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against gasoline. Zap and Tesla Motors are both licensing their battery technology[6][7]. A fringe player EEstor[6] is said to be working on a high density energy storage device. If this device is ever produced successfully it will be a world changing technology. One of the things that killed off the electric car nearly 80 years ago[11] was the poor battery technology. With advances in technology we may be able to replace the high energy density fuels gasoline, diesel, and ethanol with batteries or super capacitors that store an equivalent amount of energy.

With the advances in technology we've seen in the last few years it seems not only inevitable but desirable that we move our transportation to electric vehicles. The next car you own may be electric. With cars like the Tesla erasing images of slow clunky electric cars the public's opinion of electric cars will change swiftly.

1 Tesla Motors - http://www.teslamotors.com/ind ex.php
2 Zap electric cars - http://www.zapworld.com/
3 Enertia Bike - http://www.enertiabike.com/com ponent/option,com_contentform/ Itemid,28/
4 Electric Motor sport - http://www.electricmotorsport. com/EGPR/egprPage.htm
5 Peak Oil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P eak_oil
6 EEstor - http://www.treehugger.com/file s/2006/03/eestor_capacito_1.ph p
7 Zap batteries - http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/07 0802/clth056.html?.v=99
8 Tesla batteries - http://www.engadget.com/2006/1 2/01/tesla-motors-looking-to-l icense-roadsters-battery-techn ology/
9 High efficiency solar cells 42.8% University of Delaware-led team - http://www.renewableenergyacce ss.com/rea/news/story?id=49483
10 Electric vehicles stabilize power grids - http://www.udel.edu/V2G/
11. History of the electric car - http://inventors.about.com/lib rary/weekly/aacarselectrica.ht m

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