EVM score: 7Range: 100 mi
Speed: 95 mph, 0-60 10m sec.
Price: $40,000
Battery: Li-Titanate from Altair Nanotechnologies.
Safe: Likely
This is a pretty cool concept. Get a Korean slider car, add a UQM motor, throw in a battery that will last 250,000 miles, recharge in 10 minutes, and be perfectly safe. Then put it in a package that is useful for companies for fleet use. Performance, good. Range, good. The only problem is that all that costs somewhere around $80,000 per vehicle. Really, the awesome battery from Altair is most of that. So I heard that their business model depends on them selling carbon offsets to be financially viable. Sounds kind of risky to me. I'd rather start like Tesla and sell it for $100,000. In fact, why doesn't Tesla take the Altair battery? It's so much better. I'm gonna go have a talk with them right now.
News:
The UQM motor is dropped in favor of a more efficient one. The Altair battery pack turns out to be lighter and smaller than thought. 500 fleet orders are in and they are set to deliver in the first quarter 2008.
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Altair just shipped a 2MW power system to AES for $1 million. That's $.50/watt making it about $17,500.00 for a 35KW pack. Altair says it can ramp up to meet demand and by end 2008 near $.30/watt. Making the Phoenix battery pack about $10K. With a more efficient motor Phoenix might break 150 miles per Charge.
Looks like list for Phoenix SUT is $47,500. Got a new air cooled motor.
From my research Zaps EVs are better than Phoenix. But every EV that gets out there benefits us all. It's so simple, they just make less of a mess than gas cars.
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