{"id":618,"date":"2011-05-04T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T00:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2015-02-23T08:32:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:32:21","slug":"li-ion-wave-ii-bye-bye-to-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/electric-cars\/li-ion-wave-ii-bye-bye-to-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Ion Wave II Bye Bye to Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Li-IonThe winner of the $10 million Progressive Automotive X-Prize was the Li Ion Wave II electric car. The whole idea behind the Automotive X-Prize was to encourage green car builders to come up with a vehicle that uses less fuel, is something that is easy to commercialize and that people would actually want to buy.<\/p>\n

A lot of high-mileage cars such as from the Shell Eco-marathon are very high mileage getting in the hundreds to thousands of miles per gallon. Are they street legal? No. Would a high number of consumers want to buy them. Again, no.<\/p>\n

Now, the Li-Ion Wave II looks to me like a cross between one of these eco-marathon cars (and why a Big Oil company like Shell would run this has me befuddled \u2013 yes, I like saying the word \u201cbefuddled\u201d) and a standard consumer vehicle.<\/p>\n

The point however is that Li-Ion is now taking orders for the Wave II. This odd-looking little beast reminiscent of the GM EV-1 or Honda Insight or even the Prius when it first came out, is all electric, can get up to 90 mph and has a range of about 150 miles (the SE model gets 200 miles).<\/p>\n

The charge time is about 6 hours on the Li Ion Wave II and one not so pleasing feature is that this EV will accept about 2,500 full charges which could get you only about 7 or 8 years if you\u2019re a frequent driver. The price starts at around $39,000 which a couple of years ago I would have said is outstanding.<\/p>\n

But, now that the Nissan Leaf has made it to the scene at a cheaper price the maker of the Wave II will have shave its costs to be competitive in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winner of the $10 million Progressive Automotive X-Prize was the Li Ion Wave II electric car. The whole idea behind the Automotive X-Prize was to encourage green car builders to come up with a vehicle that uses less fuel, is something that is easy to commercialize and that people would actually want to buy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-cars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t