix Motors has an SUV and SUT that is a pure electric available for fleet purchases.  Both vehicles use a battery from Altair Nanotechnologies, that is capable of being charged in 10 mins.   However for the 10 minute charge it requires Off-Board High-Power 250KW Charger which is not likely going to be something you can setup at your house.  They also come with an On-Board Vehicle 6.6KW Charger which can take 5 to 6 hours which would allow them to be charged from home. 

http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com/vehicles/phoenix-sut.php

Then there is the Fisker Karma extended range vehicle(EREV) that is using the same design concept of the gm-volt.  I also believe fisker is using batteries made from Altair Nanotechnologies.  However the 80,000 price tag will keep it away from most of us peasants..

http://gm-volt.com/2008/11/21/gm-to-supply-engines-for-the-fisker-karma-erev/

[Stang]

Hippie!

 

[drdeathx]

LOL Challenge. The natural gas story is old news. Every manufacturer has natural gas engines ready. Detroit is so tied in with Washington it is pathetic.

UPS began deploying alternative fuel vehicles in the 1930s with a fleet of electric trucks that operated in New York City. The company's "green fleet" has traveled 143 million miles since 2000.


ATLANTA, Dec. 17, 2002 – Today UPS (NYSE: UPS) will introduce the package delivery industry's first alternative fuel Class 8 tractors. Ten Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tractors will officially begin operating in the company’s West Coast fleet each day traveling from California to Nevada.

Waste Management (WMI) operates a fleet of nearly 500 gas-powered trash trucks, and UPS (UPS) just announced a new order for 300 new CNG vehicles. Pickens’ CLNE fuel will fill the tanks of many of these vehicles. Pickens is also invested heavily in Westport Innovations (WPIVF.PK), a Vancouver company that makes “proprietary solutions” allowing engines to operate on clean-burning fuels such as CLNE’s compressed natural gas [CNG] and liquefied natural gas [LNG], as well as hydrogen and biofuels such as landfill gas.