Steve sez, “The demand for powerful consumer electronics batteries (for laptops, cell phones, etc.) is reviving promise for electric vehicles (EV’s). Traditionally, batteries produced for EVs have been limited in capacity and expensive to boot (due to small manufacturing runs). But laptop and cell phone batteries now out-perform these batteries and cost less, so this company (AC Propulsion) has essentially kluged together a boat-load of consumer Li-Ion batteries to produce an EV with a range of 300 miles!”
(Thanks, Steve!)