Miles Electric Vehicles Introduces XS500 Electric Sedan

Nov 22

Written by: Aaron Turpen   932 views    

Published on November 22nd, 2008 in Electric Cars, Featured

Miles XS500 Electric Sedan

Want a normal-looking car that’s all-electric and can actually do highway speeds and longer ranges? Maybe you also want it to cost less than $35,000 and seat five? All of this assumes you don’t work for the government (Condoleeza Rice) or have your own TV show (Jay Leno) so that you can afford a Tesla Roadster.

Come to think of it, I tell pretty good jokes and know some people in government…hmm…

Miles XS500 Electric Sedan

Oh ya, the rest of you. OK, well, you can probably get your wishes thanks to Miles Electric Vehicles. Yep, move over Chevy Volt, meet the all-electric XS 500!

While not a lot of information is forthcoming on this one, it’s likely to hit the market sometime in late 2009 as federal highway approval and final battery testing, on the six prototypes built so far, are happening as I type.

Miles XS500 Electric Sedan

The car’s projected price tag is in the $30,000-$35,000 range with an 80mph top speed and an average range-per-charge of 120 miles (at 60mph average speed). Full charge time takes about 6-7 hours on a normal 110v outlet.

The car has all the features you’d expect from a full-size automobile, including A/C and heating, power seats, power windows, a sunroof, and an AM/FM CS stereo system. As far as safety is concerned, the XS 500 will fully conform to or exceed U.S. NHTSA standards, and early tests indicate an above average overall N-CAP safety rating.

Excited yet? Me too. Now it’s just a question of when and where it’ll become available. At those numbers, I can actually afford one without selling out to the government or big media. I’ll, uhh, keep my integrity (this means “stay poor”) AND drive electric.

Check out the Miles Electric Vehicles website here.

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6 Responses to “Miles Electric Vehicles Introduces XS500 Electric Sedan”

  1. flightdreamz said on November 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    Under $35,000 and a “normal” sized sedan?! I’ll take one!

  2. Christ said on November 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    This is the future. Save the earth! It is not very expensive and the charge time is good. This is my next car!

  3. website design said on December 1st, 2008 at 3:42 am

    I thought, electric, good distance, decent top speed, and affordable wasn’t possible. Good job…

  4. Cynic said on May 17th, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Yep, move over Volt. Another overpriced EV that is has its release date pushed back again and again to keep the gullible happy.

  5. Cornflake said on May 17th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Dream on.

    In so-called green America, the free market has not managed to convince a SINGLE manufacturer to sell even ONE affordable EV since the RAV4 EV was forced on them in the 90s. Instead, you hypocrites all bought SUVs by the million, while in poll after poll you said you cared about the environment.

  6. Aaron Turpen said on May 18th, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Since America hasn’t had a “free market” in a century, I guess your analysis is a little off, Cornflake. The oil lobby and the UAW’s continued forcing of auto makers to raise costs higher and higher combined with the inability of American automakers to (because of these things) build smaller cars profitably, the focus went towards truck platforms.

    Now they’re paying the price–all of them.

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