REVA Details Electric Vehicle Remote Charging - Reveals NXR and NXG in Frankfurt

Erm, what?? You buy the car but can't drive it unless you RENT the batteries? If I buy a car, I don't want to pay a monthly fee for a part of the car without which the car won't move. It's like buying a normal car that doesn't come with a fuel tank, but you can rent one if you want to. Edit: Oh I see now that I read the press release. You can buy the batteries with the car, but you still have to pay a "mobility fee" to be able to drive it. What's the point of that? Is it a payment for the customer service or something? If you don't pay the monthly fee, will they immobilize your car?

Lease battery programs are developing so when you travel cross country when you pull in for gas(charge) the batteries are quickly replaced with fully charged ones and your on your way in 10 minutes.

Is 2009 and the year of the ugly car?

What an ugly contraption? How do these designs leave the drawing board? After all the tacky hype reva created, it has made an absolute fool itself with poor marketing ideas (leased batteries?!) LOL...R.I.P Reva.

I am driving the previous version of REVA for the last 4 years in my home town.For the same city commuting I used to pay an amount of 140 euro per month in petrol.Now I pay for the same distance 17 euro in electricity.I did not have any problem for the money saved to pay the batteries and a substantial part of the initial value of the car. Taste is very subjective quality.Mini was not received well in the initial period of presentation and the result at a later stage was something else.Not everybody will buy electric cars and not everybody will like REVA or any other design...and not everybody will see the beauty of those cars.It is not the money and it is not the buying schemes.It is only one very simple virtue.In cities where most of us commute 90% of our times,these cars has no smoging asses...and please ask a chemical engineer to explain to you what those substances coming out from the behind of your beautiful branded expensive engine car you are proud off, mean to yours and to your kids' health!!!

In future insstead of paying for petrol each month we will pay for batteries and electricity. The cost will be the same or less. That makes a lot of sense if it enables up to keep on driving whilst repairing the damage to the planet.