Comments on: Finland Unveils RaceAbout All-Electric Supercar

By: 15 Ultra Efficient Vehicles Left in the Automotive X Prize Competition | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:31:40 +0000

[...] to watch out for in the next few months of competition include Finland’s RaceAbout, the X-Tracer, and Team Li-ion Motors. Follow the X-Prize updates through their facebook page, or [...]

By: telfred

telfred — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:14:15 +0000

Looks like a Volvo doesnt it?
and Hasn’t Tesla Roadster already done all this succesfully?
The problem i have with Electric powered cars is that they’re not really electric are they?
they’re actually battery powered and the problem is producing these batteries and the inevitable discarding of them at the end of the lifecycle.

By: manny

manny — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:23:09 +0000

Most manufacturers do not make electric cars because current battery technology means they make a range of only 100 miles. The “will it make it?” factor known as range anxiety puts off customers