Chinese electric car MilesEV Sedan

In previous posts I had written about how the electric car company Tesla’s choice to manufacture its own cars in San Jose, CA was a huge mistake. I had also written about how the decision by the City of San Jose to give Tesla all sorts of freebies was a dumb idea.

Today I see an article that should send Tesla’s backers scurrying for the hills, and should prompt the mayor of San Jose to pull the plug on the giveaway. The long-promised for Chinese electric car is here, it’s called Miles Electric Vehicles, and it looks pretty viable to me. For $35K (or $55K, not sure yet) you get a sedan that goes 120 miles for $3 worth of electricity. It’s called the Miles XS500 and you can read about it at forbes.com or at autobloggreen.com