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Electric cars actually predate gasoline engines by about 70 years.  (For a full history of electric cars, please check out Wikipedia.)  100 years ago, however, there were several marketable brands of electric cars, and they worked pretty well.  Over the years, though, gasoline proved to be less expensive, and filling up took significantly less time than charging batteries.  In addition, batteries wore out over time.

In recent times, General Motors released the EV1, which while cool and efficient, wasn’t cost effective.

Now, Tesla, an electric car company based out of good ol’ California, is releasing two bad-ass cars.  The Tesla, based on the sporty Lotus Elise, and the Tesla S, an electric sedan.  The Sedan is to be $50,000, and pure bad-assness.  I look forward to it.  I don’t fit in the Tesla.  But it’s also bad ass.

I’m hoping these cars pioneer a new path towards cost effective, fun electric cars that will reduce our dependance on all fossil fuels.

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