The History of the Electric Car
Since the advent of the automobile, car makers have struggled to build mainstream electric vehicles. Here are their best and worst attempts
Gas beat battery power decades ago in part because petrol-fueled cars could deliver significantly more zoom for the boom. But Ian Wright is changing that. The New Zealand native and Silicon Valley mainstay designed and built the modestly named Wrightspeed himself. It looks like a Formula 1 racecar and is faster than a Ferrari, but it runs on an electric battery. The impressive X1, which has yet to move into production, has a range of 100 miles per charge — a distance that it would cover at top speed in less than 40 minutes. You can burn rubber without burning the Earth.
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