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The Joint Venture Company targets the Alias to retail at a price of $30,000 in a two-passenger vehicle with a top-speed of over 100 miles per hour and a range of at least 150 miles per charge. The goal is to bring an affordable, highway capable electric vehicle to market quickly to capitalize on surging interest for electric car technologies.
How good will it be in the snow? In the freeway during a snow storm there are tracks for the left and right wheels only.
Posted by: Curtis | January 24, 2008 at 02:51 PM
Three wheelers have generally been avoided because they aren't as stable as 4 wheelers - and you don't save - or gain - anything building them that way. It's all about styling. Having the same hardware in a stylish 4 wheeler would appeal to me more.
Posted by: Ken | January 24, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Three wheels has nothing to do with styling. They chose 3 wheels so it is treated as a motorcycle, not a passenger car. This avoids collison tests that passenger cars need.
Posted by: Larry | January 24, 2008 at 08:48 PM
No battery company yet has a battery or set of batteries to give you a 150 mile range.
Posted by: steve | January 25, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Funny you say that, ZAP concluded testing of some lithium batteries with a battery management system and its ZAP Xebra Truck went 152 miles on a single charge. See the link for more info.
Posted by: Alex Campbell | January 25, 2008 at 03:02 PM
There are so many "proposals and promises" and not enough REAL electric cars on our roads.
Posted by: Parts | November 17, 2008 at 05:09 AM
Pigs are friends of human beings
Posted by: air jordans | November 15, 2010 at 03:24 AM
Three wheels has nothing to do with styling. They chose 3 wheels so it is treated as a motorcycle, not a passenger car.
Posted by: frauen | July 25, 2011 at 05:24 AM
That's a cool picture! I Like the interesting body style of that.
Posted by: Car Lease Los Angeles | November 30, 2011 at 08:33 PM
Affordable, fast enough, and electric? I would probably buy one of these if they sold them in the US.
Posted by: Dentist West LA | December 05, 2011 at 04:33 PM
Is this going to be available in the US??
Posted by: backup camera | December 05, 2011 at 04:50 PM
Did this go into commercial production yet, it's been a few years since this was written.
Posted by: SEO Services | December 05, 2011 at 05:01 PM
Wow, 100 miles/per hour is good, would love one of these!
Posted by: Air Purifier | December 06, 2011 at 01:28 PM
The new President will have to embrace this exact plan if the United States is to avoid economic catastrophe.
Posted by: Office 2010 | January 08, 2012 at 09:13 PM