The next electric car
These five next-generation green vehicles, designed with the latest in high technology and due out within the next few years, will be faster, more powerful - and cheaper. Excerpted from The Plot to Save the Planet.
Wrightspeed X1 Prototype
Wrightspeed's X1 Prototype, clocked as the world's fastest electric car, accelerates from zero to 60 in three seconds, with a top speed of 112 miles per hour.
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The Silicon Valley company is working on a production version that under normal driving conditions can go for more than 100 miles on a roughly four-hour charge, a range the company hopes to increase once a version of the vehicle hits the market in 2010.
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