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According to Renault, the range of its EVs may increase by 30% to 150 miles by 2015; and that by 2025 an all-new chemistry - possibly zinc-air or zinc silver - could boost it to 300 miles per charge. Whilst these are conservative estimates, they are encouraging news because a 150 mile range covers 99% of all car journeys. The sooner we can put an end to cars with engines (or generators, as they are called in the range extenders like the Volt) the better, including those environmental miscreeants plug-in hybrids, which delay the demise of ICE and have large dust-to-dirt footprints. [Update 3 December: a Sydney Morning Herald report quotes VW as expecting 800 km / approaching 500 mile range by 2020].
