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Gearing Up: Electric Cars Are Fast Becoming Real

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By Matt Mabe

Gearing Up: Electric Cars Are Fast Becoming Real

They're out of the gate. All-electric, plug-in passenger cars are accelerating out of showrooms and into the streets. Automakers around the world, eager to tackle rising fuel prices and carbon emissions, have launched research and development campaigns to make practical travel by exclusively electric cars a reality. The biggest challenge now is to build an electrical infrastructure capable of keeping them running.

Click ahead for a virtual tour of some of the electric cars already available—and some that are still just concepts.