"Right now, electric cars are not sustainable," he says. "The average electric car battery pack is four times larger than ours, with one-third the range. If every car in the U.S. had that battery pack, we would need to produce four times more energy to compensate for that. Where is all that energy going to come from?"

The Lit Motors vehicle provides a sustainable alternative that could help curb U.S. dependence on oil.
"New technologies are propelling the world forward," says Kim. "Cars need to catch up."

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