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The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, addressed the media at Tesla's San Carlos facility about new incentives for Tesla and other spawning electric car companies to continue production of vehicles in the state. With discussions of moving Tesla production to New Mexico, a CAEATFA program that was approved last Wednesday would exempt automakers from sales and use tax when purchasing the manufacturing equipment to build electric vehicles. This initiative can save automakers like Tesla millions of dollars when it comes time to build a new fabrication facility in California.

 
Although this 914 may look like any run-of-the-mill Porsche, it's in fact very unique. A group of MIT students banded together and modified a 1976 Porsche 914 to be completely electric, powered by 18 lithium-phosphate rechargeable batteries valued at $2030 each.

"Now we get to take data while we're driving. We can record everything that happens on a laptop, come back and change parameters, and test-drive it again," said mechanical engineering graduate student Craig Wildman. As of now, the students have only driven the car in parking lots.

The California based automaker, XP Vehicles, has released information on their new electric car, the Whisper. Powered by either batteries or fuel cells, it has an estimated range of 2500 miles on a single charge. Sure, electric vehicles may not seem extraordinary these days, but the Whisper has one unconventional feature— it's inflatable.

While most of us (at least the group with access to about $975) could easily pick up a nicely kept up version of the much-abused Geo Metro, only 500 lucky souls will ever have a chance to pilot an example fettled by the Solectria Corporation.

A young Canadian inventor named Ben Gulak has created an innovative new electric motorbike that takes some of the lessons learned from the Segway device, but implements them in a much cooler package.