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While automakers, scientists and venture capitalists battle
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Nov 25, 2005, 13:57
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(NUI) -While automakers, scientists and venture capitalists battle over the future of transportation, the high technologies of aerospace, defense and computer science are already putting electric cars on the road.
And they're doing it in style. California-based U.S. Electricar recently created the devilish Electricar GTP, capable of 80-mph speeds and handling worthy of James Bond.
The company, which also builds other, more sedate sedans, industrial vehicles, pickup trucks and buses, expects to sell hundreds of vehicles this year - mostly in pollution-wary California.
U.S. Electricar says its vehicles' high efficiency, combined with no wasted idle, makes them 90 percent less polluting than their gas counterparts, even after counting emissions from electric power plants.
The GTP's 50,000-watt motor's battery pack is rechargeable in four to six hours.
Created in 1976, U.S. Electricar has snagged the lead in the potentially lucrative electric car market by selling converted Geo Prizms and Chevy S-10 pickups to federal researchers, electric utilities and other large-fleet buyers.
To find out more about electric vehicles, call 1-800-832-1986.
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