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So Super It's Unreal

Oreva officials have been close-mouthed about the Super, saying only that the car’s production is on schedule. The owner of the car dealership that has the prototype Oreva Super is also under a vow of silence with regard to the vehicle.

The secrecy doesn’t soothe the skeptics.

Bruce Belzowski, associate director of the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute summarized his feelings on the projected competition between the Tata Nano and the Oreva Super to the Cleantech Group this way: “One [company] actually has a model out there that works and it has technology that everyone understands. The other one sounds like vaporware.”

What Belzowski really wants to know is how a company with seemingly no experience in building cars, much less electric ones, has figured out a way to manufacture such a vehicle and install a lithium-ion battery in it for under $2,500.

“It sounds impossible,” he said.