Preceded and followed by a 104 day period of recharging. ;')Batteries IncludedThe secret to the project is lithium ion, the same technology supplying juice to most laptop computers... The Stanford car will stow 10,000 lithium-ion batteries under the hood... Wired together, the lithium-ion cells -- each roughly the size of an AA battery -- will store enough energy to power an average home for four days, says Straubel... [T]he pack could propel its car at an average 45 mph for 2,000 miles, smashing all previous EV records. The team hopes to have the car ready for road tests by July.
by Michael Stroh
Popular Science
June 2004