Liberty Electric Cars Claims To Have An EV With A 1,000-Mile Range

Liberty Electric Cars claims to have created a prototype vehicle that can travel 1,000 miles per charge. The prototype may be completed in the next six months. Have you heard this one before?

Ian Hobday, the CEO of Liberty, said, “Our engineering team has recently seen a new type of energy storage that would allow EVs to reach a range equal to, or potentially in excess of, what today’s best internal combustion engines can achieve.” That means a range of at least 300 miles per charge, maybe even up to 500 miles. But 1,000 miles? Seems…optimistic at best.

Now, let us explore the possibility of such a range. Current electric vehicle battery technology which is on the market can achieve up to 300 miles per charge using an 85 kWh lithium-ion battery bank (the most well-equipped variant of the Tesla Model S). I am not saying that Tesla could not have exceeded 300 miles of range, because they could have installed even more batteries in the Model S, but they chose to stop at 85 kWh worth. At some point the extra weight of the battery negates the extra range.

Liberty Electric itself currently sells the E-Range, an all-electric version of the Range Rover with about 200 miles of charge. The cost? About $240,000. So even if Liberty builds a 1,000 mile EV, a little math shows us that it would cost about $1.25 million dollars. That’s just not going to work for anyone.

Without more information, this claim of a 1,000 mile EV seems like bluster and nothing more. We’ll believe it when we see it.

Source: Plugin Cars

Green Automotive to acquire Liberty Electric Cars

US-based Green Automotive Company has signed an agreement to acquire UK-based Liberty Electric Cars Limited. Liberty Electric Cars is a electric vehicle design, engineering and manufacturing company. 

Green Automotive will purchase all of the issued and outstanding stock of Liberty Electric Cars Ltd. and its subsidiary LEC 2, Limited, in exchange for 39,172,178 shares of Green Automotive Company common stock.
Liberty, through its E-Tech division, is involved in research programs for developing next-generation EV solutions, many in partnership with Tier 1 automotive manufacturers. These include:

• The “Deliver” project in which Liberty is working with Volkswagen, Fiat and Michelin to develop a pure electric commercial vehicle.
• The “Motore” project in which Liberty is partnered with Cranfield University, Rolls Royce Electric Machines and Protean aims to develop a rare-earth-free electric motor technology.

Liberty’s engineers have invented and IP-protected innovative electric vehicle (EV) drive train technologies, that can be employed in a wide variety of vehicle platforms (trucks, buses, 4x4, SUV, MPV and pickup trucks) as reveled in its flagship technology demonstrator, the Liberty E-Range—a battery-electric Range Rover.