There is a lot of action in the "electric car" scene recently. A few days after GM & Segway introduced their two-wheel two-passenger scooter-car, P.U.M.A., details on more electric cars have begun to surface.

One of these electric vehicles is Peapod, developed by Chrysler's Global Eco Mobility unit. Peapod accommodates up to four people & goes as far as thirty miles on a single charge. Peapod is a Neighborhood Electic Vehicle. This means it can not go on highways & its top speed is limited to 25 miles per hours legally. Peapod has a removable windowed roof to give you the feeling as if you are driving a convertible. It has an iPod dock on its dash & even a trunk for your needs. Peapod is expected to hit the roads by October & its price tag is expected to be around $12,000.

Japanese automaker, Mitsubishi, on the other hand, confirmed that its i-MieV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) electric car will be presented to US market before 2012. A single charge of its lithium-ion batteries will take i-MieV up to 100 miles. Mitsubishi plans to produce 20,000 i-MieVs a year if its partner GS Yuasa can keep up with the demand for lithium-ion electric car batteries. There is no official word on how much Mitsubishi's electric car will cost but it is expected to be around $30,000. Little pricey, huh?

Hybrid Technologies, who changed their name EV Innovations Inc., also introduced two new electric cars. One of them is the Wave, which has a 170-mile range on a single charge & is able to reach a top speed of eighty miles per hour. The other one, Inizio, has a top speed of 170 miles per hour & its range is 200 miles. The prices of these electric cars are $34,900 & $139,000, respectively.