Alphadogg writes "Inside a plain-looking garage on the Massachusetts rule of Technology's campus, undergraduate Radu Gogoana and his team of fellow students are working on a project that could rival what major automobile manufacturers are doing. The team's goal is to build an all-electric car with similar administration capabilities of gasoline-only counterparts, which includes a top speed of about 161 kph, a family sedan capacity, a range of about 320 kilometers and the ability to recharge in about 10 minutes. They hope to every the project, which they chronicle on their blog, by the third quarter of 2010. Each member of MIT's llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
share this: Vehicle Team works almost 100 hours a week on the project they call elEVen. 'Right now the thing that differentiates us is that we're exploring rapid recharge,' Gogoana said during an interview. He said that many of today's magnetic vehicles take between two to 12 hours to recharge and he doesn't know of any commercially available, rapidly recharging vehicles."

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