When you do searches by hand, you have to spend the time wading through a lot of items. Some are not about EVs (now that there are EV ads on the sides of newswires, that causes them to come up on searches too, etc.).
Once of these http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/07/28/three-wheeled-vehicle-tackles-fuel-efficiency-on-the-cheap/ Three-wheeled vehicle tackles fuel-efficiency on the cheap July 28, 2013 Is a 3-wheel ice that will directly compete with the Sparrow II EV http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-80k-crowdfunding-for-Sparrow-II-R-D-tp4664321.html Raht Racer EV http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Wally-Hotvedt-of-Let-s-Bowl-selling-Raht-Racer-EVs-ts-60-mph-tp4664320.html or any other 3-wheeled or low cost EV solution. Its low price $6.8k is likely after it is in production. But even if the first models are $10+k that is a cheap vehicle. It seats two in tandem. Its top speed is 106mph, 0-60mph in 9+ seconds, and it gets ~84hwy/49city mpg is nothing to sneeze at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Motors They are well funded as explained in the following [video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBq62lRegOA CNBC Interview "Street Signs" 1/10/13 Elio Motors Feb 8, 2013 CNBC "Street Signs" interview with Paul Elio ] The videos on http://www.eliomotors.com/videos/ show that they have a slick ad campaign going on to gain pre-orders/investments. Production in the former GM plant in Mississippi plant should make these cheap 3-wheel ice available to the public in 2015. Now if they sold an EV model that would be cool. But until then, these guys are going to be some serious future competition to EV-sales: low price, high mpg, high top-speed, cool-looks, ... Corrections/comments welcome :-) {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EV-competition-low-price-high-mpg-tp4664459.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
