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I thought this was a cool car. Here is the info about it:
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No engine, just a motor and big lithium-ion batteries, thus ZEO for Zero Emissions Operation. This plug-in electric car is purported to go the distance for the sporty commuter—a claimed 250 miles. It has a semi-practical 4-door wagon shape, yet a sportingly low roofline of 50.8 in., not to mention aggressively oversized 23-in. wheels. Due to its sporting nature, seating is limited to four.
Where the Honda Insight failed to satisfy performance-yet-green-minded drivers, the ZEO could. Combining a rear-drive platform with a 64-kilowatt-hour, lithium-ion battery pack and a 200-kilowatt (268-horsepower) electric motor—and a claimed 0-60-mph time of under 6 seconds—the ZEO could be just what the electric car needed.
Bill Zheng, Dodge ZEO principal exterior designer, says, “The Dodge ZEO concept is designed to break the paradigm of what an electric car should look like.” Like many of the show cars here in Detroit, the ZEO uses exterior surface lighting—in this case, on the crosshair grille. Its shape is attractive, although the reality of owning a car with scissor doors and painted ZEO Orange might be a little much.
Its stark-white interior is much more pleasant. Typical of show cars, the interior is not about practicality. Some of the elements may make it to production, such as the blue LED accent lighting and lack of part lines on the dash.
Here is a picture with the doors closed:

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I wonder if there isn't a fallacy to the zero emission being touted here? Ya gotta plug the thing in to recharge it. Most of the electricity right now comes from coal fired powerplants. If one had a windmill or something like that to recharge it then it could truly be called zero emission.
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No doubt there is a fallacy to it and it might not even do what they claimed. Since it is a concept car they can say what ever they want, unless it becomes a reality they don't even have to make it work[crazy]. WH2
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It will never tow a boat!!!!!
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Your right but it sure would make the commute back and forth to work easier, you could do it in style too[].
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I will take one! This 90 mile round trip commute is killing me at 3 bucks a gallon!
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Sounds like my commute....Stansbury Park to Draper and back each day.

The one concern I have that is never talked about with these electric or hybrid cars is how long the bank of batteries will last before you need to replace them, how much it will cost to replace them, and how big the environmental impact is once those batteries wear out.

You buy a new car for $30k, if the batteries are gone after 5 years, and cost, say, $2k to replace...after depreciation is that car worth anything at that point?
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A report a while back by a univesity professor claimed if we burned our transportation fuel in a power plant and used it to power electric cars we would double the distance a gallon of gasoline gets us. Not to mention that the electric car may be more durable in the end anyway. Havnt seen any info on it lately. Must mean we cant have it till the oil companies say we can.
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Sounds like electric cars(EC) are more efficient than gas in that respect. What about what you told me a while back about the cost of those replacement batteries for the EC being so high, does than figure into the cost of running the EC?
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Looks like the litium ion battery is the one they are working with. It has the best storage to weight ratio. But is a quarky system. Even dangerous if improperly handled. I hope they will be cheap enough. As batteries age they lose capacity and generally have a limit of charge cycles. Most folks would be able to reasonably predict when they would need to replace their batteries. Most likely the cost will go down just like plasma tvs. As the technology develops it should be cheaper. But like i said we get what the oil companies say. They shredded the last electric car that would have been viable transportation.
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