North Carolina is joining the national effort to develop an electric car battery that can travel more than 100 miles before being recharged.State planning a plug-in car hub
Research center to work on battery
The state, N.C. State University and North Carolina's two largest electric utilities will join to create a plug-in car research hub on Centennial Campus in Raleigh, Gov. Mike Easley said Tuesday.
"The future is going to be to replace the gasoline engine," Easley said in announcing the plan on the closing day of the university's Emerging Issues Forum, this year devoted to energy.
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Easley and utility officials said they hope to develop a prototype within five years that can go 40 miles between recharges. That distance would be sufficient for most daily commutes, allowing drivers to recharge their cars at work. Researchers would seek to improve the design until they broke the 100-mile mark.
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Maybe the folks at the Centennial Campus will take a field trip to Boone?
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P.S. We'll keep showing Who Killed The Electric Car--it's our second most-popular film, right behind The Future of Food.
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one basic priority in the alternate fuel battle should be to preserve people's freedom of choice... take away people's ability to move and think and innovate freely and you weaken the country in general. it would seem that Big Oil is not very concerned about playing fairly in this way.
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