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Aircraft Maker Will Produce Electric Cars in 2006

Posted by michael on Friday March 5, 2004 @08:05PM from the still-waiting-for-flying-electric-car dept.

clarkie.mg writes "French aircraft maker Dassault has announced that they will team up with Hydro-Quebec to produce an electric car, available as of 2006. Hydro-Quebec will provide the lithium-metal-polymer (LMP) battery and the wheel motor propulsion system. The car will be built in partnership with a car specialist and sold in association with a large automaker not yet found."

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Re:I hate how Electric Cars look. by pHatidic · 2004-03-05 20:09 · Score: 5, Informative

The hybrid honda civic looks exactly like a normal car, and one can even get it with a manual transmission. The toyota prius isn't that bad either. The reason the all electric cars are so ugly is that if you have to wait overnight for the battery to charge then your car sure as hell better be light and aerodynamic enough to make it enough miles to get through the day.