By: Danielle Ulman

If electric cars are the wave of the future, Genovation Cars just took another step closer to that future.

The Rockville-based designer and builder of environmentally friendly cars has enlisted Tata Technologies, an affiliate of India’s Tata Motors that helped with the creation of the tiny and cheap Nano car, to design and prototype its G2 model, an electric car with a sustainable frame.

The car will include the research that Genovation used to develop its G1 model, which converted Ford Focus cars into electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The car would be manufactured with green materials — the company is looking into bamboo, flax seed and resin from soybeans — and recycled steel.

Genovation’s eventual goal is to become one of the top providers of electric vehicles in the United States — and make a profit selling around 1,000 cars a year by departing from the Detroit model.

Photo of the G1 from Greencar.com