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[email protected] Electric cars ramping up Resistance is futile? Peugeot’s iOn is based on the Mitsubishi i-MiEV Allan Horsley Some 12 manufacturers participated, offer- It has a range of approximately 150 km and ing high efficiency diesel, hybrid and electric can be recharged in around eight hours from a ICTORIAN DRIVERS were given the cars to interested motorists. Online booking of 15 amp power point. opportunity to get behind the wheel of one or more cars was offered with individual The driving experience was something to a new generation, eco friendly motor bookings at 15-minute intervals. behold. With eerie silence both vehicles had Vcar thanks to the “Green Zone Drive” pro- The Green Zone Drive team was set up amazing acceleration; they moved away from gramme established recently by the RACV, the on a specially prepared site in Melbourne’s a stopped position at the traffic lights as fast as Victorian Government and a number of vehicle Docklands precinct, with a hospitability tent any other car and one did not feel left behind manufacturers.