It's like a Volt with a rotary engine from Audi. But still a lot like a Volt.
It used to be that the phrases "fun to drive" and "electric car" were mutually exclusive, with no real hope for reconciliation—heck, seeing the phrases "regular production" and "electric car" so close together is still a novelty. Then came the Tesla Roadster. Now, witness the 525-hp Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell, which its maker will sell to the driving public at a speculated quarter-million dollars per, and the somewhat cheaper but still out-of-reach Audi e-tron sports car, which should cost about $150,000 when production begins in 2012.
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