Electric Cars For Sale

A number of drivers, especially Toyota Prius owners are increasingly converting their Prius Hybrids into plug in electric cars by installing an extra battery. Though it comes at a hefty price of $10,000, a Watertown based company A123 Systems which started selling it online July onwards, has already sold to 200 hybrid car owners. Six garages in the country have been given the license to install them and all of them have been booked with the job throughout December.

Installing this battery into the Toyota Prius allows the owners to plug in and get it charged like their laptops or cell phones. The Toyota Prius is already recognized as the most fuel efficient car in the United States. A fully charged battery increases its fuel efficiency several times to 100 miles per gallon, over a distance of 40 miles. After that the car goes back to running with its regular fuel efficiency.

But if you take into account the high cost of the battery, it is highly unlikely that car owners would be able to recoup the total cost. In order to do that gas prices would have to go far beyond the recent high of $4 a gallon, or the car would have to travel for over 250,000 kilometers. This makes it wiser to wait for the products of major automakers that have been developing electric cars for sale.