2-Hour Charge Gets 150 Miles In Electric Car
University Of Delaware Graduate Students Create Electric Car
University Of Delaware Graduate Students Create Electric Car
http://www.nbc10.com/automotive/16762793/detail.htmlNEWARK, Del. -- Imagine driving 150 miles without ever using a drop of gas and your power company might even give you cash back, as well.
A graduate student at the University of Delaware created an electric car of the hopefully not-so-distant future. Slideshow: History Of Gas Prices From 1950 To 2008 You get in it like a normal car, you turn the key like a normal car, you put it into gear like a normal car and drive it like a normal car.
But what makes the $70,000 Scion so special is that there is no smoke-spewing tailpipe, no noise, and no need to ever stop at a gas station.
"This fully electric vehicle goes about 3 cents to a mile, when compared with a gas vehicle that might go between 10 and 12 cents a mile," Scott Baker, a University of Delaware graduate student, said.
The car is no a hybrid, it is all electric. It gets plugged into an outlet.