EV Innovations started out turning gas powered cars into electric ones. Now it's ready to build one of it's own from scratch with the Liv Inizio.

The obvious benchmark for this car is the Tesla Roadster. So before this electric sports makes its debut next week in New York we've used some preliminary data to make a comparison:

- Performance: Liv Inizio will do 0 to 60 mph in under four seconds; the Tesla Roadster does it in 3.9

- Range: Liv Inizio gets 200 miles from an eight hour charge; the Tesla Roadster gets 224 miles from eight hours

- Pricing: Liv Inizio, $139,000; Tesla Roadster, $101,500

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