An all electric Think auto

[madokie]

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4200

Thinking Electric
April 28, 2008
Reporting by Roddy Scheer


The Think City all-electric car is 95 percent recyclable.
© www.think.no
Make way for a new entrant in the greenest car on the road contest. The retooled Norwegian carmaker Think is partnering with two of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms—Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and RockPort Capital Partners—to put consumers behind the wheel of an all-electric car. The car would go 110 miles without a charge and cost less than $25,000 brand new by the end of 2009. Dubbed Think City, the two-seater revs up to about 65 miles per hour max, runs on sodium batteries and is 95 percent recyclable, according to Think.

Ray Lane, a Kleiner Perkins partner and also the Chairman of the new joint venture, says the Think City is designed as a “mass market” vehicle. “Our desire is to be selling 30- to 40- to 50,000 of these cars in a couple of years,” he told reporters.

“The transportation industry is undergoing its largest transformation since Henry Ford built the Model T,” he said. “Today we are witnessing a seminal event: the first highway-capable electric vehicle intended for mass production, representing a big step toward a zero emission transportation industry.”

Company executives told reporters that test vehicles will be brought to the U.S. in coming months, but that eventually the cars would be manufactured in Southern California at a new Think North America plant. Ford Motor Company owned Think for five years, leasing the company’s “smart cars” in the U.S. to a limited degree before selling the company to private investors in 2004. None of the major automakers are currently offering all-electric vehicles, although Nissan and Mitsubishi have announced plans to make them in the future.

[rurallib]

1. Saw a thread here yesterday that the Tesla is about ready to go

And they plan on having a sedan type car ready for 2010.

[Sal Minella]

2. Who manufactured the lovely electric vehicles featured in the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

[Sal Minella]

3. Found in the Tubes: General Motors created and assassinated the EV1 in the movie.

[madokie]

4. I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here.

not sure, Hell, I have no clue what it is.

[Sal Minella]

5. Sorry. Off-topic from "Think" car

This line:
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None of the major automakers are currently offering all-electric vehicles....
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had me trying to remember who made (and recalled and shredded) the much-loved little electric car in the film "Who Killed the Electric Car." I looked it up and it was GM. Sorry to cause confusion.

[madokie]

6. No problem,

I've watched the film twice and will prolly do so again. As my favorite saying regarding makes of autos is, I'd rather have a picture of a Ford as the keys to a chevrolet. ;-) so from that one can assume I'm a ford man all the way. :hi: fellow Hippie, I notice there are a lot of us around these here parts.

[diane in sf]

7. Looks like the Think Ox would be a good replacement for my Rav4