The Mira EV destroyed its own record for a car that traveled the farthest without a charge by traveling over 623 miles on a single charge last weekend.
The entire car is powered with 8,320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries (laptop batteries by Sanyo), but had to drive rather slow to achieve this feat.  It went a mere 30 miles an hour for most of the ride.
This speaks volumes for the potential of EVs in the future.  A future free form fossil fuels and super cheap electric cars…
yes, please…

Uncle Sam just loaned Nissan $1.4 billion to retool a factory in Smyrna, Tennessee to start building its new all electric car, the Leaf.  This little puppy is supposed to get 100 miles a charge and cost under $30,000.
Over the course of the next few years I think we will have a small revolution in the auto industry where these cars are going to become the norm.  Light, cheap, efficient automobiles that lessen our dependency on oil.  It makes we wonder about the Volt, though.  It seems that its “spec” …