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A coworker pointed this out to me today. (Thanks Pat)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/02/wheego-whip-stencil-580.png (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/02/17/wheego-whip-electric-car-coming-to-u-s-in-may/)

Electric Vehicle Manufacturer Taking Applications from Dealers Now ATLANTA, Feb. 17

ATLANTA, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- WHEEGO ELECTRIC CARS, a division of RTEV, Inc.,
one of the first companies to deliver a full line of recreational and street electric LSVs
(Low Speed Vehicles), today announced the official launch of its U.S. car dealer network.

http://www.youtube.com/v/7aTRH32hj0Q&hl=en&fs=1


Sources:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/
http://rtev.net/wheego/

I posted something on this a while back. Since then, what I've learned is that this is basically a cheap, low-cost chinese knockoff of the Smart. Probably with poor quality construction and equally poor safety.

Nice, but no thanks.