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Genovation Electric Car

If an electric car appeals to you, but you are not the type of person who wants to shell out over $30,000 for one, you may be in luck.

Genovation, a new company in Rockville, MD has a novel idea: take a popular, practical car m and modify it to be purely electric. In the interest of cost, used cars would be utilized for the modifications.

The idea has some interesting strong points. The car body is something that isn't really weird or really small. In this case, it's based on the Ford Focus. Maintenance and body parts are readily available, and shouldn't be expensive.

And while the "Cash for Clunkers" program took polluting, gas burning, vehicles off the road and had them crushed, Genovation's idea would take polluting, gas burning, vehicles off the road, and get use out of them, replacing them with non-polluting electric cars. That's a pretty good idea.

Genovation says there first model will operate at a cost of four cents per mile. And the target price for the vehicle is under $25,000. This puts it within reach of a lot of families that are unwilling or unable to spend the expected $40,000 for the upcoming electric Chevy Volt. So there is potentially a pretty big market for a car like the Genovation.

The company has some other exciting ideas up there sleeves. You can learn more at Genovationcars.com.