Lithium-Battery Cars May Deliver 300 Miles Per Charge
POSTED: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
UPDATED: 3:15 pm EDT April 25,
2006
A company may soon offer American motorists a new option to save on high gas prices -- vehicles powered by lithium batteries, according to a Local 6 News report.
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"The kind (of batteries) that power your cell phone may power your car in the future," Local 6's Jacquie Sosa reported.A full version of a lithium-powered vehicle will be sold by Hybrid Technologies.
"Just plug in these cars for about five hours or so and you'll get about 300 miles on a single charge," Sosa said.The cars can travel up to 100 mph, according to the report.The vehicles cost about $35,000 or about double what buyers would pay for a gas-powered model.Richard Griffiths is the driving force behind Hybrid Technologies' effort to make practical lithium-powered electric vehicles."We can take basically any vehicle and adapt it to fit, we basically can take any model and put a lithium motor, and so it really comes down to what the market is looking for," Griffiths saidHybrid Technologies is the only U.S. company that sells the lithium-powered cars, the Local 6 News report said.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
IMAGE: Photos From Story "The kind (of batteries) that power your cell phone may power your car in the future," Local 6's Jacquie Sosa reported.A full version of a lithium-powered vehicle will be sold by Hybrid Technologies.
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