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Electric cars have been marketed without much success since before the turn of thecentury. In recent years, concern over air pollution caused by the internal combustionengine and the rising cost of gasoline have revived interest in electric cars. CUtherefore decided to test the only two electric cars being sold in any volume in thiscountry: the CitiCar SV-48 and the Elcar 2000. We found major safety and operatingproblems. The CitiCar , made by Sebring-Vanguard, Inc., of Sebring, Fla., cost $2946 delivered toour Auto Test Center in Connecticut. The Elcar, an Italian import distributed in the Elcar Corp., Elkart, md., cost $3475 passenger cars must conform to certain Federal safety standards. But tospur the development of low-emission vehicles, the Government has granted temporaryexemptions from some of those standards to manufacturers of electric cars-withunfortunate cars must provide life-saving protection to occupants in a 30-mph barriercrash, a 30-mph rollover, and a 20-mph side impact from another car.
Electric cars have been marketed without much success since before the turn of the century. In recent years, concern over air pollution caused by the internal combustion
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