AMP all-electric car available for demonstration

Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc. (AMP), makers of a 100 percent electric vehicle, took their product to Washington to demonstrate its performance.

AMP builds all-electric Powertrains, using lithium phosphate batteries to convert GM Saturn Skys into zero-emissions vehicles.

Online orders are now being filled, and the first deliveries are scheduled for 2009.

During the trip, AMP president and CEO Jack Kuntz also submitted a Section 136 loan application to the U.S. Department of Energy, hoping to get funding from the $25 billion program to further develop the technology.

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