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http://www.local6.com/news/8988315/detail.html
Lithium-Battery Cars May Deliver 300 Miles Per Charge
POSTED: 1:28 pm EDT 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 said
Hybrid 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.
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Nice. Definitely a move in the right direction.
I winder what size the battery(s) will be. Could I carry fully charged spares and are they hot swappable? 5 hours is too much down time when on vacation with your vehicle. What if I drove to Bonnaroo? I have to leave my car at a battery station, hitch the rest of the way in? Just some random thoughts.