Top Three Electric Cars

2. Chevy Volt

The Car is set for production in 2010, the Volt (0 to 60 in 8.5 seconds) will be a four-seat sedan that General Motors hopes to roll out for less than $30,000. It’ll run for 40 miles exclusively on battery power, and then a small 1-liter gasoline-powered motor kicks in to charge those batteries. The car can be pluged in to be charged. GM is now working with various battery technologies, abandoning the old-fashioned nickel-metal-hydride batteries of the past for the current favorite, a T-shaped assembly made with stacked wafers of manganese oxide. Inside will be i pod-like tech, including a touchscreen for your entertainment, navigation and control of the car’s charging.

3. Toyota Plug-in Hybrid

Toyota is planning a follow-up to its popular Prius — this one a plug-in hybrid whose name hasn’t been announced yet. The picture above is not the final design, but this concept, called the Toyota Hybrid-X, could be close to what we’ll see by the time the car takes to the road by 2010. Similar to those batteries in laptop computers using longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries , the car will probably be able to beat the current experimental plug-in Prius’s 62 miles traveled without any help from its on board gasoline engine.

4. Aptera Typ-1
It’s an Aptera Typ-1 Plug-in hybrid, packing battery power and a tiny diesel engine that together have a range of 600 miles. It is said by the company that the first version of its car will be delivered this year, and will be an all-electric car with a 120-mile range. For a $500 deposit, you can get your name on the list, too, but you’ll need to live in Southern California if you want to be a proud owner.