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The next step in electric cars?

by Angeline Booher Apr 26, 2006 2:30AM PDT

(From a transcript. Scroll down 3/4th of page to:

"Miles O'Brienb, CNN CORRESPONDENT")

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/26/lt.02.html

This is about a lithium battery-driven car. The pack is much smaller. The prototype is a 2 passenger one, but the developer says many cars can be retrofitted. There is also a car fitted with a lithium engine that can go faster than I care to drive.

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If you really have The Need For Speed ...

by Dragon Apr 26, 2006 11:05AM PDT

How about 200mph?

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Zero emmisions not

by null. Apr 26, 2006 12:22PM PDT

''It's the environmentalist mid-life crisis vehicle,'' says Richard Griffiths, head of business development at Hybrid. ''It's a sports car that performs like a Porsche Boxster, looks like a Ferrari, and has zero emissions.''

just elsewhere emmisions unless it's recharged by solar & manufacured using wind power.

Don Erickson
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I had an idea recently

by Dragon Apr 27, 2006 10:39AM PDT

If there were sponsored, competitive races organized, there might be more innovations.

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A hilarious typo earlier in the transcript:

by Paul C Apr 26, 2006 7:23PM PDT

Just a short time ago, President Bush announced conservative pungent Tony Snow is the new White House press secretary.

Tony Snow stinks? That'll be proper revenge on the White House press corps!