Phoenix Motorcars EV driving highway speeds

www.Phoenixmotorcars.com
http://altairnano.com/markets_energy_systems.html

Phoenix Motorcars with the use of Altairnano's battery technology have developed an electric vehicle that can reach highway speeds and can travel 130 miles on one charge. What is so revolutionary about this electric vehicle, besides that it is a sport utility truck(SUT) and not a subcompact car, is that the lithium titanate battery technology allows for a 10-minute recharge (tested in front of California's Air Resources Board) and if that wasn't enough theres an estimated life span of 20+ years! This battery technology also does not experience thermal runaways like lithium ion. These three feartures dwarf the fact that the energy density of this battery is less than that of lithium ion batteries.

Most of the infrastructure is already in place to allow construction of 10-minute charging stations along roads. But there shouldn't be a need to build as many as there are of gas stations because most charging will be done at home or possibly at work. Plugged in along with your cell phone.

Phoenix is in production now! But only to fleets. Production for consumers in California is scheduled for late 2008. There will also be an SUV model available as well.

Foreign oil independence!

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[Truelight54]

If there's a good thing about the spiral of gasoline prices it's that it finally is making technology such as this attractive and competitive. I'm thinking however that unless one was to also have a second gas-powered vehicle, you'd be limited to in-city short trips if this were your only vehicle. We need to either - 1) have hybrids that can use traditional fuels if needed, or 2) find a way to develop batteries with more capacity for longer range, or 3) find a way to "rapid-charge" this.

[scifi353]

This vehicle can be charged in less then 10 minutes.

[world10101]

Any thing electric is always great.

[sexyboi142]

why didnt GM think of that chargeing method. GM is stupid for destroying the ev1s to make room for the volt which may or may not be a hoax. i believe it isnt.

[dragonamt]

@scifi353 yeah thats the big selling point of this, but a special charging station is required to do this so you can recharge in 10 minutes just anywhere... yet. The company had filed for bankruptcy at one point but restructured and has new backers, it has gone into 'stealth mode' to finish its suv/sut by late 2010 which could be a great sign, or just mean the company is really dead, we should find out pretty soon though. Keeping my fingers crossed!

[Neroin88]

The first driver is called Leif Pagrotsky! He is a very famous potitician in Sweden. He was a minister in the previous government.

[hummer426]

This company solves the two biggest problems with electric cars, low ranges and slow charging times.

Ten minutes is not nearly as long as the four hours most cars take, I realise this is with fast charge but with the proper infrastructure you could get anywhere without waiting hours to recharge.

I want to see these in Canada soon!

[Cartabaz]

EXCELLENT...finally a great car!!!

[derekhess47]

Invest in the company that makes the batteries these cars are going to use, Altair Nanotechnologies (type ALTI into Yahoo Finance)

[TungstenIHC]

actually the pollution made to manufacture a batteries would be even greater than the pollution from low emission vehicles but this thing kicks major ass because electric motors require next to no maintenance

i would definitely buy this truck

[MigueTK]

hey that e-mail and web thing sounds sick for when you're sitting in traffic in LA!

[JohnDeBunkTest]

Car of the future!