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Putting the zoom into electric cars

For the first time since the early 20th century, America is seeing a flowering of entrepreneurship in the auto industry. Today at least 11 new electric car companies, each working on a wide range of technologies, have launched or plan to launch models. These upstarts are not modest. They believe they can do what major automakers have failed to do: bring an electric car to the mass market.

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A Toronto company called Zenn sells an electric car and is hoping to build a rival to Aptera, thanks to a radical new power pack from Cedar Park, Texas, startup EEStor.

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