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"   Across the country, a handful of car makers continue their quest to bring a market-ready mega-mileage machine to market. The prize: $7.5 million from the X Prize Foundation. Unfortunately for X Prize followers, the New York Auto Show is not shaping up to be much of a battlefield. There is one exception: On Thursday, EV Innovations will unveil the Wave, a curvacious plug-in electric two-seater that the company claims will have a range of up to 200 miles, a top speed of around 80 mph, and start just north of $30,000 when it becomes available to consumers in 2010.   This is far less expensive than the company&amp;#039;s previously announced electric supercar, the Inizio, which can reach 170 mph, has a range of 200 miles between charges and will cost consumers around $139,000 when it hits production late this year or early 2010.   In fact, the company has yet to decide which of its two electric vehicles it&amp;#039;s going to enter in the X-Prize competition. &amp;quot;We have to decide which one we put out there to get all the attention: The Wave, which is a car you can take to work every day, or the more powerful Inizio,&amp;quot; Ron Cerven, EV Innovations&amp;#039; program manager and director of product design, says.   EV Innovations (which used to go by the name Hybrid Technologies), first made a name for themselves by making battery-powered versions of Minis and Mullen GTs. \u2014Seth Porges  RELATED STORIES \u2022 PLUS: 9 Auto X-Prize Teams, Updated  \u2022 EARLIER: 2011 Tesla Model S Concept Technology  \u2022 FOLLOW US: PopMechMag is Now on Twitter!   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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