The government takes a more conservative view, crediting the 2013 Leaf with a 75-mile range.
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The Karma's lithium-ion battery is said to deliver a 50-mile range on a full charge.
For comparison, under optimal conditions, the Leaf also has an anticipated 100 mile range.
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The smaller TBM 850 seats six, goes 370mph and flies a 1, 570-mile range on one engine.
He's confident his battery design will deliver the 40-mile range GM demands and last a decade or more.
They cover a 200-mile range--more than the distance from New York to Baltimore.
For example, the 10, 000 mile range of the B-2 (with one refueling) allows it to execute missions worldwide from just three strategically located bases.
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According to the City of York Council, the charging technology can add a 30-mile range to a car's battery within a half hour of use.
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For trainers who only want e-collar functions (and no BarkLimiter), Garmin offers the Delta in a basic configuration with three training configurations (instead of five) and half-mile range.
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Matt Davis of Fiat USA says the rental-car deal, branded as ePass, grew out of brainstorming sessions where company officials debated how to deal with the car's 87-mile range.
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The Ford Focus Electric will be powered by a 23 kWh lithium-ion battery with an estimated 100-mile range that can be recharged by both 120V and 240V power sources.
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Second, unlike the Prius, EV owners have to overcome the range anxiety of owning a vehicle with a 100-mile range without the benefit of a widespread municipal charging infrastructure.
In other words, even a Nissan Leaf (with a 73-mile range) could comfortably get you there and back without recharging for about 9 in every 10 automobile trips taken in the entire country.
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While a battery-shaped indicator lights up to show remaining battery capacity, the mile range indicator fluctuates wildly as it constantly projects how far you can go if you continue on your present course.
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When California briefly mandated the sale of electric vehicles in the early 1990s, their 50-mile range and long charging cycles meant that they failed to attract more than a dedicated core of green-minded motorists.
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You can buy a Ford Focus Electric or Nissan Leaf for that price now and while those are fine cars, their 75-mile range will likely prevent them from being anything other than a niche product for urban greenies.
Now, range anxious EV drivers can pull up Google Maps before leaving the house and plot their daily course around the location of charging stations even though a 100-mile range is more than sufficient for the average driver.
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The Philadelphia 76ers share their facility (the Wells Fargo Center) with the Villanova Wildcats, and North Carolina, Michigan State and Connecticut all have professional basketball teams (Charlotte Bobcats, Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics, respectively) within a 51-100 mile range from where they play their regular season home games.
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The fuel cell and battery powered hybrid taxi provides a 250 mile driving range with rapid refuelling, all within the confines of the body of a conventional London taxi.
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"We are proud C-MAX Energi is the first plug-in hybrid that can deliver a 550-mile overall range and more than 20 miles of electric range as it gives customers great flexibility to commute to work, then take off for a road trip while passing many gas stations along the way, " says Davis.
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They envisioned employing a fleet of drones with a two kilogram payload capacity and a six mile flight-range.
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If you want an electric vehicle with a 200-mile-plus range you have no choice today but a Tesla.
Depending on the water level, the whitewater on the 7.3-mile stretch can range from nearly Class III rapids to rocky riverbeds that require walking, he said.
But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.
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Powered by battery, the Black Hornet is reported to have a range of about half a mile (800m), a top speed of 22mph (35kph) and can fly for up to 30 minutes.
The 50mw plants will be situated near the Salt Range, a 100-mile coal belt that runs east to west and is midway between Lahore and Islamabad, while the 200mw plant will be in southern Punjab in Dera Ghazi Khan.
At the beginning of the summit tests, Koenig's team will keep GROVER close to camp and communicate with it via Wi-Fi within a three-mile (4.8-kilometer) range.
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Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 1 mile).
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